by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Decline is a Choice
As the summer winds down, there is more and more talk of decline in the air. Continue reading “We Are Not Greece”
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.
Iraq Through the Looking Glass
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Most Americans will support President Obama’s call for patience in Afghanistan and his policy of continuing the long-planned drawdown in Iraq. Continue reading “Iraq Through the Looking Glass”
America–Compared to What?
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
While America debates whether a “bridge-building” Imam Rauf should erect his $100-million, 13-story outreach “Islamic complex” (is the name “Cordoba House” now officially to be dropped? And if so, could Mr. Rauf or the media explain why?) next to Ground Zero, Islam seems to be at war with most of the rest of the world, or perhaps vice versa. Continue reading “America–Compared to What?”
The Sources of American Anger
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Behind the anger over the Arizona immigration mess, the Ground Zero mosque, the economy, and the new directions in foreign policy are some recurring general themes that reverberate in each particular new controversy. Continue reading “The Sources of American Anger”
The Dangerous Dog Days of Summer
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Historian Barbara Tuchman characterized the events leading up to World War I as the “Guns of August.” Continue reading “The Dangerous Dog Days of Summer”
With a Whimper or a Bang–or Not at All?
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Are We Tottering?
Societies can sometimes implode abruptly, like the Mycenaeans from mysterious causes, the Aztecs before Cortés, or the Zulu nation in 1879 — or gradually and insidiously, such as Rome in the latter fifth century BC or Britain between 1946 and 1960. Continue reading “With a Whimper or a Bang–or Not at All?”
The Allawi Dance
The Iraqi minister’s new book quivers and vacillate on Islamic culture.
by Raymond Ibrahim
Middle East Quarterly
A review of The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali A. Allawi (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 304 pp.). Continue reading “The Allawi Dance”
‘Islam Idiots’?
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
One might understand why Newsweek recently sold for a dollar and apparently went the way of Harper’s from David A. Graham’s “The Islam Idiots.” Continue reading “‘Islam Idiots’?”
Top Muslims Condemn Ground Zero Mosque as a ‘Zionist Conspiracy’
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
In a recent article, I argued that the Ground Zero mosque is counterproductive to Islam. Continue reading “Top Muslims Condemn Ground Zero Mosque as a ‘Zionist Conspiracy’”
Please, No More Teachable Moments
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The president of the United States has it hard enough without needlessly wading into, and fanning, local controversies. Continue reading “Please, No More Teachable Moments”