A short review of Oliver Stone’s Alexander the Great by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Well, I thought it was simply terrible. The film goes on for nearly three hours, but we hear nothing of what either supporters or detractors of Alexander, both ancient and modern, have agreed were the central issues of his life. Share […]
Culling From Among Mediocre in Hollywood Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson New Criterion, November 2004 A review of Ulysses S. Grant, by Josiah Bunting III (Times Books, 2004) Share This
A Quintessential General Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson A shorter version of this review appears in the current issue of National Review. Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at Home and Abroad. by Paul Hollander, editor (Ivan R. Dee, 388 $28.95) Share This
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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.)
Alexander the Greatest Read More »
How politicized college courses mangle education. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers A review of Ben Shapiro’s Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth. Share This
A Shiv in the Back Read More »
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Uncommon Dissent. Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, ed. William A. Dembski (ISI Books) Share This
Challenging Darwinian Fundamentalism Read More »
by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The Anti-Chomsky Reader, ed. by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Encounter Books) Share This
The Ayatollah of Anti-Americanism Read More »
by Victor Davis Hanson Times Literary Supplement Rural Greece Under the Democracy by Nicholas F. Jones Pennsylvania, 2004. xii + 330 $59.95 A version of this review appears in the June 25, 2004 issue of the Times Literary Supplement. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson New York Post, April 25, 2004 Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 366 pages, $25.95 Share This
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Reviewed by Victor Davis Hanson Appeared in National Review Online, April 19, 2004 Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, by John Lewis Gaddis (Harvard, 160 pp., $18.95) Share This