by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
For much of last December, Iran seemed schizophrenic. Continue reading “Will Iran Really Start a War?”
Tag: History
The New Old Europe
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Nearly ten years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld provoked outrage by referring to “Old Europe.” Continue reading “The New Old Europe”
A Novel VDH
Reliving the fall of Sparta: An interview.
by Katheryn Jean Lopez
National Review Online
Victor Davis Hanson, known as VDH to his fans, has a new book out. This time, it’s a novel, The End of Sparta. He talked with National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez about the Greeks and the novel. Continue reading “A Novel VDH”
‘When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend’
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Obama Mythologos
Barack Obama is a myth, our modern version of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. What we were told is true, never had much basis in fact — a fact now increasingly clear as hype gives way to reality. Continue reading “‘When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend’”
A Vandalized Valley
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
I am starting to feel as if I am living in a Vandal state, perhaps on the frontier near Carthage around AD 530, or in a beleaguered Rome in 455. Here are some updates from the rural area surrounding my farm, taken from about a 30-mile radius. In this take, I am not so much interested in chronicling the flotsam and jetsam as in fathoming whether there is some ideology that drives it. Continue reading “A Vandalized Valley”
Pearl Harbor Considered
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Why did Japan attack us 70 years ago today, other than the usually cited existential reasons and the fact that they thought they could and get away with it? Continue reading “Pearl Harbor Considered”
Ancient Virtues and Modern Sins
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Candor
Aside from courage — the essential trait without which, as the ancients insisted, all other virtues are impossible — candor is now the most appreciated. Continue reading “Ancient Virtues and Modern Sins”
Why Does America Defend the Weak and Small?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Recently, an open mike caught French president Nicolas Sarkozy and American president Barack Obama jointly trashing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Sarkozy scoffed, “I cannot stand him. He’s a liar.” Continue reading “Why Does America Defend the Weak and Small?”
The American Way of War
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
William Shawcross, the British journalist, historian, and human rights advocate — once a fierce critic of the Nixon-Kissinger years, now a defender of the West’s struggle against radical Islam — has written the best book yet on the dilemmas Western governments face in dealing with Islamic terrorists.1 Continue reading “The American Way of War”
The Ancient World As It Was
by Cody Carlson
The Deseret News
Review of The End of Sparta by Victor Davis Hanson, Bloomsbury Press, 2011 Continue reading “The Ancient World As It Was”