Historian’s Corner

Victor Davis Hanson The Myth of “Proportionality” As a general rule, in the long history of war, victory is found only by being disproportionate in the use of force. That is a truism so banal as to need little elaboration. When both sides are “proportionate” in their ability to harm their opponents, the result is […]

Victor Davis Hanson Hamas Is an Aberration Without Popular Support? After the forced removal of all Israelis from Gaza in 2005, and the Western-sanctioned election of 2006 that led to Hamas taking power, there has not been a single election. The Middle East rule of “one election, one time” has been in effect for over

Victor Davis Hanson After the heroic late February and early March 2022 salvation of Kyiv by ad hoc Ukrainian forces, ebullience swept the West. Putin and his thuggish invasion were seemingly defeated and the war all but won. Amid such euphoria, billions of dollars of weapons poured into Ukraine. European and American politicos outdid each

Victor Davis Hanson There have been some 170 attacks on American installations spread over Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. And while they are not always identical in mission and nature, our bases’ general agenda is to help governments in the Middle East resist the resurgence of ISIS, a Sunni-derived radical terrorist organization that during the Obama

Victor Davis Hanson The Strangest Case of E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump (continued) 5) As for Carroll’s suits, there were originally no criminal or civil charges filed because obviously the statute of limitations had long since expired. But that changed in 2022 when a new law (“The Adult Survivors Act”) was passed in the

Victor Davis Hanson The Strangest Case of E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump 80-year-old E. Jean Carroll, a former relationship- and sex-advice columnist, just won a huge $83.3 million settlement from Donald Trump in connection with a previous finding that she was “defamed” by Donald Trump. New York is not a hospitable place for any

Victor Davis Hanson When Hatred Is Mainstreamed: The Strange Case of Joy Reid (Continued) 3) Given Reid’s free pass to collectively stereotype groups, mostly all whites in general, why—in an era in which cultural appropriation is a common leftist charge in matters of dress and grooming (do we remember the dreadlocks scandal in which whites

Victor Davis Hanson When Hatred Is Mainstreamed: The Strange Case of Joy Reid Joy Reid is the MSNBC host of her own show, The Reid Out. She is the child of immigrants from the Congo and Guyana. Reid is known as the supposed “heroine of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’,” at least according to The New York Times. Certainly,

Victor Davis Hanson The Unspeakable Precivilizational Barbarity of Hamas (Continued) Israel had vacated Gaza since 2005. A democracy of sorts was promised. Philanthropists sent hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to facilitate the profitable transitional use of abandoned Israeli infrastructure. Literally billions of dollars of international money poured into Gaza, much of it Western,

Victor Davis Hanson The Unspeakable Precivilizational Barbarity of Hamas A recent report from Israel chronicles the tragic, more than two-months-long hunt of a bereaved father, David Tahar, for the head of his slain son, Adir—a young Israeli soldier murdered by terrorists on October 7. Tahar had been warned by Israeli authorities not to view the remains of his