A Speech Given to the Woodrow Wilson Center on Democracy
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
Part II: Spreading Democracy in the Modern World Continue reading “A World Wonder: Part II”
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.
A World Wonder: Part I
A Speech Given to the Woodrow Wilson Center on Democracy
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
This is a written transcript of recorded remarks given on June 2, 2005 at the Woodrow Wilson Center and made available to Private Papers by the Center.Click here to read an introduction by John Sitilides, Chairman, Board of Advisors, Southeast Europe Project Wilson Council. The speech will appear in three parts: Part I is a short history of democracy, Part II is on spreading democracy in the modern world, and Part III is a question-and-answer session following the speech. Continue reading “A World Wonder: Part I”
Real Lesson of Vietnam
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Under fire, the president addressed the nation Tuesday night to reassure the American people that, for all the depressing news of bombings and death, we are winning the war and a free, democratic Iraq is key to Middle East salvation. Continue reading “Real Lesson of Vietnam”
American Zen
Finessing our supposed friends and enemies.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
While the world debated whether an American guard at Guantanamo really flushed a Koran down a toilet, Robert Mugabe may have bulldozed the homes of 1.5 million Zimbabweans. Continue reading “American Zen”
Korea: Our Bad and Worse Choices
by Victor Davis Hanson
American Enterprise Institute Magazine
The North Korean crisis offers only bad and worse choices for the United States. Kim Jong Il cultivates an air of lunacy, and threatens to nuke the Western critics who are more concerned with the plight of his North Korean people than he is. Continue reading “Korea: Our Bad and Worse Choices”
Hitler, Hitler, Everwhere
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was not alone when he recently compared American behavior at Guantanamo Bay to that of “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime – Pol Pot or others – that had no concern for human beings.” Continue reading “Hitler, Hitler, Everwhere”
The Politics of American Wars
How fascists became the “victims” in the current war.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
For all the talk of imperial America, and our frequent “police actions,” we are hardly militarists. Protected by two-oceans, and founded on the principles of non-interference in Europe’s bloody internecine wars, the United States has always been rightly circumspect about going to war abroad. Continue reading “The Politics of American Wars”
Are They in the Army Now?
Cries of shortfall, exhaustion, and overstretch
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Magazine
Figures on U.S. military recruitment just released for 2005 show that the Army missed its monthly announced goal, achieving only 75 percent of its anticipated enlistments for this May. Continue reading “Are They in the Army Now?”
Liberating the Power of Truth
A Review of Brian C. Anderson’s South Park Conservatives: The Revolt of the Liberal Media Bias.
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
In the sixties, many of us were pulled to the left because we thought it was the ideology of liberty. Continue reading “Liberating the Power of Truth”
Profiles in Diversity
by Victor Davis Hanson
The Claremont Institute
Whether or not you agreed with them, university presidents used to be dignified figures on the American scene. Continue reading “Profiles in Diversity”