by Victor Davis Hanson // Tribune Media Services
We may be in the era of Facebook and fracking. But 2013 is still beginning to look a lot like the cataclysmic century we just left behind.
More people probably died from the wars of the 20th century than from the battles of the prior 2,500 years combined. The bloodiest century saw the rise of fascism, Nazism, communism and jihadism. Continue reading “Back to our 20th-century future”
by Victor Davis Hanson // TLS
by Victor Davis Hanson
In ancient Athens, popular courts of paid jurors helped institutionalize fairness. If a troublemaker like Socrates was thought to be a danger to the popular will, then he was put on trial for inane charges like “corrupting the youth” or “introducing new gods.” Continue reading “Revolutionary Tribunals”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
By a.d. 200, the Roman Republic was a distant memory. Few citizens of the global Roman Empire even knew of their illustrious ancestors like Scipio or Cicero. Millions no longer spoke Latin. Italian emperors were a rarity. There were no national elections. Continue reading “The Glue Holding America Together”
by Raymond Ibrahim
While unrest in Turkey continues to capture attention, more subtle and more telling events concerning the Islamification of Turkey — and not just at the hands of Prime Minister Erdogan but majorities of Turks — are quietly transpiring. Continue reading “Christendom’s Greatest Cathedral to Become a Mosque”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
The revelation that the Department of Justice acquired and read the phone records of Associated Press editors and reporters does not change the obvious fact that the mainstream media have been reliable supporters of the Democratic Party, even if they are unappreciated by the administration. Continue reading “A Brief History of Media Bias”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
From the heights of Gibraltar you can see Africa about nine miles away to the south — and gaze eastward on the seemingly endless Mediterranean, which stretches 2,400 miles to Asia. Continue reading “The Stagnant Mediterranean”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPageMag.com
Remember Benghazi? Continue reading “Where’s the Patriotic Wrath Over Benghazi?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Wall Street Journal
A prominent Syrian rebel commander with the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar recently appeared on YouTube cutting open the chest of a dead government soldier, pulling something out of it—the heart or perhaps a lung—and taking a bite. Continue reading “Why Some Wars Are So Savage”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Originally published by World Magazine
One of the traditional purposes for studying History has been to learn from it, to see how past events can shed light on the present. Continue reading “Persecution Myth? How the Present Explains the Past”