Welcome Back, Europe

Reentering history’s arena. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The scheduled partial U.S. troop withdrawals from Europe were long overdue; some of us had become shrill and hoarse in calling for them over the past few years. Share This

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Challenging Darwinian Fundamentalism

by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Uncommon Dissent. Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, ed. William A. Dembski (ISI Books) Share This

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On Loathing Bush

It’s not about what he does. by Victor Davis Hanson For now Americans seem to be split 50-50 over the reelection of George W. Bush. Such a hotly contested election is hardly new. We saw races just as close in 1960, 1968, and 1976. Share This

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If the Dead Could Talk

They’d teach us a thing or two about war. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The last two weeks I have been following the route of the American Army’s drive from Normandy into Germany in 1944-5. Share This

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A Return to Childhood: The New Immaturity

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I would never have imagined that journalists, academics, actors, artists, and the intelligentsia in general would have so opposed the end of dictatorship and promotion of democracy abroad. Share This

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Embedded and Elitist Left

The Long March through Schools of Journalism by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers If you want a good example of the “long march through the institutions” undertaken by sixties leftists after they left school, look no further than the career of Orville Schell, dean of Berkeley’s School of Journalism. Share This

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If the Dead Could Talk

They’s teach us a thing or two about war. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The last two weeks I have been following the route of the American Army’s drive from Normandy into Germany in 1944-5. It is quite something to visit Aachen, Mainz, the Hürtzen forest, Bastogne, Omaha Beach, and Pointe du Hoc,

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Hedging on Iraq

Which side will Americans choose to be on? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online What exactly do we think is going on in Iraq? The Democratic platform hedges on the war, suggesting that reasonable people can argue over the need for last year’s intervention — as if Dennis Kucinich and Joe Lieberman have only

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History’s Verdict: The Summer of 1944 and 2004

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online About this time 60 years ago, six weeks after the Normandy beach landings, Americans were dying in droves in France. Share This

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Allies, Friends, Neutrals, or Enemies?

by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers For all the mayhem in the Sunni Triangle, and for all our mishaps at trying to reconstruct a pathological society reeling from 30 years of mass murder, we are now seeing the emergence of new civilized beginnings in Iraq. Share This

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