VDH's Private Papers

Year's End December 21-31, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "A Fairer Verdict on George Bush" 12/30/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Summer of 1683" 12/30/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Learning from Abdul Mutallab" 12/29/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Shameless Islamist Doublespeak Rages On" 12/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The War Against the Wannabe Rich" 12/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Where Did These Guys Come From?" 12/26/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Why Are We Tiring of Obama?" 12/23/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Orwell Couldn't Make This Up" 12/23/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Long March from California to Copenhagen" 12/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our Flip-Flopping Wars" 12/21/09

Week December 14-20, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama and the Malleability of History" 12/19/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Is America a Deer in the Headlights?" 12/17/09

Bernard Chapin: "Change, Weakness, Disaster, Obama" 12/16/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Has War Really Changed?" 12/14/09

Week December 7-13, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama's Wheel of Fortune" 12/12/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama's Bad War" 12/11/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Are We to Be Led in War by a "Tiger" or a Kitten?" 12/11/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Glenn Beck Where Art Thou?" 12/9/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "One Eighth of Americans on 'Nutritional Aid'" 12/9/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Voting Present in Iran" 12/7/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Riding the Back of the Tiger" 12/7/09

Week November 30-December 6, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our Present Anxieties" 12/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson:"Resetting the Reset Button" 12/5/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Change We Can Believe In" 12/5/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Dean Obama" 12/2/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "We Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" 11/30/09

Week November 23-29, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Candid Camera Moments" 11/29/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "A Manifest Disaster" 11/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Bowing, Dithering and Trashing America" 11/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Thanks to the Forgotten Part-time Teachers" 11/27/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Why the Liberal Anger Over the Asian Tour" 11/27/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "A New Age of Reason" 11/26/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Where Has the Thrill Gone?" 11/24/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Circling Sharks Smell American Blood" 11/23/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Lethal Weapon" 11/23/09

Week November 16-22, 2009

Linda Halderman MD: "Overcoming the Odds" 11/22/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood" 11/21/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Palin-odes" 11/20/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama's Prissy America" 11/18/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Same Old, Same Old at Fort Hood" 11/17/09

Week November 9-15, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Thoughts from the Late Republic" 11/15/09

Jamie Glazov: "Obama's "Bush Did It" Narrative" 11/14/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Is Fort Hood Really a Tragedy?" 11/14/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Sacrificing Americans" 11/12/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Who Are 'They'?" 11/12/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "What If? - Mr. President" 11/11/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Discreet Charm of the Left-wing Plutocracy" 11/9/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Afghan Mythologies" 11/9/09

Week November 2-8, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Fort Hood" 11/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "A Very Interesting Next Three Years" 11/4/09

Herbert Jordan: "Afghanistan and the Trojan War" 11/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Voting Present on Illegal Immigration" 11/3/09

Week October 26-November 1, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy" 10/31/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Guantanamo Laureate" 10/29/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "All Falling Down..." 10/29/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obamanoia" 10/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Presidential Purpose?" 10/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Kitty-Cat Who Roared" 10/26/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "America's Obama Obsession" 10/26/09

Week October 19-25, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Narcissus-in-Chief" 10/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Now We Know Why He Passed on the Dalai Lama" 10/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Funny Money" 10/21/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Just Not Into You" 10/19/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama's Theorems" 10/19/09

Week October 12-18, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Confessions of a Cultural Drop-out" 10/18/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Confusions of the Age" 10/16/09

Bruce S. Thornton: "Obama, the Prize and Political Theater" 10/14/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "An Open Question to Osama Bin Laden" 10/14/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Guru America" 10/12/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Power of Payback" 10/12/09

Week October 5-11, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Nobelitics" 10/11/09

Bruce S. Thornton: "The Left's Selective Outrage" 10/11/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Buck Passes Here" 10/9/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Thoughts on the Hysteria About Afghanistan" 10/9/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Change and Hope" 10/7/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The War in Afghanistan" 10/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Troubling Policy on Iran" 10/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Three Dangerous Stooges" 10/5/09

Week September 29-October 3, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Obsolescence of a Slur" 10/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Being Frank" 10/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Bitter Harvests to Come" 10/3/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "A PR Nightmare for the Obamas" 10/3/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Some Signs of the Times" 10/01/09

Victor Davis Hanson:"The Past Is Not Quite Past" 9/29/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "A Fishy Tale" 9/28/09

Week September 21-27, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Sleeping Through Speeches" 9/24/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Barak Obama, College Administrator" 9/23/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Devolving, Depressing and Debased Debate" 9/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "No Rules in the Arena?" 9/21/09

Week September 14-20, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Desperately Seeking a Healthcare Bill" 9/20/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Deconstructing the 'Whup Ass'" 9/20/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Dr. Barack and Mr Obama" 09/18/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Rise of the Uncouth" 9/17/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Left, Too Left" 9/16/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Now Wait Just a Minute..." 9/16/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "When Will Westerners Stop Westernizing Islamic Concepts" 9/15/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Why Obama Blinked" 9/15/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama's Address to Congress Didn't Quite Do It" 9/14/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Rep. Charles Rangel - Sign of Our Times" 9/14/09

Week September 7-13, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our National 9/11 Schizophrenia" 9/13/ 09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Lamentations of the Elite" 9/13/09

Bruce S. Thornton: "Holder's Destructive Investigation" 9/11/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Once Upon a Time..." 9/10/09

Dr. Linda Halderman: "Obamacare's Poison Pill" 9/9/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Not This Pig" 9/9/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Second World War - Seventy Years Later" 9/8/09

Week September 1-6, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Van Jones' Resignation" 9/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "From Preparedness to Appeasement and Back" 9/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Whining Will Get You Nowhere" 9/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "What We Are Learning About the Era of Obama" 9/3/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "War - What War?" 9/2/09

Week August 24-30, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "'Senator High and Mighty'" 8/30/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama and 'Redistributive Change'" 8/29/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama vs. Obama" 8/26/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Fault Is Not in the Stars, But in Ourselves" 8/25/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Divine Debt Trumps All" 8/24/09

Week August 17-23, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama's Follies" 8/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Who's in Charge of Diplomacy?" 8/21/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Strange Case of the Obama Meltdown" 8/21/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "On Dishing It Out..." 8/20/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our Road to Oceania" 8//17/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "What Went Wrong" 8/17/09

Week August 10-17, 2009

Raymond Ibrahim: "Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad" 8/16/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our Ongoing Catharsis" 8/16/09

Bruce S. Thornton: "The New York Times' Resident Voodoo Statistician" 8/15/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Prairie-Fire Anger" 8/15/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Clinton's North Korean Odyssey" 8/13/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Sailing to Byzantium" 8/12/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Bullying Israel" 8/10/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama's Great Race to Change America" 8/10/09

Week August 3-9, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Great American Debt" 8/8/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "No Free Lunch" 8/8/09

Bruce S. Thornton: "The End of Post-Racialism" 8/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our Angry Aristocracy" 8/3/09

Week July 27-August 2, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Lose, Lose When You Talk About Race" 8/2/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Mediterranean Reflections on What Went Wrong" 8/1/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Blues" 7/30/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Entertainment Gone Awry" 7/30/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Big Government Medicine" 7/28/09

Week July 20-26, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "What Was That 'Stupidly" All About?" 7/26/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Obama's Puzzling Approach to the Muslim World" 7/26/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Presidents Aren't What They Used to Be" 7/24/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama's Path Not Taken" 7/24/09

Week July 13-19, 2009

Raymond Ibrahim: "Continuity" 7/19/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Psychology of Debt" 7/19/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "On Shearing Sheep" 7/18/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "War and Taxes" 7/16/09

Karen Lugo: "Neda and Soraya M's Voices Demand Our Attention" 7/16/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Who Was Michael Jackson?" 7/13/09

Week July 6-12, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "The War Against the Producers" 7/12/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Growing Worries about Our Pied Piper" 7/12/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our Chrysalis Stage" 7/11/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "AThug's Primer" 7/11/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "What Is Wisdom?" 7/8/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Sur-realpolitik" 7/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Missing Our Moment in Iran" 7/6/09

Week June 29-July 5, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Thoughts on a Schizophrenic Society" 7/03/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama II vs. Obama I" 7/3/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Thuggery 101" 6/29/09

Week June 22-28, 2009

Bruce S. Thornton: "Standing with Freedom" 6/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Armchair Alliance" 6/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Again, Why the Diffidence?" 6/27/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "What Do These First Six Months Mean?" 6/25/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Recollections on a New Age Begun" 6/25/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Thoughts on America and Iran" 6/24/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obamaworld" 6/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Reflections on the Iranian Enigma" 6/22/09

Week June 15-21, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Voting Present on Iran" 6/21/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Words Matter in the War on Terror" 6/21/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama's New Liberal Realism" 6/20/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Criticism and Conciliation" 6/20/09

Raymond Ibrahim:"Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?" 6/19/09

Victor Davis Hanson:"Just Make Stuff Up" 6/19/09

Frank DeRose: "Why I Oppose Sotomayor" 6/18/09

Bruce S. Thornton: "Dupes" 6/16/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The World Turned Upside Down" 6/15/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our Historically Challenged President" 6/15/09

Week June 8-14, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "David Letterman, Rev. Wright and Thoughts on a Creepy Culture" 6/14/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "I No Longer Quite Believe..." 6/11/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Respecting the Faithful vs. Respecting the Faith" 6/9/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Diversity Mess" 6/8/09

Week June 1-7, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Reckoning" 6/7/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "The History Channel's Distortion of the Crusades" 6/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Age of Middle East Atonement" 6/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Who's To Judge" 6/5/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "America's First Postmodern Presidency" 6/5/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Sotomayor Nomination" 6/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Muslim World Address" 6/3/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Reflections on an Age Now Fading..." 6/3/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Bush Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" 6/1/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Israel's Cuban Missile Crisis - All the Time" 6/1/09

Week May 25-31, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Lost in the Labyrinth of Race" 5/31/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Wandering Around Europe" 5/31/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "California on the Horizon" 5/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Euroamericans?" 5/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Ministers of Truth" 5/27/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Hope and Change's Shelf Life" 5/27/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Is America Postmodern or Premodern?" 5/26/09

Week May 18-24, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Amnesiactics" 5/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Ways of the Left" 5/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Once Upon a Time in 2002" 5/20/09

Week May 10-17, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "John Ford and the Republicans" 5/17/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Cheney Agonistes" 5/17/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "President Palin's First 100 Days" 5/15/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Cracks in the Facade" 5/14/09

Jamie Glazov: "Obama's Foreign Policy Disasters" 5/13/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Americans Want It Both Ways" 5/11/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Illegal Immigration Realities" 5/11/09

Week May 4-10, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Questions from Oceania" 5/10/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Why Did Republicans Lose Their Appeal?" 5/8/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Nothing New Under the Sun" 5/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. President" 5/4/09

April 27- May 3, 2009

Raymond Ibrahim: "Obama's Abominable Obeisance" 5/2/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Confessions of a Contrarian" 5/1/09

Bruce S. Thornton: "The Obama Administration and the Monopoly on Education" 4/29/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obamatopia" 4/29/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Crazy Times - Crazier Ones to Come" 4/27/09

Week April 20-26, 2009

Bruce S. Thornton: "The World Likes Us, It Really Like Us!" 4/25/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "One Tour Too Many" 4/24/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Textbook Lies About Islam" 4/24/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Can We Get Beyond Race?" 4/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our New Sort of War" 4/20/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Piratical Thoughts" 4/20/09

Week April 13-19, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "President of the World" 4/17/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Wisdom of Crowds" 4/15/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "President 50/50" 4/15/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Politics of Blame" 4/14/09

Week April 6-12, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Postnational, Post-modern, Post-everything Presidential Trip" 4/12/09

Bruce Thornton: "Another Times Blowhard" 4/10/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Presidential First Stone" 4/10/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "G-20 Outtakes" 4/8/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Europe Got Obama - Now What?" 4/6/09

Week March 30-April 5, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "President Obama's First 70 Days" 4/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Good - Part III" 4/1/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "American Mob Rule" 3/30/09

Week March 23-29, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Ugly - Part Two" 3/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Part One" 3/25/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Dr. Obama: First, Do No Harm" 3/24/09

Week March 16-22, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Thoughts About Depressed Americans" 3/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The 'Depression' for Us Idiots" 3/21/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Bush Did It" 3/20/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Can't We All Agree" 3/20/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Jihad, Martyrdom and the Torments of the Grave" 3/19/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Yes, We Can If They Did It and We Are Liked Now" 3/18/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Now Obama Tells Us" 3/16/09

Week March 9-15, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Oh, the Debts We Will See" 3/15/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Europeanizing Europe" 3/14/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Fast and Thick in the Age of Obama" 3/13/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Frum vs. Limbaugh" 3/12/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Accounting for California's Suicide" 3/9/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Recessional" 3/9/09

Week March 2-8, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obamafusion" 3/8/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Taqiyya Revisited" 3/8/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Great Divider?" 3/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Triumph of Banality" 3/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "More on Rush" 3/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Enough Already" 3/2/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "A Funny Sort of Depression" 3/2/09

Week February 23-March 1, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Perverse Thoughts about a Perverse Recession" 2/28/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "War and Peace - and Deceit - in Islam" 2/27/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Some Reflections in the Times of Hysteria" 2/27/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Irony of Audacity" 2/26/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "An 'Impulsive' America" 2/23/09

Week February 16-22, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our Battered American" 2/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Pause and Take a Deep Breath" 2/20/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Ancient Wisdom" 2/19/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "Consider the Source" 2/16/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Hardly the Best and Brightest" 2/16/09

Week February 9-15, 2009

Bruce Thornton: "Foreign Policy and Magical Thinking" 2/14/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "More on the New Horizon" 2/13/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Been There, Done That" 2/11/09

Week February 2-8, 2009

Bruce S. Thornton: "Unwarranted Self-Abasement" 2/8/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Apocalyptic Style" 2/8/09

Bruce S. Thornton: "Suicidal Appeasement" 2/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Hope He Can Change" 2/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "President Hamlet" 2/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "It Isn't Easy Being a Saint" 2/4/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Time to Beam Down to Earth" 2/2/09

Week January 26-February 1

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Obama Interview" 2/1/09

Honora Chapman: "Optimism and Defiance" 1/30/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Phony War" 1/30/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Dancing Around Landmines" 1/28/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Unreal Expectations?" 1/26/09

Week January 19-25, 2008

Victor Davis Hanson: "Don't Waste a Crisis" 1/25/09

Bruce Thornton: "Israel's Fight for Survival" 1/23/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "An Uneasy Feeling" 1/22/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Bush Considered" 1/20/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama: The Great American Hope" 1/20/09

Week January 12-18, 2008

Victor Davis Hanson: "Novus Ordo Seclorum" 1/18/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Obama: the Great American Hope" 1/17/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "From Gaza to Guantanamo" 1/14/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "Try a Little Honesty in 2009" 1/12/09

Week, January 5-11, 2009

Raymond Ibrahim: "Carl Brockelmann" 1/10/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "At New Animal Farm" 1/9/09

Raymond Ibrahim: "On Vikings and Victims" 1/9/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "A Media Morality Tale" 1/7/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "A Lose-Lose World" 1/6/09

Victor Davis Hanson "The Gaza Rules" 1/5/09

Week January 1-4, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: "Surreal Gaza" 1/2/09

Victor Davis Hanson: "A Year Like None Other" 1/1/09