by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
It is hard to fathom why the United States has been the subject of such vituperation from Europe and the purported moderate Middle Eastern states. September 11 marked the worst attack on American home soil in the nation’s entire history — a far more calamitous event than precursors for past American wars. Continue reading “So Far, So Good?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Magazine
Carlo D’Este, a well-respected historian of the U.S. Army’s battles in Europe during World War II and the author of an engaging and sympathetic biography of Gen. George S. Patton, has now written a massive narrative of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s military career. Continue reading “Soldiers of Contrasts”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The Middle East crisis offers the world an ethical litmus test for our generation in a variety of historic ways. Continue reading “Flunking With Flying Colors: Failing the Moral Test of Our Times”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
My grandfather, a lifelong viticulturalist, used to sigh that the great plague of his life — besides banks, shippers, and packers — was johnsongrass (holcus halepensis). Continue reading “The Parable of the Weed”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The United States once again is at odds with Europe and our closest allies. Continue reading “European Morality?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
WSJ Opinion Journal Online
Even if we were not attempting to prosecute a war against terror, the time would have long since arrived to reconsider our relations with Saudi Arabia. Continue reading “A Royal Pain”
by Victor Davis Hanson
City Journal
The just-released Arab Human Development Report, commissioned by the United Nations and drafted by a group of Middle Eastern intellectuals, utterly confirms the deep pathology gripping the Arab world that Western analysts have long noted. Continue reading “A Ray of Arab Candor”
by Victor Davis Hanson
American Jewish Committee
Even if we were not attempting to prosecute a war against terror, the time would have long since arrived to reconsider our relations with Saudi Arabia. Continue reading “Our Enemies, the Saudis”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
President Bush’s speech outlined well enough the general parameters of peace — Israeli security, a new democratic government in Palestine without Mr. Arafat, return of most of the West Bank et al. Continue reading “Fortress Israel?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Top officials of our government warn that another terrorist attack of the magnitude of September 11 is “inevitable” and “is coming” in the near future. Continue reading “A New Tone For New Times”