by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Not long ago Pepsi Cola’s chief operating officer, Indra Nooyi, gave anaddress to the graduating class at Columbia Business School. In it, she metaphorically likened America to the middle finger on the global hand. Continue reading “Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites: From Hypocrisy to Tedium”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Moveon.org, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” Anonymous, Richard Clark and now the Newsweek story about alleged desecration of the Koran — all these sensations of the day have been used to proclaim the supposed sins of the American administration in the Middle East. Continue reading “The Caricature and Reality of George Bush”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
One recent Newsweek story alleged — or fabricated — that a single Koran was desecrated by an American soldier in Guantanamo Bay. Continue reading “Our Two-Front Struggle”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Historically Speaking
The following essay appears in Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society, (March/April 2005,Vol. VI, No. 4) Continue reading “War Myths: An Exchange”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
Last week riots broke out in Afghanistan and Pakistan over an unfounded rumor, irresponsibly published by Newsweek magazine, that an American interrogator had flushed a Koran down the toilet. Continue reading “Suicidal Tendencies in the West”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
Recently, in response to “Remembering World War II,” readers from the Netherlands wrote to suggest that my reference to “thousands” of Dutch protesting President Bush’s arrival in Holland was in error, and contradicted their own first-hand observations, two of which estimated somewhat more than 100 protestors. Continue reading “Footnote”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Los Angeles Times
Open borders are a disaster. They undermine respect for the law, imperil homeland security, allow Mexico to export its apparently unwanted people rather than embrace much-needed economic reform, and preclude unionization by poorer, entry-level American workers. Continue reading “A Quick Fix–Do Your Own Dishes”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Tenure in our universities is simply unlike any other institution in American society. Take the case of Ward Churchill at the University of Colorado. Because of his inflammatory slander of the September 11 victims, the public turned its attention to his status. Continue reading “Reconsidering Tenure”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Wall Street Journal
This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal on May 9, 2005.
President Bush is in Moscow’s Red Square today, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945. Less than four years earlier, Hitler had declared war on the “cowboys” of the U.S. following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Continue reading “How the ‘Cowboys’ of the West Defeated the Nazis”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
A shorter version of this essay recently appeared in the National Post (Toronto).
We must be careful in warning about an ‘energy crisis,’ since past Cassandras-of-doom have been habitually proven wrong by new oil finds and continual fuel savings through novel technologies. Continue reading “Energy Compromises?”