August 2010

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Behind the anger over the Arizona immigration mess, the Ground Zero mosque, the economy, and the new directions in foreign policy are some recurring general themes that reverberate in each particular new controversy. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Historian Barbara Tuchman characterized the events leading up to World War I as the “Guns of August.” Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Are We Tottering? Societies can sometimes implode abruptly, like the Mycenaeans from mysterious causes, the Aztecs before Cortés, or the Zulu nation in 1879 — or gradually and insidiously, such as Rome in the latter fifth century BC or Britain between 1946 and 1960. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner One might understand why Newsweek recently sold for a dollar and apparently went the way of Harper’s from David A. Graham’s “The Islam Idiots.” Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The president of the United States has it hard enough without needlessly wading into, and fanning, local controversies. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The recent controversies over the Ground Zero mosque and Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law are windows into our collective souls. Think of the paradoxes. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Almost everything about the proposed Ground Zero mosque was cynically brilliant. Share This

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The postmortem of the Sherrod affair will prove it to have been a net negative for the Obama administration — and not just because of its herky-jerky reaction to various reported and then re-reported statements. Share This