2021
Donald J. Trump: Joe Biden’s Best Friend
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The Pavlovian “Trump did it!” sums up Joe Biden’s fallback excuse when faced with any embarrassment. His own completely optional, self-created, illegal immigration disaster? Trump somehow caused it, despite leaving office with a stable and secure border. Vaccination rates soaring? There would be even more if not for Trump’s
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Not-At-All-Angry Reader Jacob
Dear Professor Hanson, As all good and bad things from the US eventually wash over my small country, Denmark, I just wanted to thank you deeply for your efforts. Please understand that the disasters facing the US at present from identity politics, an almost overtly lying media, leadership that basically uses fiction to steer by,
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Mythologizing the Past
In our moment of “woke” , do not let the Left cancel out the memories of your childhood. We must not agree that the 1950s and 1960s were times of evil. They were not. Westerns like the Searchers, High Noon, Shane, The Magnificent Seven, and Hombre all explored themes of racial prejudice, of the individual
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Optimism Inc
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers THE MORE PESSIMISTIC the CDC, Dr. Fauci, and the Biden Administration sound on the pandemic, the more cautiously optimistic I become, albeit as a non-medical observer of the pandemic. I also do not mean that as a contrarian, but, after all, we are approaching a perfect storm of events
Radical New Rules for Post-America
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently. 1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much. Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits. But at least there were some concessions that the money
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