by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Sometimes the wrong medicine can make a struggling patient far sicker than he would have been had he been allowed to recover naturally. Western medicine began with the premise that the physician either must know how to cure the patient or simply leave him alone — but above all not make him worse through harmful treatment. Continue reading “Obama’s Economic Quackery”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
The revolutions against Arab autocracies — dubbed the “Arab Spring” — have been greeted in America with bipartisan celebration. Continue reading “The Arab Winter Approaches”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
It’s More than Just PC
The traditionalist critique of the university — I made it myself over thirteen years ago in the co-authored Who Killed Homer? — was that somewhere around the time of the Vietnam War, higher education changed radically for the worse. Continue reading “The Fannie and Freddie University”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Recently, an open mike caught French president Nicolas Sarkozy and American president Barack Obama jointly trashing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Sarkozy scoffed, “I cannot stand him. He’s a liar.” Continue reading “Why Does America Defend the Weak and Small?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The presidency of Barack Obama is full of funny things that need not follow any sort of logic. Continue reading “Obama’s Imaginarium”
by Victor Davis Hanson
As the Thebans help the freed helots build their new city of Messenê, the Argive general Epitêles decides his men are no longer needed and will head home to Argos, leaving the Thebans and Messenians to their work: Continue reading “The End of Sparta: An Excerpt”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
Editor’s Note: These postings were taken from Jihad Watch and Pajamas Media, internet journals in which the author posts frequently. Ibrahim’s observations below remind us of the depths of Dante’s Inferno where the three-headed devil masticates the worst criminals of Dante’s imagination: Brutus and Cassius are second only to Judas. Among Muslims, second only to Christians are women and secularists.
Muslim Brotherhood: Only “Drunks, Druggies and Adulterers” Reject Sharia
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood just made a few assertions that have ruffled the nation’s secular and Christian populace. Continue reading “In the Jaws of Sharia: The Liberal and the Temptress”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The moral and intellectual corruption of American universities has recently manifested itself in the California State University system, the largest in the country. Continue reading “Despicable Israel Libels on Display in California Universities”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
William Shawcross, the British journalist, historian, and human rights advocate — once a fierce critic of the Nixon-Kissinger years, now a defender of the West’s struggle against radical Islam — has written the best book yet on the dilemmas Western governments face in dealing with Islamic terrorists.1 Continue reading “The American Way of War”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are in a fresh round of declinism — understandably, after borrowing nearly $5 trillion in less than three years and having very little to show for it. Continue reading “What America Does Best”