“I Have A Plan”–on and on and on… by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers John Kerry proved tonight that he is a steady, glib, and adept debater who offers a fare of wonkish, comprehensive answers ad nauseam that can awe an off-guard opponent buried beneath facts, Clinton-like instant recall, and classical Ciceronian rhetorical skills. Indeed, we saw all …
by Victor Davis Hanson The Times Literary Supplement A review of: Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past by Paul Cartledge (341 pp., Macmillan. £18.99) Alexander: Destiny and Myth by Claude Mossé (244 pp., Edinburgh University Press. £49.99.) Alexander the Conqueror: The Epic Story of the Warrior Kingby Laura Foreman (213 pp., Da Capo. £19.99.) …
Things are coming to a head in the Middle East. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online From the various insurgencies of the Peloponnesian War to the British victory over Communist guerrillas in Malaya, there remain constants across 2,500 years of time and space that presage victory or defeat. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson This series written for Private Papers will appear in four parts. Part Four Hating Bush, cultural relativism and the war against the terrorists If the new hatred of George Bush is the natural expression of an elite that blurs truth and fiction, word and deed, then anger at a powerful America itself also …
by Victor Davis Hanson This series written for Private Papers will appear in four parts. Part Three The wages of postmodernism, or when facts do not exist, we can invent our own reality Remember the preexisting landscape of postmodern thinking of the last two decades that has dominated the intelligentsia, specifically the Foucauldian notion that there …
An anatomy of flip-flopping. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online There is a logic to Senator Kerry’s flip-flopping that transcends his political opportunism: He is simply a captive of the pulse of the battlefield, without any steady vision or historical sense that might put the carnage of the day into some larger tactical, strategic, or …