May 2005

High Noon for High News

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The recent Dan Rather and Newsweek controversies hardly seem connected. But on closer examination, both incidents symbolize what has gone wrong with traditional news organizations. Share This

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Muslims Have Desecrated Bibles and Churches

So what is all the mob angst over the Koran? by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The images of Muslims rampaging over rumors and unproven allegations of “Koran abuse” are troubling — but not because of the behavior of the mobs. Share This

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Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites: From Hypocrisy to Tedium

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Not long ago Pepsi Cola’s chief operating officer, Indra Nooyi, gave anaddress to the graduating class at Columbia Business School. In it, she metaphorically likened America to the middle finger on the global hand. Share This

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The Caricature and Reality of George Bush

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Moveon.org, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” Anonymous, Richard Clark and now the Newsweek story about alleged desecration of the Koran — all these sensations of the day have been used to proclaim the supposed sins of the American administration in the Middle East. Share This

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Our Two-Front Struggle

Pre-modern plus postmodern equals riots in Afghanistan. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online One recent Newsweek story alleged — or fabricated — that a single Koran was desecrated by an American soldier in Guantanamo Bay. Share This

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War Myths: An Exchange

by Victor Davis Hanson Historically Speaking The following essay appears in Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society, (March/April 2005,Vol. VI, No. 4) Share This

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Suicidal Tendencies in the West

Tolerance unreciprocated leaves the West vulnerable. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Last week riots broke out in Afghanistan and Pakistan over an unfounded rumor, irresponsibly published by Newsweek magazine, that an American interrogator had flushed a Koran down the toilet. Share This

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Footnote

Criticism and correction on numbers of protesters in Holland by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Recently, in response to “Remembering World War II,” readers from the Netherlands wrote to suggest that my reference to “thousands” of Dutch protesting President Bush’s arrival in Holland was in error, and contradicted their own first-hand observations, two of which …

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A Quick Fix–Do Your Own Dishes

by Victor Davis Hanson Los Angeles Times Open borders are a disaster. They undermine respect for the law, imperil homeland security, allow Mexico to export its apparently unwanted people rather than embrace much-needed economic reform, and preclude unionization by poorer, entry-level American workers. Share This

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Reconsidering Tenure

Its time has come by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Tenure in our universities is simply unlike any other institution in American society. Take the case of Ward Churchill at the University of Colorado. Because of his inflammatory slander of the September 11 victims, the public turned its attention to his status. Share This

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