2021

The Great Leftist Bully Boy Hope

The refined and moral Left places itself on a pedestal, above the fray—and as such it has a natural attraction to those in its midst who do not. Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness By any empirical measure, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proven utterly disingenuous, and far more so than average politicians. Unlike

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VDH UltraEeyore’s Cabinet: Trumpistics

Victor Davis Hanson // VDH’s Blade of Perseus Part Two: The Phoenix Trump? August is not January. In politics even a week is a lifetime. Mirabile dictu, Trump’s banishment from social media, means far less of his scattergun tweeting. His memos were rarer, his thoughts better composed. Although the media monopolized the public image of Trump,

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VDH UltraEeyore’s Cabinet: Trumpistics

Victor Davis Hanson // VDH’s Blade of Perseus Part One: Trump, RIP? In January-February 2021, Trump’s future was problematic. He was kicked off social media. And without his accustomed megaphones, Trump for the first time in years was unable to reach supporters and the public at large. Thus, the hate-Trump media filled the void and

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Vaccination Weaponization

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness It was always going to be Herculean to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million, across a vast continent—in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news.  Some minorities understandably harbored distrust of prior government vaccination programs.  Nearly 40 million foreign residents in America are

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The Classicist: The Three C’s and More

Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Cuomo allegations, California recall, and real courage. They end with a discussion of woke and how it compromises quality for airline industries, US military and Hollywood et al. Share This

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Strategika #74: The Prospects of a New Iran Deal

Iran’s Nuclear Program Please read a new essay by my colleague, Peter R. Mansoor in Strategika. The Biden administration came into office with the hope of reentering the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—the nuclear deal with Iran—and thereby reduce tensions in the Middle East, an area of the world to which it would rather

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