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”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
One of the great trends of the modern world has been a blind faith in the overwhelming power of technology and material wealth. Continue reading “What Wins Battles?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
WSJ Opinion Journal Online
Since September 11, we have heard mostly slander and lies about the West from radical Islamic fundamentalists in their defense of the terrorists. Continue reading “Why the Muslims Misjudged Us”
by Victor Davis Hanson
WSJ Opinion Journal Online
In times of national crisis we all look to government. It is the one entity that can marshal sufficient forces to protect us from foreign enemies and provide for our domestic safety. Continue reading “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme”
by Victor Davis Hanson
The Claremont Institute
The historian Thucydides believed that democracies were the most adept governments at war making. Continue reading “Ferocious Warmakers: How Democracies Win Wars”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Magazine
The United States finally entered the First World War because of the nation’s lingering outrage over a few hundred floating bodies from the sunken ocean liner Lusitania, which was torpedoed during Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare. Continue reading “At War – What Are We Made Of?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
American Heritage
A historian argues that in Vietnam America’s cause was just, its arms effective, and its efforts undermined by critics back home — and that this is how things must work in a free society. Continue reading “The Meaning of Tet”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review
MacArthur’s War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero, by Stanley Weintraub (Free Press, 375 pp., $27.50) Continue reading “Five-Star Peacock”
by Victor Davis Hanson
The Wilson Quarterly
The family farm in America has all but vanished, and with it we are losing centuries of social and civic wisdom imparted by the agrarian life. Continue reading “Democracy Without Farmers”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Heritage Foundation
“He sees not that sea of trouble, of labour, and expense which have been lavished on this farm. He forgets the fortitude, and the regrets.”
-J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America Continue reading “Tall Tales from The Family Farm”