Who exactly was Ronald Reagan? by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers One of the strangest developments following the recent funeral of Ronald Reagan was the emergence of all sorts of “authentic” — and irreconcilable—Reagans. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson (A later version of this essay appears in the current issue ofCommentary Magazine.) How many American troops should be posted in Iraq, beyond the present spike of 135,000—a number that was itself raised from the informally agreed-upon level of 115,000? Share This
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The high costs to free speech of vague legal terms and frivolous cases. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Even as the civil liberties fundamentalists continue to fret over the Patriot Act and the treatment of terrorists in our custody, a more insidious and dangerous assault on our freedom, one that has been going on
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America should give up on the shattered Atlantic Alliance. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Beware of punditry now assuring us that, because we have seen the error of our ways and are now penitent, Europe is back on board. A contrite Mr. Bush — his critics imply — now seeks to smile more
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A shorter version of this essay appeared in a Reagan commemorative issue of National Review Magazine. by Victor Davis Hanson There will be a great deal of blanket praise written about Ronald Reagan in the next few days. Yet I don’t think his legacy will be judged by his unwavering ideological purity. Share This
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Why are we split over the war since 9/11? by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Two views are emerging about our post-September-11 world. One is angry, but also therapeutic—and most often embraced by the Left. I think it goes roughly like this. Removing the Taliban in our initial rage might have for a moment seemed
Our strange relationship with the terrorists continues. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online As long as the mythical Athenians were willing to send, every nine years, seven maidens and seven young men down to King Minos’s monster in the labyrinth, Athens was left alone by the Cretan fleet. The king rightly figured that harvesting
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Media concedes simple truth, not simpleton by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Ronald Reagan’s death in the midst of a hotly contested presidential election has occasioned all manner of oddities. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson Times Literary Supplement Rural Greece Under the Democracy by Nicholas F. Jones Pennsylvania, 2004. xii + 330 $59.95 A version of this review appears in the June 25, 2004 issue of the Times Literary Supplement. Share This
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What our generation might have said a month later in July, 1944 by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Al Gore: General George Marshall—You, you…. You, go now! You approved of it; you signed off; you gave us the Philippines disaster, the B-17 slaughters, and now this. So go! Go, go, now! Share This
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