A new saga in the assault on academic freedom unravels by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers If you’ve ever wondered how American universities can continue to allow political advocacy and indoctrination to flourish in their classrooms, consider the recent controversy over Columbia University’s department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC). Share This
If the president is willing to take risks abroad, why won’t he do it at home? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Recent developments in the Middle East — whether democratic unrest in Lebanon, Syrian vows to keep within its own borders, promises of elections in Egypt, or Sunni clerics’ professions that they may
Dealing with suicide bombers–60 years ago by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sixty years ago, the United States military invaded Okinawa on April 1, 1945, the last bastion of the Japanese maritime empire that stood in the way of an assault on the mainland. Share This
Couldn’t evil be explained by choice? by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The commentary on the recent murder of 9 people by a teen-aged gunman at a Minnesota Indian reservation school tells us as much about our cultural dysfunctions as do the killings themselves. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online With the encouraging news of change in the air in Lebanon, Egypt, and the Gulf, coupled with a solidification of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has arisen a new generation of doubters. Not all are simply gnashing their teeth that their prognostications of doom were wrong, but
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Victor responded to some questions from Idris A. Ahmed, editor of Al-watanNewspaper, a daily Saudi news paper. 1. How do you see the world Without the U.S.? A descent into regional power blocks and zones of influence that would eventually impair the present global system of trade and commerce. Share
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services His new Middle East neighborhood cannot make Syria’s dictator Bashar Assad very happy. Turkey is democratic to his north. A million Arabs vote in Israel to the south. Palestinians are near civil war to establish democratic rule — their own terrorists more a threat to the newly elected
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers A review of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, by Bat Ye’or. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 384 pages, $23.95 Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Dr., Native American, original artist, serious scholar, combat veteran, highly recruited and sought-after academic, ex-Weatherman mentor: How many — if any — of these seven faces of our real-life Dr. Lao are true? Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Sometime in the 1960s there arose a new home-grown distrust of the United States, followed by an erosion of faith in the values of the West. Perhaps the culprit was the fiasco in Vietnam or the rise of a trendy multiculturalism that followed from it. Share This