by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The nature of American technology and confidence in it are now such that our own astounding achievements sometimes insulate us from the unforgiving laws of the natural world that will not go away. Continue reading “American Audacity”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
John Le Carre and Harold Pinter tell us that we are the enemy. Gerhard Schroeder wins an election only through anti-Americanism. French diplomats warn us not to consider a conniving Saddam Hussein out of compliance — and are seconded by Communist China. Continue reading “So Long to All That”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The State of the Union address was understated, but it was still quite a revolutionary sort of speech (“free people will set the course of history”). Continue reading “Revolutionary”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are on the eve of a controversial war in the Middle East. Continue reading ““Evil Over Good””
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Everyone advises the president to spell out in detail the case for war with Iraq. Continue reading “Another Wartime SOTU”
by Victor Davis Hanson
WSJ Opinion Journal
With this past autumn’s discussion in Washington over what to do about Iraq there arrived also the season of protests. Continue reading “‘Bomb Texas’”
by Victor Davis Hanson
New Criterion
Perhaps with the exception of Churchill, England has produced no more a remarkable man of action than the Duke of Wellington, who put an end to the Napoleonic Wars at Waterloo–nearly six million dead and twenty-three years after France’s mad genius first declared war against Austria in 1792. Continue reading “The Lessons of Wellington”
by Victor Davis Hanson
American Jewish Committee
With this autumn’s discussion in Washington over what to do about Iraq there arrived also the season of protests. Continue reading ““I Love Iraq, Bomb Texas”.”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
It is popular now to talk of the American “empire.” In Europe particularly there are comparisons of Mr. Bush to Caesar — and worse — and invocations all sorts of pretentious poli-sci jargon like “hegemon,” “imperium,” and “subject states,” along with neologisms like “hyperpower” and “overdogs.” Continue reading “A Funny Sort of Empire”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Like Hitler, Saddam Hussein has shown flashes of strategic caginess — in summer 1990 gobbling up Kuwait and threatening Saudi Arabia before perplexed diplomats realized what he was really up to. Continue reading “Baghgrad?”