Cries of shortfall, exhaustion, and overstretch by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine Figures on U.S. military recruitment just released for 2005 show that the Army missed its monthly announced goal, achieving only 75 percent of its anticipated enlistments for this May. Share This
A Review of Brian C. Anderson’s South Park Conservatives: The Revolt of the Liberal Media Bias. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers In the sixties, many of us were pulled to the left because we thought it was the ideology of liberty. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson The Claremont Institute Whether or not you agreed with them, university presidents used to be dignified figures on the American scene. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Japan’s prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, is busy trying to strengthen the American alliance. In recent months, members of his government have announced new joint military arrangements with the U.S. and announced to the South Koreans that, unlike Japan, they are not to be trusted with sensitive American intelligence.
Why the United Nations is sinking fast. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers A review of Tower of Babel. How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos by Dore Gold (Crown Forum, 2004: New York). Share This
Listen and learn from our enemies. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In a single day last week, in various media — the liberal International Herald Tribune and the Washington Post — the following information appeared. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services A group of citizens calling themselves the Minutemen patrols the border looking to stop illegal immigrants from entering the United States. Mexico’s president, Vicente Fox, states that Mexican migrant workers in the U.S. are “are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do.” Share This
The world will soon better appreciate the United States by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Radical global power shifts have been common throughout history. For almost a millennium (800-100 BC) the Greek East, with its proximity to wealthy Asia and African markets and a dynamic Hellenism, was the nexus of Western civilization — before
Failed, useless, dubious, impotent, pernicious, morally exhausted . . . by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Every crisis is an opportunity, a time when the fissures and cracks of received wisdom and worn-out habits of thought are exposed. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The French and Dutch rebuffs of the European Union constitution will soon be followed by other rejections. Millions of proud, educated Europeans are tired of being told by unelected grandees that the mess they see is really abstract art. Share This