by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
For most of April and early May, the world’s attention was glued on Jenin as the Israeli Defense Forces sent an armored column and accompanying infantrymen to root out suspected terrorists and their apparatus of suicide bombing. Continue reading “From Jenin to Kashmir: The Hypocrisy of the World’s Attention”
by Victor Davis Hanson
City Journal
All countries seek to inculcate their youth with values that reflect and enhance their national culture—sometimes with horrific results, such as the goose-stepping Hitler Youth or head-nodding madrassas in the Middle East. Continue reading “The Civic Education America Needs”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren Oxford. 419 pp. $30.00 Continue reading “History Calling”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
For much of the 1990s the autocrats of the former Yugoslavia seized control of the fragmenting country and initiated an ethnically inspired bloodbath. Continue reading “Short-Term Pain & Long-Term Gain”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Yesterday, our rural mail carrier delivered to our farm a ring in a small box — of worn metal, its band cut in half, with a strange signet inset of a Roman legionary. Continue reading “A Ring”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In the Greek myth of Pandora’s Box, after the naïve young girl (named “All the Gifts”) opens the forbidden lid, and a host of evils flies out to plague the world — hope alone is left behind to counterbalance the baneful effluvia. Continue reading “At the Bottom of Pandora’s Box”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
American professors have long lectured to our students about purported Western biases and cruel misconceptions toward the “Other.” Continue reading “Occidentalism: The False West”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Magazine
War is eternal. It is part of the human condition; it is, as Heraclitus wrote, “the father of us all.” Continue reading “War Will Be War”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Since 9/11 there continues to come a swirl of bizarre images of this conflict — military, political, and cultural. In their aggregate, these symbols finally overwhelm the senses and lead to a profound sense of despair — if also occasional hilarity. Let me begin the tour with no fixed itinerary. Continue reading “A Tour of the Front”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Watching televised clips from a recent pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, along with other such demonstrations over the last few weeks, can be a chilling experience. Continue reading “The New Fascism”