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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
With a new wave of congressional progressives claiming America is insufficiently committed to social justice, Victor Davis Hanson defends the country’s history of progress — and explains why it was dependent on traditions of western civilization that the critics now denounce.
New Episode of The Classicist
Victor Davis Hanson examines the strategic calculations behind China’s economic, political, military, and cultural initiatives.
New Episode of The Classicist
Victor Davis Hanson chronicles the factors that have led to the decline of American higher education and considers the prospects for recovery.
New Episode of The Classicist
Victor Davis Hanson looks at the current debate over immigration and the border wall, arguing that illegal immigration from Latin America actually subverts the goal of a more diverse country.
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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