Why the government should stop subsidizing agri-business. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The European Union says it’s now considering reducing agricultural subsidies for farmers (if the United States does as well), and our government, to its credit, is calling the E.U.’s bluff. The U.S. has proposed cutting farm subsidies here by 60 percent […]
Iraq conflict shares uncanny likenesses with the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson National Post Listen to what the talking heads are saying, and it’s easy to believe that we have entered an entirely new era of armed conflict. Share This
The plague of Islamism keeps on spreading. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Either the jihadists really are crazy or they apparently think that they have a shot at destabilizing, or at least winning concessions from, the United States, Europe, India, and Russia all at once. Share This
We need to get serious about keeping our enemies out. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal In September, federal prosecutors charged illegal alien Mahmoud Maawad, 29, with wire fraud and fraudulent use of a Social Security number. Share This
Why our new idealism is enlightened Jacksonianism. by Victor Davis Hanson Commentary Magazine According to opinion polls, most Americans are now critical of the President’s foreign policy. They are uncertain not merely over the daily fare of explosions in Iraq. Share This
Godless materialism menaces the fate of the West. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The past week Muslim mobs besieged Christians in Egypt, defacing six churches and threatening publicly the Coptic Church’s highest cleric. Share This
Why U.S. critics turn a blind eye to atrocities by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services To paraphrase the Ancient Greeks, it is easy to be moral in your sleep. Abstract ethics or soapbox lectures demanding superhuman perfection mean little without deeds. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson New York Times As the aggregate number of American military fatalities in Iraq has crept up over the past 13 months — from 1,000 to 1,500 dead, and now to 2,000 — public support for the war has commensurately declined. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For good or evil, George W. Bush will have to cross the Rubicon on judicial nominations, politicized indictments, Iraq, the greater Middle East, and the constant frenzy of the Howard Dean wing of the Democratic party — and now march on his various adversaries as never before. Share
Americans need to muster the necessary grit to win. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The stories about the video of US troops burning the bodies of dead Taliban are disgusting––but not because of anything our troops may have done to the corpses of fanatical murderers. Share This