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Victor Davis Hanson, nacido en California en 1953, es historiador militar americano, ensayista político y mejor conocido como experto en el tema de la guerra. Se formó en la Universidad de California, Santa Cruz (Licenciado en Letras, 1975), en la Escuela Americana de Estudios Clásicos (1978-1979) y recibió su doctorado en Filosofía de la Universidad de Stanford en 1980, especializándose en Clásicos. Poseedor de muchos premios y galardones por su labor, también es autor y editor de 13 libros, el más reciente se titula: “Una guerra como ninguna otra: Cómo pelearon los atenienses y los espartanos la Guerra del Peloponeso” a publicarse a fines de Octubre 2005. Pero el que lo lanzó a la fama fue "Carnicería y cultura" un iconoclasta libro histórico sobre la guerra y Occidente. En él, Hanson afirma que el espíritu libertario, el ingenio, la curiosidad científica, la ferocidad guerrera, el debate abierto, la democracia y el capitalismo caracterizan a Occidente siendo esos principios los que le dotan de su fuerza a través de los múltiples vaivenes, altibajos y agitaciones de la historia. La aplicación de sus principios forman una combinación letal cuando se aplican a la guerra. Las sociedades no occidentales pueden lograr alguna victoria ocasional cuando luchan contra los valores occidentales pero la “manera occidental de la guerra” a la larga prevalecerá al no tener parangón en su devastación y decisión. El Dr. Hanson aparece frecuentemente opinando sobre temas actuales y clásicos en el New York Times, el Wall Street Journal, el International Herald Tribune, National Review, el Weekly Standard, el Daily Telegraph y el Washington Times entre muchas otras publicaciones.
March 29, 2007
Collaborations nº 1596
Moralist Republicans don't have the market cornered on hypocrisy. If giving into excess embarrasses some of them, for a number of Democrats — supposedly the party of the people — hypocrisy arises from enjoying elite privileges while alleging that America bestows favors unduly on the few. Descargar PDF
March 26, 2007
Collaborations nº 1586
The phrase “300 Spartans” evokes not only the ancient battle of Thermopylae, but also the larger idea of fighting for freedom against all odds — a notion subsequently to be enshrined through some 2500 years of Western civilization. Descargar PDF
March 13, 2007
Collaborations nº 1552
Writing of the decline of the West — and the United States in particular — has been a parlor game from the time of doomsayers Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee to Paul Kennedy’s pessimism of the 1980s. Now the most recent serial epitaphs center on the Anglo-American experience in Iraq that will soon end, it is foretold, in defeat and a global loss of American prestige to the detriment of the West at large.
February 27, 2007
Collaborations nº 1520
Why did a majority of Democratic senators — such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Harry Reid, Jay Rockefeller, and Chuck Schumer — vote to authorize a war with Iraq on Oct. 11, 2002? And why is this war now supposedly George Bush's misfortune and not theirs?
February 23, 2007
Collaborations nº 1511
Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic candidate for president, is at it again with another rude gaffe, this one providing an unintended glimpse of the way many contemporary cosmopolitan elites characterize their homeland when abroad.
June 28, 2006
Collaborations nº 1053
Why did the United States suddenly reverse course and agree to negotiate directly with the Iranians over their development of a nuclear arsenal? Descargar PDF
June 21, 2006
Collaborations nº 1036
Despite a public anti-Americanism, individual Europeans extend the old warmth and friendship to American visitors. Yet beneath the veneer of the good life, there is also a detectable air of uncertainty in Europe this summer, one perhaps similar to that of 1914 or the late 1930s. Descargar PDF
March 30, 2006
Collaborations nº 869
In recent weeks prominent conser-vatives — William F. Buckley, Niall Ferguson, Francis Fukuyama, Geor-ge Will, to a name only a very few — have, in various ways, suggested that the war in Iraq was either a mistake or unwinnable, or both. Sometimes such remorse is coupled with louder lamentations about the failed foreign policy of the Bush administration — especially the malevolent influence of neoconser-vatives and their mania for democ-racy. Descargar PDF
March 24, 2006
Collaborations nº 861
We often hear about how incompe-tent the Iraqis, under American tute-lage, have been in trying Saddam Hussein.But compared to the more illustrious court of The Hague, Saddam's trial is racing along at a rapid clip. Descargar PDF
February 28, 2006
Collaborations nº 825
It is easy to damn the 1930s appeas-ers of Hitler — such as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain in England and Edouard Daladier in France — given what the Nazis ultimately did when unleashed. But history demands not merely recog-nizing the truth post facto, but also trying to reconstruct the rationale of something that now in hindsight seems inexplicable. Descargar PDF
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