From ancient Greece to modern Iraq, history shows us that fear, honor and self-interest drive hostilities between the states. by Victor Davis Hanson Los Angeles Times Modernists like to believe that we have entered an entirely new era of armed conflict. To some military thinkers, it’s the primordial nature of the terrorists’ beheadings, suicide bombings […]

How the violence in Iraq will end. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Western media was relatively quiet about the quite amazing news from the recent trifecta in Iraq: very little violence on election day, Sunni participation, and approval of the constitution. Those who forecasted that either the Sunnis would boycott, or that

Party politics seems only to frustrate the citizenry. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Americans — never more affluent or privileged — are in a gloomy mood. Share This

More unjustified negativity on the war in Iraq. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In a recent Los Angeles Times op-ed entitled “American Debacle” Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national-security adviser to President Carter, begins with: Share This

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

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

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