by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review To everything, there is a season. America has always enjoyed two antithetical traditions in its political and military heroes. The preferred style is the reticent, sober, and competent executive planner as president or general, from Herbert Hoover to Gerald Ford to Jimmy Carter. George […]
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The New Yorker Book Review By Joshua Rothman December 23, 2017 Photograph by FPG / Hulton Archive / Getty Victor Davis Hanson’s “The Second World Wars” is not a chronological retelling of the conflict but a high-altitude, statistics-saturated overview of the dynamics and constraints that shaped it. In 1936, Charles Lindbergh arrived in Berlin to
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by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review Nature this year is predictably not cooperating with California. Rarely has such a naturally rich and scenic region become so mismanaged by so many creative and well-intentioned people. In California, Yuletide rush hours are apparently the perfect time for state workers to shut down major freeways
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by Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas Image credit: Barbara Kelley In the pre-Internet age, newspaper and television reporters would need clearance from their nosy managing editors to investigate a breaking scandal or firing. Additional journalists then would go to work uncovering facts and details. There were, to be sure, feeding frenzies and misinformation in the
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by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review If Trump would let his deeds speak for themselves, he would quiet his enemies far more than he does with Twitter broadsides. No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . . And
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Santa’s Book Bag By Larry Thornberry // The American Spectator A magnificent contribution from Victor Davis Hanson. The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won By Victor Davis Hanson (Basic Books, 652 pages, $40) Yes, Virginia, after thousands of books, lectures, debates, veteran memoirs, and documentaries, there is still something
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By John Fonte| December 15, 2017 American Greatness The crucial question for the American Right today, as it has been for at least 60 years, is: What is the nature of its confrontation with modern liberalism? Is it a policy argument over how to achieve the common goals of liberal democracy? Are we working to
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by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review By now, the president’s record has transcended his social-media idiosyncrasies. Almost every supposedly informed prediction about President Donald Trump’s compulsive Twitter addiction has so far proved wrong. He did not tweet his way out of the Republican nomination. Spontaneous social-media messaging did not lose Trump the
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by Victor Davis Hanson//National Review Stacking the deck with anti-Trump staffers is proving to be a really bad idea. Special prosecutors, investigators, and counsels are usually a bad idea. They are admissions that constitutionally mandated institutions don’t work — and can be rescued only by supposed superhuman moralists, who are without the innate
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Axis powers miscalculated after early advantages in World War II, Stanford scholar says By 1942, the Axis powers seemed invincible. But the course of the war soon changed in ways that offer lessons for the U.S. and its allies in today’s world, said Victor Davis Hanson, a Hoover Institution senior fellow. By Clifton B.
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