by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Sophocles once wrote a magnificent play about the Greeks’ greatest fighter at Troy after Achilles — Ajax, as irreplaceable in war as he proved expendable in peace. Continue reading “Israel’s Ajax: The Tragedy of Mr. Sharon”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Battle begins to take on a logic of its own, as the world itself does not stop at the sound of gunfire, but in fact goes on — and on, and on each day, peeling off an old layer of dogma and exposing raw truth. Continue reading “The World Upside Down”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The Palestinian Authority and spokesmen from the Arab world are now advancing a new party line by comparing their own struggle to our American Revolution — with overt associations between the Founding Fathers and Mr. Arafat and his associates! Continue reading “Its a Mad, Mad World”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Unfortunately, wars are not as rare as lasting periods of peace. More people have perished in conflict since the Second World War than the 60 million who died during that horrific bloodletting. Continue reading “Wishing War Away?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
City Journal
Thousands arrive illegally from Mexico into California each year—and the state is now home to fully 40 percent of America’s immigrants, legal and illegal. Continue reading “Do We Want Mexifornia?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
There is a postmodern amorality afloat — the dividend of years of an American educational system in which historical ignorance, cultural relativism, and well-intentioned theory, in place of cold facts, has reigned. Continue reading “Postmoderns Palestine”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In some ways in our war against the terrorists we are like the democracies of the late 1930s. Continue reading “The 1930’s, Again”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
A common theme throughout classical literature is the role of pretext (prophasis) contrasted with the actual cause of complaint (aitia) — the great divide between what aggrieved people say publicly and what they feel privately. Continue reading “Palestine Pretense and Israel Reality”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
One of the advantages of living in relative isolation on a farm is the opportunity to ponder idle questions when there are few experts around to give the proper answers. Continue reading “Questions: Making Sense of the World”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Kuwait has become a metaphor for the growing divide between the United States and the Islamic world — one that is fundamental and cannot be so easily resolved by shaking hands, holding conferences, and promising to “just to get along.” Continue reading “Listen to the Kuwaitis”