Tag Archives: Victor Davis Hanson

Frank Miller’s Geostrategic Theory

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Lee

Frank Lovece sat down with Frank Miller for Newsday to discuss his upcoming film The Spirit. Toward the end of it Lovece asked Miller about remarks he’d made in 2007 in support of the Iraq War, and offered him an … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Foreign affairs, Military Matters | Tagged 1992, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, anti-Americanism, batman, comic books, Dark Knight, fascism, Frank Lovece, Frank Miller, geostrategy, Germany, Give Me Liberty, graphic novel, Hollywood, Holy Terror Batman, illustration, interview, Iran, Iraq war, Islamofascism, Jordan, Kuwait, Middle East, military geography, negative space, neoconservative, Newsday, Pearl Harbor, radio, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, social commentary, Syria, The Spirit, Turkey, Victor Davis Hanson | 17 Comments

Evolving McCain

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Lee

I cited Victor Davis Hanson’s NRO post earlier in an easy defense of Palin, but there’s another point therein worth mention: Palin as agent of change for McCain, personally. On energy, [Sarah Palin] will either blunt McCain’s unreasonable opposition to … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008 | Tagged Alaska, ANWR, drilling, energy, energy independence, McCain, oil, Palin, Sarah Palin, Victor Davis Hanson | Leave a comment

Running Aground Over Sarah Palin

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Lee

Paul Begala laments the fact that McCain didn’t select a vice presidential candidate who is more traditional, old, boring, uninspiring…in essence, an ossified agent of the establishment, like Joe Biden for instance. Well, he doesn’t quite phrase it that way, … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008 | Tagged Biden, Democrat, election, establishment, experience, McCain, Obama, Palin, Paul Begala, platform, reform, Republican, Sarah Palin, Tom Ridge, veep, vice president, Victor Davis Hanson, vp | 1 Comment

Defending the Second World War

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Lee

Here’s a five part Uncommon Knowledge segment featuring a superb pairing of Christopher Hitchens and Victor Davis Hanson, to discuss the new World War II revisionism led by Pat Buchanan. While it’s an entertaining exercise for a Saturday, I’ll warn … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, fascism, History, Pat Buchanan, Peter Robinson, revisionism, Uncommon Knowledge, Victor Davis Hanson, video, World War II, youtube | Leave a comment

Another Western Way of War

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Lee

From a somewhat shocking interview of Victor Davis Hanson by Swiss newspaper Junge Freiheit, Abe Greenwald clips a portion where Hanson ferociously thrashes the contemporary European Weltanschuuang. He calls it a secularized, socialist pacifism, that has deluded a continent into … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Abe Greenwald, Europe, intelligentsia, interview, Junge Freiheit, pacifism, secularism, socialism, United States, Victor Davis Hanson | 2 Comments