by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
Western Warfare, as originated by the Greeks and systematized by the Romans, took various forms over the ensuing two millennia. European militaries put greater emphasis on decisive battles such as Gaugamela or Kursk. They focused on collective discipline, the importance of staying in rank, superior technology, and logistics. Continue reading “More Rubble, Less Trouble”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The foreign minister of Spain recently compared the troubled EU to the Titanic, a metaphor not quite so trite given the new research into why the world’s biggest ocean liner collided with an iceberg. Continue reading “The EU Speeds for the Iceberg”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
A review of Robert Spencer’s Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2012). Continue reading “Robert Spencer Asks: Did Muhammad Exist?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Trostky-ization
In ancient Rome, when the emperor or an especially distasteful elite died, his image on stone and in bronze was removed. And by decree there arose adamnatio memoriae, a holistic effort to erase away his entire prior existence. Continue reading “Strangers in a Stranger Land”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The Rules of Outrage — Or Why the Trayvon Martin Tragedy Divides the Country
Every year hundreds of Americans are shot and killed under controversial circumstances, where the evidence is incomplete and subject to dispute, often making impossible an immediate charge of murder or manslaughter, at least until further witnesses or information come forth. Continue reading “From the Trayvon Martin Tragedy to a National Travesty”
by Terry Scambray
New Oxford Review
A review of The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America by Bruce S. Thornton. (Encounter Books, 2011 pp. 283) Continue reading “Appeasement Bode War Not Peace”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
Why are the Greeks such whiners? Look to their tragic history and geography. Continue reading “The Sick Man of Europe”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The European Union and the United Nations, as well as globalization and advanced technology, were supposed to trump age-old cultural, geographical, and national differences and bring people together. Continue reading “History Never Quite Ends”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
At the turn of the twentieth century, President Theodore Roosevelt became embroiled in a public controversy over how some writers and naturalists described the natural world in overly anthropomorphic and sentimental terms. Continue reading ““Nature Fakery””
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The riots and violence in Afghanistan over some accidentally burned Korans are following a script that by now is all too drearily familiar. Continue reading “Koran Burning and Destructive Double Standards”