The First Clash of Civilization
by Victor Davis Hanson Times Literary Supplement Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the West by Tom Holland (Little, Brown: 418pp.) Share This
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The Trenches of the Culture Wars
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Welcome to the trenches of the culture wars, where academic notions of political correctness, multiculturalism and cultural relativism meet the brawling American street. Share This
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The Quiet Consensus on Iraq
The more they argue, the more they sound the same. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Some 30 months after the removal of Saddam Hussein, an unspoken consensus is emerging about Iraq. Share This
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Thalatta! Thalatta!
by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion In spring 401 B.C., amid the detritus of the recently ended twenty-seven-year-long war between Athens and Sparta, about 13,000 Greek mercenary soldiers marched eastward in the pay of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger. The Greeks weren’t quite sure where they were ultimately headed. Most of them at
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Al Qaeda’s Offensive Rhetoric: What Does Al-Qaeda Ultimately Want?
by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Al-Qaeda has shrewdly seen to it that, along with the sword, they also employ the pen in their Holy War. Share This
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Conflicted Europe
To build confidence Europe needs to stand alone. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the 2000 elections, George W. Bush became president without a majority vote. Many Europeans snickered at the sorry spectacle of the world’s oldest continuous democracy devolving into Third-World election chaos. Few critics cared to hear about the nature of
Saddam in 2005!
Just imagine a different Iraq… by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Saddam promises more bounties for suicide bombers in Rather interview Share This
Ivory Cower
University presidents have lost their dignity. by Victor Davis Hanson Claremont Review of Books Whether or not you agreed with them, university presidents used to be dignified figures on the American scene. Share This
Today’s Euro-USA Split Will Persist
by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise The new chasm between Europe and the United States seems to widen still — even as transatlantic diplomats assure us that it has narrowed — despite a common heritage and a supposedly shared goal of global democracy, free markets, and defeating terrorists. Share This
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Chaos in Gaza
Abbas must defeat terrorists to avoid gangland politics. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the Israelis’ recent pullout from the Gaza Strip, chaos broke out. Greenhouses that had been purchased by international agencies for future Palestinian use were ransacked by the beneficiaries. Violent fights over looted equipment escalated among squatters, the government and