Victor Davis Hanson's Private Papers

Raymond Ibrahim: Religion of peace, religion of terror - Ibrahim makes sense of the paradox of Islam. "How Taqiyya Alters Islam's Rules of War" 1/31/10

A Look Back

Victor Davis Hanson: "No real identity, no firm beliefs, no core convictions" - VDH examins the stages of a failing presidency. "Predicatable as Clockwork" 1/31/10

Political Culture

Victor Davis Hanson: How do we explain the serial misguided, misleading, false statements by Obama? "The Obamarang" 1/30/10

President

Victor Davis Hanson: Do we know who Obama is? Does he? "Obama versus Obama" 1/28/10

State of the Union

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama has fewer and fewer options - a look at the empty rhetoric of the past and some thoughts on where it might lead. "Obama in Free Fall" 1/27/10

Politics

Victor Davis Hanson: Does our president know what the people want? Does he think they are duped and too soporific to notice hypocrisy? "Our Populist President?" 1/27/10

Presidential Folly

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama and his experts hope to create a guardian world - experts knowing better what is good for us than we do. "Our Philosopher-King Obama" 1/25/10

Week January 18-24, 2010

Review

Terry Scambray: David Berlinski discusses what strange concoctions the "new atheists" swallow. "God and the Godless" 1/24/10

Senator Scott Brown

Victor Davis Hanson: What is the meaning of the Massachusette's defeat of Democrats. "Post-election Thoughts" 1/23/10

Scott Brown Election

Victor Davis Hanson: How we should interpret the Scott Brown moment. "Why the Great and Growing Backlash?" 1/20/10

President

Victor Davis Hanson: How do we explain the serial misstatements by Obama? "Let Me Be Perfectly Not Clear" 1/19/10

The Media

Victor Davis Hanson: Our presses have a strange case of bias. "Conservative Felonies, Liberal Misdemeanors" 1/18/10

Week January 11-17, 2010

Gaffes

Victor Davis Hanson: What Harry Reid's teaching moment really meant. "The Subtexts of Reid's 'Negro' Moment" 1/15/10

The President

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Obama's poll ratings are falling. "Anatomy of a Meltdown" 1/15/10

Hope and Change

Victor Davis Hanson: How our president might change if he threw out partisanship and class warfare. "The Way Our World Works" 1/13/10

The Tragic President II

Victor Davis Hanson: Theater and Obama - VDH concludes his analysis of our president as Greek protagonist. "Bush Did It! And, Really, Bush Did It! Bush Really Did It!" 1/12/10

Diplomacy

Victor Davis Hanson: Will 2010 be one of the memorable years globally? Here is a look at some history-making years. "2010: Our Year of Decision" 1/11/10

Week January 4-10, 2010

Terrorism

Victor Davis Hanson: Let us review the debate on counterterrorism one more time. "Beating the Dead Terrorist Horse" 1/10/10

War on Terror

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's attitudes make us wonder. "Who Is the Enemy?" 1/6/10

The Tragic President

Victor Davis Hanson: Will Obama's character implode like a Greek protagonist's on the four-year stage of his presidency - some parallels? "Obama as Greek Tragedy - Part One" 1/5/10

2010

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's rhetoric in 2009 will come back to haunt him. "Chickens and Their 2010 Roost" 1/4/10

Thoughts on Terrorism

Jamie Glaznov: An interview with VDH reflects on the recent terrorist bungle. "Obama's Tortured Rendezvous with Reality" 1/4/10

Week December 21, 2009-January 3, 2010

Flight 253

Victor Davis Hanson: Telltale signs of a war on terror will force Obama to change to avoid a "man-made disaster" of an administration. "Human IEDs" 1/3/09

Happy New Year

Victor Davis Hanson: VDH predicts that things will get better in 2010 as Obama makes changes to save his political career. "On the Horizon" 1/2/10

President

Victor Davis Hanson: Will Obama be able to put the country back together again? "A Humpty Dumpty View of the World" 1/1/10

Book Review

Victor Davis Hanson: Right time, right place - Curtis LeMay was a true war hero. "American Ajax" 1/1/10

Looking Back

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

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February 18, 2010 Fresno State University

Where: Concert Hall, Music Building
Time: 7:00 PM
Title: "The Legacy of War"
Info: Contact Dr. Honora Chapman at hchapman@csufresno.edu

February 25, 2010 UC Berkeley

Where: IGS Library, Moses Hall
Time: 4:00PM
Title: "Laws of Conflict in the Post-Modern World and the Lessons of Classical Tradition"
Info: Contact Harry Kreisler at kreisler@berkeley.edu

March 3, 2010 University of South Alabama

Where: Laidlaw Center for Performing Arts
Time: 7:00PM
Title: "Society and Warfare in Ancient Greece"
Info: Dr. Isabel Brown at ibrown@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

Carnage and Culture

Wars of the Ancient Greeks

The Western Way of War