June 16, 2008 Reply to Patrick J. Buchanan Pseudo-Historian, Very Real Dissimulator
by Victor Davis Hanson
PajamasMedia.com
Patrick J. Buchanan got upset that I wrote a column about the World War II revisionists, especially his book, and that of Nicholson Baker’s on the allied “crimes” of bombing German cities.
June 10, 2008 Euromania? Some Thoughts from Ground Zero
by Victor Davis Hanson Pajamas Media
It’s a Euro Thing
If one were to collate European criticisms of Americana and then compare them to reality in Europe, well, sure confusion results. Here are some thoughts about another visit these last two weeks in Europe.
June 9, 2008 The Bad War?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Normandy, France — Questioning the past is a good thing, but rewriting it contrary to facts is quite another. In the latest round of revisionism about the Second World War, the awful British and naive Americans, not the poor Germans, have ended up as the real culprits.
June 6, 2008 When Success Is the Orphan Some insist on turning a blind eye to the benefits of our efforts in the Mid-East.
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online
Recent studies showing a decline in global incidents of Islamic terror have been interpreted as solely a Middle-East intramural affair.
May 27, 2008 Why International Borders Remain in Flux
by Victor Davis Hanson The American
After the convulsions that followed the postwar collapse of European imperialism in Asia and Africa, we had once again become accustomed to the idea that the map as we knew it was static and fixed.
May 23, 2008 Beneath the Hope . . .
Obama and the politics of grievance
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Magazine
The more Barack Obama racks up majorities in states with large university and African-American populations the more he seems to fare poorly in the electoral-vote-rich states...
May 20, 2008 Appeasement and Its Discontents
Obama & Dubya.
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online
Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.
May 15, 2008 What’s Wrong with Democrats?
Some thoughts on Carter, Pelosi, and Obama
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Pious Amorality
In what I think was a rephrensible one-sided Jimmy Carter article in the Guardian condemning Israel for the conditions in Gaza, I was struck by these two sentences:
May 13, 2008 What's Wrong with Republicans?
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO's The Corner
On this great debate, I tend to agree with Mark Levin and others that conservatives should reach out with conservative principles better framed and presented, rather than change the message for the perceived advantage of the hour.
May 9, 2008 More Blaming the Messenger
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Andrew Sullivan has devolved into one of those fringe, and by now hysterical, voices that almost no one on their own initiative quotes or refers to for enlightenment — but ends up on occasion replying to, since his stock and trade methods of gaining exposure are reduced to constant venom and unfounded falsities.
May 6, 2008 The New Learning That Failed
by Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion
Ten years ago John Heath and I wrote a lament for the decline of classical learning in the university — Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom.
May 5, 2008 The Half-Won, Half-Lost War
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The gloomy election-year refrain is that America is mired in Iraq, took its eye off Afghanistan, empowered Iran and is losing the war on terror. But how accurate is that pessimistic diagnosis?
May 1, 2008 No Country for Old Liberals
by
Bruce Thornton Private Papers
According to liberals, they are tolerant, open-minded, sensitive to complexity and nuance, and wary of simplistic explanations. So why is a column by the liberal Michael Hirsh, in the liberal newsweekly Newsweek, so intolerant, close-minded, simplistic and bigoted?
April 29, 2008 Orwellian Times
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Scary Legacy of the 2008 Democratic Primary
One of the strangest things about the NAACP Wright pseudo-scientific speech on learning, and its enthusiastic CNN coverage and analysis, was the abject racialism of Wright. It was sort of an inverse Bell-Curve presentation, based on assumed DNA differences.
April 28, 2008 A New Environmentalism
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Tuesday was Earth Day, and it reminded us how environmentalism has helped to preserve the natural habitat of the United States — reducing the manmade pollution of our soils, air and water that is a byproduct of comfortable modern industrial life.
April 25, 2008 Jihad Studies as Trivia
by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers
This article was first published in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard.
Anew article by Thomas Hegghammer in the Times Literary Supplement, entitled “Jihadi studies: the obstacles to understanding radical Islam and the opportunities to know it better,” lives up to its title — not so much by delineating what these obstacles are, but rather by being representative of them. Regrettably, the author evokes the same old mantras prevalent in modern academia’s study of jihad and jihadists.
