Here is audio from Victor Davis Hanson's recent speech at Biola.
Following the news day by day can kind of beat up your mind, especially right now with the election, the war, and the financial crisis. These are all big stories that don't fit daily updates very well. Every now and then it's nice to hear from someone with a longer memory, who ...
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The election is not yet. Much can still happen in this crazy year, and I am not in despair but (as a commentator) four things about the nation and election look true to me right now:
First, let me state the obvious: Senator Obama is winning.
As I have often repeated: this is a Democratic year. John McCain was always running up hill with a f...
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Craig Hazen, the director of Biola University's graduate program in Christian apologetics, has written an insightful review of the Bill Maher movie Religulous. It's a documentary I won't be seeing, not because I'm afraid to face criticism of what I believe, but because I've already seen more than enough of Bill Maher's comedy. His style is foul ...
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Victor Davis Hanson spoke twice at Biola University on October 8. His afternoon lecture was on one of his specialties, the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides.
Reading Thucydides has been a standard assignment for students in the Torrey Honors Institute for a long time. But it's a rare student who feels love at first sight for this ...
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The debate tonight was a draw.
I agree with McCain more on the issues, so I thought he won on points, but my bias probably accounts for much of this. However, and maybe I was the only one, tonight for the first time, I became afraid of what both politicians, but especially Senator Obama, are proposing in the middle of this serious economic time...
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Recent research has shown that ten percent of the population is suffering from a serious disorder: Political Addiction Syndrome (PAS). In one study PAS accounted for 6 trillion dollars in lost wages and productivity. Some scholars blame PAS for the present financial turmoil. Over the last eight years approval of questionable mortgages soared as man...
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Phoebe Age Six has drawn three birds flying. She depicts each bird with a severe simplicity: Four ovals, two lines, and dot. The first bird gets a bit of special treatment: the two lines of his beak are expanded to be flattened ovals themselves. Each bird has its own minor distinctions, and the rapid loops with which the artist defined the wing...
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