by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In classical Athens, public life became dominated by clever and smart-sounding sophists. These mellifluous “really wise guys” made money and gained influence by their rhetorical boasts to “prove” the most amazing “thinkery” that belied common sense. Continue reading “The New Sophists”
by Victor Davis Hanson
City Journal (Autumn 2010)
As the world steadily grows more urbanized, with 50 percent of its population no longer rural, it is more important than ever to ask how cities either perish or manage to survive. Continue reading “The Destiny of Cities”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Ricochet.com
The Cold War is over. Why on earth should we expend American blood and treasure to defend South Korea? George Washington warned us about this kind of entanglement. Why should we expend American blood and treasure to defend South Korea? (Ricochet member Kenneth) Continue reading “Why America Must Defend South Korea”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Ricochet.com
We will see more of the same in 2011 in Mexico. The drug cartel killing spree raises a number of less discussed considerations. Continue reading “What to Expect From Mexico in 2011”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Ricochet.com
I would like to know if Victor sees any merit in the president’s attempt to appeal to ordinary Muslims via his bully pulpit? Does celebrating Ramadan in the White House or wishing Persians Happy New Year accomplish anything that can aid our efforts in the Middle East and elsewhere? If not, is it a matter of degree? (Ricochet member Trace Urdan) Continue reading “A US Foreign Policy Marked by Competence and Strength”
by Bruce S. Thornton
RightNetwork.com
One of the pleasures of reading the New York Times is spotting the myriad ways liberal ideology shapes stories and presents as fact what is a debatable supposition. Global warming, for example, is a “crisis” about which the Timeshas already made up its mind. Continue reading “Anatomy of a Media Bias: Nothing’s More Closed Than a Colonized Mind”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Why do millions of Mexican nationals see America as racist, exploitative — and worth everything to get to and stay in? Continue reading “The Manhattan Project of Illegal Immigration”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
It’s All Greek to Us
In very un-Icelandic fashion, last week protestors in Athens tried to blow up a downtown courthouse. Continue reading “Raging Against “Them””
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The current debt, recession, wars, and political infighting have depressed Americans into thinking their country soon will be overtaken by more vigorous rivals abroad. Yet this is an American fear as old as it is improbable. Continue reading “The American 21st Century”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Middle East Quarterly
Review of Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam across the Centuries by Tarif Khalidi (New York: Doubleday, 2009. Pp. 327). Continue reading “The Face of Muhammad”