2021

West’s ‘wokeness’ helped Russia to redefine a ‘prisoner of conscience’

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill By forcing the standards of “wokeness” on a Western institution like Amnesty International, the Kremlin has weakened Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny as he begins his almost three years in a penal colony near Vladimir (190 km from Moscow). Everyone understands he is a political prisoner, […]

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Was COVID-19 Our Neutron Bomb?

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In the 1970s and 1980s, furor arose over our possible use of the “neutron bomb” that macabrely would “kill people, but not destroy property.” The logic of the perverse weapon was that on allied and friendly European ground, outnumbered defensive NATO troops might radiate and destroy invading masses of

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Losing An American Genius

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Rush Limbaugh created modern national talk radio as we now know it—from nothing. For over three decades he kept at rapt attention weekdays—live from noon to three—the largest conservative audience in broadcast history. Over 15 million tuned in each week.  Last week—32 years, and over 23,000 hours of on-air

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Is the Biden Administration Stumbling into War?

Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness What causes wars? Innately aggressive cultures and governments, megalomania, the desire for power, resources, and empire prompt nations to bully or attack others. Less rational Thucydidean motives such as fear and honor and perceptions of self-interest are not to be discounted either.  But what allows these preemptive or aggressive

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