by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
About this time 60 years ago, six weeks after the Normandy beach landings, Americans were dying in droves in France. Continue reading “History’s Verdict: The Summer of 1944 and 2004”
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.
Allies, Friends, Neutrals, or Enemies?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
For all the mayhem in the Sunni Triangle, and for all our mishaps at trying to reconstruct a pathological society reeling from 30 years of mass murder, we are now seeing the emergence of new civilized beginnings in Iraq. Continue reading “Allies, Friends, Neutrals, or Enemies?”
The Ayatollah of Anti-Americanism
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
The Anti-Chomsky Reader, ed. by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Encounter Books) Continue reading “The Ayatollah of Anti-Americanism”
Civilization vs. Trivia
Sometimes life’s choices are simple.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Last week, the carnivore Saddam Hussein faced the world in the docket. There was none of the usual Middle East barbarity. The mass murderer was not hooded and then beheaded on tape, in the manner of al Qaeda. Civilization has come to Iraq. Continue reading “Civilization vs. Trivia”
Another 9/11?
The awful response that we dare not speak about
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Almost daily we are assured that another attack on the homeland, commensurate with 9/11, is inevitable. What a scary mood of fatalism we are in! Where will it happen? The Olympics? The party conventions this summer? A week before the election? Chicago? L.A.? Continue reading “Another 9/11?”
The Moral Choice: What America Needs to Defend Democracy
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
The next half-year will see some of the most critical months in American history. Continue reading “The Moral Choice: What America Needs to Defend Democracy”
Fantasyland
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
We live in an upside-down civilization of hit Michael Moore conspiracy films, of novels about how to kill a sitting President of the United States, of elite American newsmen ridiculing brave Iraq democrats, and of allied peoples abroad who tell pollsters that they prefer beheaders and fascists to win in Iraq. Perhaps we should take a hard look at this current mythic world. Continue reading “Fantasyland”
Fantasyland
by Victor Davis Hanson
Private Papers
We live in an upside-down civilization of hit Michael Moore conspiracy films, of novels about how to kill a sitting President of the United States, of elite American newsmen ridiculing brave Iraq democrats, and of allied peoples abroad who tell pollsters that they prefer beheaders and fascists to win in Iraq. Perhaps we should take a hard look at this current mythic world. Continue reading “Fantasyland”
High Noon on June 30?
by Victor Davis Hanson
The Oregonian
Pessimism surrounds the proposed June 30th transfer from the American-led coalition authority to the Iraqi interim government. Critics, left and right, fear that we are ram-rodding democracy down the throats of Iraqis. Continue reading “High Noon on June 30?”
The Psychological Effect
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
RONALD REAGAN’S legacy is not one of ideological purity. He raised taxes and signed liberal abortion legislation in California. Despite his “evil empire” speech, he was not the preeminent Cold Warrior: Truman and Eisenhower had both fashioned the policy of containment and deterrence. Continue reading “The Psychological Effect”