2017

Christmas Lessons from California

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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The Internet Executioner

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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From Angry Reader Jeffrey Rowland So…after one year in office, Trump’s biggest (AND ONLY!) accomplishment is that he is King of Twitter? You must be very proud. By the way, how’s that Trumpcare thing workin’ out for ya?  Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!  Idiot. Moron. Buffoon. Simpleton. Test Tube Baby! ______________________________________________________________________________ Dear Angry Reader Jeffrey Rowland, …

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From An Angry Reader: Dear Mr. Hanson, I just finished your article about Trump’s tweets and it has moved me to ask a question. I was wondering if quite possibly, you’ve lost your mind? You write as if his tweets are harmless and of no consequence when they have caused the North Korean situation to …

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Is Trump an Island?

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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From An Angry Reader: Victor David Hanson, you’d sweep the table. Your post-tweet Presidency column entry tops all possible contenders in its unique blend of so-bad-its-good upending suspension of logic and unearned laudatory excess that the academy is bereft of adequate means of expression to honor its achievements.  Perhaps its heaps and heaps of praises …

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The War of Wars Analyzed to the Third Decimal Place

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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Disruptive Politics in the Trump Era: Yuval Levin or Victor Davis Hanson?

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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