by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
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.
The Hard Road to Democracy
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Fostering elections in Iraq is a hard road, well apart from the daily violence of the Sunni Triangle. The autocratic Sunni elite of surrounding countries prefers democracy to fail, warning us that an Iranian-sponsored theocracy will surely follow in Iraq, legitimizing a new Arab Khomeinism. Continue reading “The Hard Road to Democracy”
Has Iraq Weakened Us?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Commentary Magazine
Whatever the results of the elections scheduled for late January in Iraq, a new pessimism about that country, as well as about the larger war on terror, has taken hold in many circles in the United States. Continue reading “Has Iraq Weakened Us?”
Strange Politics: The Rise of the Not-So-Conservative Conservatives
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
There are several issues ahead, such as immigration, deficits of all sorts, and energy dependence, that have the potential to erode conservatives’ appeal to the general public. Continue reading “Strange Politics: The Rise of the Not-So-Conservative Conservatives”
Stories of Imperial Collapse Are Getting Old
by Victor Davis Hanson
New Criterion
The most recent doom-and-gloom forecast by Matthew Parris of the LondonTimes would be hilarious if it were not so hackneyed. After all, Americans long ago have learned to grin any time a British intellectual talks about the upstart’s foreordained imperial collapse. Continue reading “Stories of Imperial Collapse Are Getting Old”
Illegal Immigration Is a Moral Issue
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
As President Bush’s guest worker proposals slog through Congress, new reports suggest that there may be not 8 million, but almost 20 million illegal aliens in the United States, a population larger than most entire states. Continue reading “Illegal Immigration Is a Moral Issue”
Idealism and Its Discontents: Thinking on the Neoconservative Slur
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Neo- is a prefix that derives from the Greek adjective veos — “new” or “fresh” — and in theory it is used inexactly for those conservatives who once were not — or for those who have reinterpreted conservatism in terms of a more idealistic foreign policy that eschewed both Cold War realpolitik and the hallowed traditions of American republican isolationism. Continue reading “Idealism and Its Discontents: Thinking on the Neoconservative Slur”
Will Abbas Bring an End to Conflict?
Abbas must stop the murder of Israelis
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
Just as in the days after the death of Arafat, the Palestinian elections have sparked an outburst of international optimism that perhaps the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can begin to be resolved. Continue reading “Will Abbas Bring an End to Conflict?”
Islamicists hate us for who we are, not what we do
by Victor Davis Hanson
Chicago Tribune Co.
As the third recent Middle East election nears in Iraq, Americans are still puzzled over why well-off Islamic fundamentalists crashed planes into skyscrapers and now send mercenaries to the Sunni Triangle to slaughter us as we sponsor democracy. Continue reading “Islamicists hate us for who we are, not what we do”
Triangulating the War
Yesterday’s genius, today’s fool, tomorrow’s what?
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Reading the pages of foreign-policy journals, between the long tracts on Bush’s “failures” and neoconservative “arrogance,” one encounters mostly predictions of defeat and calls for phased withdrawal — always with resounding criticism of the American “botched” occupation. Continue reading “Triangulating the War”