by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Why did radical Islamic terrorists kill almost 3,000 Americans a decade ago? Continue reading “Myth and Reality After 9/11”
Author: victorhanson
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
The Other California
by Bruce S. Thornton
City Journal
In 1973, as I was going through customs in New York after spending the summer bumming around Italy and Greece, the customs agent looked at my passport and said with a Bronx sneer, “Bruce Thornton, huh? Is that one of them Hollywood names?” Continue reading “The Other California”
Post-9/11 -Isms and -Ologies: A Look Back at a Decade
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Never-ending Day
Like millions of Americans, I did not sleep much on the night of September 11. Continue reading “Post-9/11 -Isms and -Ologies: A Look Back at a Decade”
The Cheney Memoir: Hype and Reality
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
I’m about halfway through the new Cheney memoir, In My Time, and it does not at all resemble the media’s description of it — a highly controversial book preoccupied with scoring points against rivals — which suggests that many of those who have written about it have not read it. Continue reading “The Cheney Memoir: Hype and Reality”
What’s Off the Table in 2012?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
What should we not expect during next summer’s presidential campaign, given what was put off limits in 2008 and later? Continue reading “What’s Off the Table in 2012?”
God Is Not Dead
A Review of Cornelius Hunter’s trilogy.
by Terry Scambray
The Chesterton Review
Darwin’s God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil (Brazos Press, 2001, 189 pp.)
Darwin’s Proof: The Triumph of Religion over Science (Brazos Press, 2003, 168 pp.)
Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism (Brazos Press, 2007, 170 pp.) Continue reading “God Is Not Dead”
Reading Between the Lines
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
When reading Western reports dealing with Islam, one must learn to read between the lines. Many of these reports do state the actual facts; but without providing proper context, Western readers are often left to interpret the information according to their own understandings. Continue reading “Reading Between the Lines”
Soviet Spies
by Victor Davis Hanson
Ricochet.com
Editor’s Note: This is a response on a discussion board a Ricochet. Continue reading “Soviet Spies”
A Vineyard Too Far
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
By Sunday afternoon, the Gallup tracking poll showed a 17-point spread in the president’s approval rating — 38 percent approval to 55 percent disapproval. Continue reading “A Vineyard Too Far”
Liberating Libya for Jihadists
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The fall of Muammar Gaddafi is making some in the West giddy with the usual “Arab Spring” wishful visions of democracy and freedom flourishing throughout the Muslim Middle East, even as the last binge of democratic intoxication, the fall of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, has left the hangover of a newly empowered Muslim Brotherhood, increasing assaults on Christian Copts, growing anti-Americanism, and terrorist attacks on Israel originating in Egypt and including Egyptian citizens among the attackers. Continue reading “Liberating Libya for Jihadists”