Professor Thornton Selected as Regular Contributor to
CaliforniaRepublic.org
Boston, June 3 - Fresno State
Professor Bruce S. Thornton is featured as a regular contributor to
CaliforniaRepublic.org, a leading conservative opinion Web site.
Thornton writes about issues such as cultural conflicts, the war in
Iraq, societal trends and more.
Go to Site
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The Boston Globe Features Fresno State's Classics Professor Victor Davis
Hanson
Boston, May 25 - Fresno State
Professor Victor Davis Hanson is featured in a major article in today's
Boston Globe newspaper. The article traces Dr. Hanson life as a
fifth-generation raisin farmer, a historian of ancient Greece, and
examines how his scholarship is having a major influence in Washington,
D.C. with the President and Vice President.
Go to Article
Classics Program
Audio Clip:
Big Time Academics
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Fresno
State Professor Gains National Renown for Scholarly Analysis of Iraq War
Fresno, April 10 - Fresno State classics
professor
Victor Davis Hanson has earned national recognition as a leading
scholar on U.S. policy and the Iraq conflict. The conservative National
Review magazine has an
archive of Hanson's columns online.
Full Story
FLASH!
Vice
President Cheney Cites Prof Hanson in a speech to the American
Society of Newspaper Editors -
Hanson Opinion Piece in LA Times
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Prof.
Hanson Featured in U.S. News & World Report
Selma, March 11 - Fresno State Professor Victor Davis
Hanson is currently featured in U.S. News & World Report. The
magazine traces how Dr. Hanson's expertise in ancient history is
influencing American political thought. Reporter Andrew Curry
says: "In recent months
Hanson has become a familiar name across the country in
Washington, talking with the vice president and his advisers about
the lessons history offers modern-day decision makers. His
message...America shouldn't be afraid to use its power in defense
of what he calls western values, and that throughout history such
action has been both justified and eventually vindicated."
Full Story
Classics Program
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Fresno State Professor Victor Davis Hanson Wins
National Award for Excellence in Journalism
New York, June 12 -- California State University, Fresno
Classics professor Victor Davis Hanson was presented the Eric
Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism this week at the
Harvard Club in New York City.
Hanson, a prolific author, columnist and editorial writer for
several national publications, received the award from New York
City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Fox News Channel Chairman and CEO
Roger Ailes and Newsweek Senior Editor Elizabeth Weymouth.
[Full Story]
[NY Post
Editorial] [National
Review]
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Read Professor Hanson's Commencement to
St. John's College
Annapolis, Maryland, Sunday (May 12) --
The New Old Education
"What you have read, how you have been taught, and why you are at
St. John’s have all made you uniquely educated in America today.
Rather than being prepped on the latest –ism of the day, or
made aware of the paradigm shift of the week, you are now of the
Old Breed—strange folk more at home in an age long past than with
the majority here in the present. By your very
apprenticeship here at St. John’s, you have been anointed as
stewards of the ancient knowledge—the rare few who accept Homer’s
brutal truth, who are disturbed by Thucydides’ portrait of human
nature, and who perhaps wish Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Nieztsche
were not so wise so often.... [Full
Text]
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Professor
Hanson Analyzes Views of Palestinian Conflict in National Review
New York,
Mar. 29 -- Fresno State professor Victor Davis Hanson takes a hard
look in today's
National
Review at the problems of "moral equivalence" and ignorance of
historical context in the Palestinian issue.
[Full
Article]
[Davis
Bio]
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Professor Hanson Featured in Wall
Street Journal
New York, Feb. 27 -- Fresno State
Classics Professor Victor Davis Hanson is featured in the Wall
Street Journal Online with a analysis of Muslim misunderstanding
of the West.
[Full Story]
[Bio]
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Thornton Featured in Opinion Magazine
Los
Angeles, Feb. 7 -- Fresno State Classics Professor Bruce
Thornton is featured in the current edition of
FrontPage Magazine.
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Hanson on
NPR Live National Show
New
York, Feb. 4 -- Victor Davis Hanson, Fresno State Classics
prof and military expert, will be featured on two National Public
Radio shows this week including a live national airing today (Feb.
4) at 11 a.m. PDT on the Neill Conan show discussing the family
farm. He will do today’s live interview via telephone from the
Fresno State campus.
On Wednesday, he will be on the
Glenn Mitchell Show in Dallas (KERA-FM)
to discuss his recent
American Heritage cover article on his expertise regarding the
war in Afghanistan. This will also be live via telephone from the
Fresno State campus at 11 a.m. PDT. Today’s national show
can be heard in
rebroadcast form on the web at 3 p.m. Pacific Time. The
program is not broadcast live in Fresno on KVPR nor is it
available live on the Web. The Wednesday Dallas show is aired in
north Texas but can be heard live on the web at
KERA-FM.
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Professor Hanson Cited in Major Atlantic Monthly Article
New
York, Jan. 15 -- Noted author David Brooks cites Fresno State
professor Victor Davis Hanson in an article on America's
preparedness for war in this month's edition of
The Atlantic Monthly magazine.
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Victor Davis Hanson Featured in
National Media
Fresno, Jan. 2 -- Fresno State classics professor
Victor Davis Hanson was
hailed in national media reports this week. His latest column on winners
and Losers after Afghanistan is featured in the National Review.
Columnist George Will cited Hanson's book "The Soul
of Battle" in a national column.
World Magazine hailed Hanson as "one of the few pundits who
predicted the overwhelming victory American forces would have in
Afghanistan."
Atlantic Monthly also featured Hanson.
[Hanson Bio]
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Dr. Hanson Featured in National
Review Magazine
Fresno, Dec. 28, 2001 -- Classics Professor
and military historian Victor Davis Hanson, a regular columnist
for the National Review Online, has been interviewed by media
throughout the country about terrorism and the war in
Afghanistan. Here's
his page at the National Review Magazine, one of the top
two political magazines in the U.S.
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Bonfire Author Visits "Politically Incorrect" Once
Again
Los
Angeles, Dec. 4, 2001 -- The third time was a charm for Bruce
Thornton, co-author of Bonfire of the Humanities and author
of Plagues of the Mind, who was once again a guest on ABC's
"Politically Incorrect"
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City Journal: What Made Them Do Their Duty?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Autumn, 2001 -- "From the very first moments of the World
Trade Center horror, the valor and élan of New York's firemen,
together with that of the city's police and emergency forces, have
transfixed the whole nation—especially us in rural America who
rarely see the real Gotham. Danger was nothing to them, courage
and honor everything."
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Fresno State Authors Featured at Fig Garden
Bookstore
Fresno, Sept. 6, 2001 -- Three faculty members from California
State University, Fresno will be signing and reading from their
new books on consecutive Saturdays in September at Fig Garden
Bookstore in Fig Garden Village in Fresno. One of the events will
be filmed for Book TV on C-SPAN2. All three are from 1-3 p.m.
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A Night of Honor at Fresno State
Fresno, April 4, 2001 -- Several hundred people gathered at
Fresno State tonight to honor students who had qualified for the
nation's largest and oldest collegiate honor society, Phi Kappa
Phi. Special recognition was made by the society to Bruce
Thornton, professor.
