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Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history.
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New Episode of The Classicist
One Hundred years after the Treaty of Versailles ended World War I, Victor Davis Hanson argues that the effects of the agreement are widely misunderstood. In this episode, we look at Versailles in the context of the wider war (and the wartime diplomacy of the era), examine the American role in World War I, parse the claim that the First World War was little more than a tragic mistake, and scrutinize claims that modern geopolitical tensions have parallels to those of 1914.
New Episode of The Classicist
On the 80th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Victor Davis Hanson reflects on how the short-lived German-Soviet treaty shaped the course of World War II — and what it revealed about the leadership styles of both Hitler and Stalin.
New Episode of The Classicist
Victor Davis Hanson explores the factors driving the social, economic, and political decline of California.
New Episode of The Classicist
Victor Davis Hanson explains why a change in circumstances since the Bush years necessitate a changed approach to the U.S. relationship with Iran.
Latest Issue of Strategika!
The latest issue of Strategika discusses The Value of Economic Sanctions
Victor Davis Hanson is the General Editor of Strategika.
Victor Davis Hanson on Breitbart News Tonight
Victor Davis Hanson talks about his National Review article "Kill Chic."
New Encounter Books Interview
Victor Davis Hanson on Trump’s Unlikely Populism
New Episode of Whiskey Politics
Victor Davis Hanson discusses the damaging disclosure about Obama keeping tabs on the FBI Hillary Clinton email investigation, State Department unmasking, why Hillary’s and Obama’s hubris may be their own downfall and how this can very well be a Watergate or Iran-Contra type scandal.
New Ricochet Podcast
Victor Davis Hanson is featured in a new episode of The Ricochet Podcast.
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Don’t Forget the Other Entitlement Monsters
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine
The continuing attention devoted to the blunders, incompetence, and lies surrounding the
Obamacare rollout is much deserved. But we shouldn’t forget that the President’s health-care monstrosity is merely the latest and biggest of scores of government entitlement programs suffering from the same flawed progressive assumption––that government “experts” armed with coercive power alone can solve problems better left to the states, civil society, and the free market. In reality, such programs relentlessly metastasize, increasing as well fraud, waste, abuse, and costs.
One such program is SNAP, the kinder and gentler name for what we used to call food stamps. Apparently the old coupons were too hurtful, so they have been replaced by the Electronic Benefits Transfer card that looks like a debit or credit card. Over the last decade, SNAP recipients have increased from 21 million to 47 million, 1 in 7 Americans. But benefits paid out have nearly quadrupled from $21 billion to $75 billion. Read more →
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