East Vs. West (April/May 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 2)

East Vs. West

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April/May 2002 | Volume 53, Issue 2


Despite Victor Davis Hanson’s arguments, all our might has not stopped fascism—or any other maladies of the spirit that plague the world and have given us the God-awful litany of carnage he describes in this monumentally depressing article. Its dismissive tone about the peace movement—the use of a couple of Hollywood characters to make the point—suggests there have been no epic struggles for peace. Yet the only answer is peace: peace, humanitarianism, sharing, negotiation. Down Hanson’s road is nothing.