Rodney Stark argues the Crusades were defensive wars
by Terry Scambray
The New Oxford Review
A review of God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark (Harper One, 2009, 260 pp.). Continue reading “It Takes an Army”
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.
Tomorrow’s Wars
Massively destructive engagements may again be on the horizon.
by Victor Davis Hanson
City Journal (Winter 2010)
Have we not seen, then, in our lifetime the end of the Western way of war?” Two decades ago, I concluded The Western Way of War with that question. Continue reading “Tomorrow’s Wars”
How Could They Do That in Arizona
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Arizona Hysteria
Racist! Nativist! Profiler! Xenophobe!
Write or say anything about illegal immigration, and one should expect to be called all of that and more — even if a strong supporter of legal immigration. Continue reading “How Could They Do That in Arizona”
Democracy at Risk
by Raymond Ibrahim
American Thinker
A review of The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy by Dr. Walid Phares (Macmillen, 2007, pp. 288) first appeared inThe America Thinker under the book’s title. Continue reading “Democracy at Risk”
What’s Happening with Israel?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Current American relations with our once-staunch ally Israel are at their lowest ebb in the last 50 years. Continue reading “What’s Happening with Israel?”
Obama Tries to Eradicate Radical Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
The Obama administration has just announced its intent to ban all words that allude to Islam from important national security documents. Continue reading “Obama Tries to Eradicate Radical Islam”
An Age of Untruth
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Make no mistake about it, this is a dishonest age. That our daily lies are purportedly advanced in the cause of the common good, nevertheless do not make them any less lies. Continue reading “An Age of Untruth”
Obama and the New Civility
The heated rhetoric of the Bush years gone. A new age has dawned.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
It was sometime early this year that Americans finally learned the rules of proper political discourse — another dividend from the Obama administration. We can all be grateful for our new bipartisan protocols, which will go something like the following. Continue reading “Obama and the New Civility”
Wa Marco Polo an ‘Islamophobe’?
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
If the same exact criticisms being made against Islam today were also made centuries ago, is it reasonable to automatically dismiss them all as “Islamophobic” — that is, as “unfounded fear of and hostility towards Islam,” as the Council on American Islamic Relations [1] would have it? Continue reading “Wa Marco Polo an ‘Islamophobe’?”
How Could We Be So Stupid? Let Us Count the Ways
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
We are going to pile up another $3 trillion in national debt in just the first two years of the Obama administration. If the annual deficit should sink below $1.5 trillion, it will be called fiscal sobriety. Continue reading “How Could We Be So Stupid? Let Us Count the Ways”