by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In September and early October 2001 we were warned that an invasion of Afghanistan was impossible — peaks too high, winter and Ramadan on the way, weak and perfidious allies as bad as the Islamists — and thus that the invasion would result in tens of thousands killed […]

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Life is pretty good in the United States now. For all the campaign hysteria about a new Ice Age, jobs are being created. We are recovering from the mess after the late 2000 recession, Wall Street meltdown, and $1 trillion hit from September 11. But there are a

by Victor Davis Hanson San Francisco Chronicle Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were the only two Democrats to be elected president since 1976. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Tuesday’s election was the greatest turnout in American political history, the first majority vote for a president-elect since 1988, and the largest number of ballots cast for a president in our history. What are we to make of it all, besides the obvious fact that the citizens have

In war, the last campaigns are the bloodiest. by Victor Davis Hanson Wall Street Journal A shorter version of this essay appeared in the Wall Street Journal. In singular moments in our history, the security of the United States hinged on a single presidential election. Share This