October 2006
The Pseudo-Histories of the Iraq War
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Three recent books about the “fiasco” in Iraq — Cobra II by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor, State of Denial by Bob Woodward and just plainFiasco by Tom Ricks — have attracted a lot of attention, and sales. All three well-written exposés repeat the now well-known argument that our government’s incompetence and arrogance …
The New Old Eco-Pessimism
by Victor Davis Hanson The American Spectator The release of Al Gore’s environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth — and its attendant criticism that our heating planet arises out of Western pathology — harkens back to a long tradition of gloom and doom in Western thought and art. Share This
The Shifting Debate over Illegal Immigration
by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services When I wrote Mexifornia more than three years ago, much of the criticism came from the academic and open-borders left. The memoir was considered insensitive in our politically correct age for complaining that it was not wise or moral that millions were here illegally from Mexico. Share This
Traitors to the Enlightenment
Europe turns its back on Socrates, Locke, et al. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The first Western Enlightenment of the Greek fifth-century B.C. sought to explain natural phenomena through reason rather than superstition alone. Ethics were to be discussed in the realm of logic as well as religion. Share This