September 11 reminded us that this country is exceptional. How to we teach that to our kids? by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal All countries seek to inculcate their youth with values that reflect and enhance their national culture—sometimes with horrific results, such as the goose-stepping Hitler Youth or head-nodding madrassas in the Middle East. Share This
A Review of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren Oxford. 419 pp. $30.00 Share This
Why the war on terror is not the Cold War. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online For much of the 1990s the autocrats of the former Yugoslavia seized control of the fragmenting country and initiated an ethnically inspired bloodbath. Share This
A Memorial Day tale about a few very good men. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Yesterday, our rural mail carrier delivered to our farm a ring in a small box — of worn metal, its band cut in half, with a strange signet inset of a Roman legionary. Share This
A glimmer of hope along the Kabul/Palestine/Baghdad Axis. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the Greek myth of Pandora’s Box, after the naïve young girl (named “All the Gifts”) opens the forbidden lid, and a host of evils flies out to plague the world — hope alone is left behind to counterbalance the
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online American professors have long lectured to our students about purported Western biases and cruel misconceptions toward the “Other.” Share This
No matter the era, no mater the weapons, the same old hell. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine War is eternal. It is part of the human condition; it is, as Heraclitus wrote, “the father of us all.” Share This
The landscape of the current war is especially bleak. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Since 9/11 there continues to come a swirl of bizarre images of this conflict — military, political, and cultural. In their aggregate, these symbols finally overwhelm the senses and lead to a profound sense of despair — if also
Frightening extremist rhetoric from America’s critics. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Watching televised clips from a recent pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, along with other such demonstrations over the last few weeks, can be a chilling experience. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Sophocles once wrote a magnificent play about the Greeks’ greatest fighter at Troy after Achilles — Ajax, as irreplaceable in war as he proved expendable in peace. Share This