by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
So far most of our intelligentsia have been more eager to explain what this war is not than what it is. Yet the conflict is not a hash-it-out in the faculty lounge, nor a brainstorm over a headline in the newsroom, nor flashy quippmanship in a political debate. Continue reading “The Truth Will Set Us Free”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
There are certain predictable symptoms to watch when a widespread amorality begins to infect a postmodern society: cultural relativism, atheism, socialism, utopian pacifism. Continue reading ““Those Jews””
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Talk, yell, spin, flip, back peddle — so America’s elite pundits endlessly regurgitate the debate over Iraq. Most are terrified that last week’s gloomy prognosis will be proven foolish by this week’s relative absence of bombings — only in turn to be shown prescient by next week’s turmoil. Continue reading “The Event of the Age”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Various Syrian foreign ministers, speaking on behalf of a recognized terrorist state, recently warned Israel for fostering “instability” throughout the region by taking out the supposedly empty infrastructure of a killers’ training base on Syrian soil. Continue reading “The Vision Thing”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
“The war is against ‘terror’.” As a number of astute observers have reminded us, terror is a method, not an enemy. And we are no more in a war against it than we were once fighting the scourge of Zeros or the plague of Soviet MiGs. Continue reading “Legends of the Fall”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The objectives and methods of the terrorists and ambushers in Iraq are not hard to fathom. Their strategy is twofold. Continue reading “What’s It All About?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
City Journal
Writing as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the “End of History.” The world, he argued, was fast approaching the final stage of its political evolution. Continue reading “Why History Has No End”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
At the end of this summer of our discontent, an array of Democratic presidential hopefuls, along with a number of restless pundits, are seeking to reclaim credibility after their mistaken prognoses about the Afghan and Iraqi wars. Continue reading “On the Right Side of History”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
By May 1864, Abraham Lincoln was in real trouble. The spectacular victories of the past year at Gettysburg and Vicksburg were mostly forgotten — in the manner that we no longer talk much about the amazing campaign in Afghanistan or the historic three-week drive on Baghdad. Continue reading “These Are Historic Times”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
So many things about September 11 have coalesced to define the attack as a singular event in American history. Three thousand Americans did not die in a fire, earthquake, or flood. Continue reading “The Great Divide”