by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
With the encouraging news of change in the air in Lebanon, Egypt, and the Gulf, coupled with a solidification of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has arisen a new generation of doubters. Not all are simply gnashing their teeth that their prognostications of doom were wrong, but rather often reflect genuine worries about the viability of emerging democracy in the Middle East. Continue reading “Don’t Stop Now: Opening Pandora’s Democratic Box”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
Victor responded to some questions from Idris A. Ahmed, editor of Al-watanNewspaper, a daily Saudi news paper.
1. How do you see the world Without the U.S.?
A descent into regional power blocks and zones of influence that would eventually impair the present global system of trade and commerce. Continue reading “An Audience with Saudi Arabia”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
His new Middle East neighborhood cannot make Syria’s dictator Bashar Assad very happy. Turkey is democratic to his north. A million Arabs vote in Israel to the south. Palestinians are near civil war to establish democratic rule — their own terrorists more a threat to the newly elected Abu Abbas than are Israeli tanks. Continue reading “The Noose Tightens”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
A review of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, by Bat Ye’or. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 384 pages, $23.95 Continue reading “The Civilization of Dhimmitude”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
Dr., Native American, original artist, serious scholar, combat veteran, highly recruited and sought-after academic, ex-Weatherman mentor: How many — if any — of these seven faces of our real-life Dr. Lao are true? Continue reading “Does Ward Churchill Even Exist?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Sometime in the 1960s there arose a new home-grown distrust of the United States, followed by an erosion of faith in the values of the West. Perhaps the culprit was the fiasco in Vietnam or the rise of a trendy multiculturalism that followed from it. Continue reading “America’s New Discontents”
by Victor Davis Hanson
The American Enterprise
“The policy of the United States is to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world…. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.” Continue reading “Democracy Is Now the Realistic Policy”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The effort to remove fascists in the Middle East and jump-start democracy, for all its ups and downs, has been opposed not just by principled critics who bristled at tactics and strategy, but also by peculiarly vehement cynics here and abroad — whose disgust was so often in direct proportion to their relative political impotence. Continue reading ““Little Eichmanns” and “Digital Brownshirts””
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
America was created by rural people. Perhaps 95 percent of its first citizens were farmers when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Now, despite all the talk of a “rural renaissance,” less than 1 percent are—even as we are awash in food and next year will become a net food importer for the first time in our history. Continue reading “A World Gone By”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Los Angeles Times
The British Seaborne Empire by Jeremy Black (Yale University Press: 420 pp.)
To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur Herman (HarperCollins: 648 pp.) Continue reading “Honor and the British Navy”