Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness California once was run by alternating conservatives and mostly centrist Democrats. True, paleo-liberal governors like Pat Brown greatly expanded the welfare state. But they also believed in pushing integration, building freeways, dams, aqueducts, and power plants, while preventing forest fires, directing the mentally ill into state hospitals, and ensuring… Continue reading Recall the California Ideology

Did the Soviet Union Really “win” the war? There is something amoral in even posing such a question given the horrendous loss of Russian life resisting Nazi aggression. Superlatives are exhausted when describing the four-year-long Eastern Front between June 22, 1941 and the surrender of Nazi forces to the Soviets on May 9, 1945. While… Continue reading Historian’s Corner: Some Mythologies of World War II: Part Three:

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in Defining Ideas In the United States’ perennial quest for allies who share goals and contribute their fair share toward security, Ukraine is an exceptional bargain. This was perhaps the most important message that President Volodymir Zelenskiy carried with him to Washington last week in his… Continue reading Ukraine Finds Cold Comfort In White House

Much is lost in the current endeavor to kill Classics in our schools and colleges. VDH recounts the value of classics in this eulogy for the moribund discipline. Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion September 2021 SHOULD THE FORMAL STUDY  of Greece and Rome die—or be killed off? Some classicists seem to think so. An… Continue reading Classical Patricide

How Did Germany Lose a War It Had Won? At the dawn of 1941, there was no expectation in Moscow that Germany would violate the tense but still very much viable August 23, 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or that the U.S. would intervene on Britain’s side. The U.S.S.R. was eager to stay out of any second… Continue reading Historian’s Corner: Some Mythologies of World War II: Part Two:

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness As Joe Biden entered office in January 2021, there still roared a left-wing revolution, a woke madness spreading through popular culture and Congress, much of which he indirectly has aided and abetted. It has redefined not just politics but the rules of the presidency. And the eventual casualty of… Continue reading Biden and the Left-wing Standard of Attacking the President

Get VDH’s “Week In Review” (Issue 24) It has become grim in the last few weeks in the news as you will hear and read below–and probably already know. Please excuse the hiatus in the newsletter distribution. We had and have much going on with the website. But things are smoothing out. This newsletter won’t allow… Continue reading Week In Review

Did Germany Win the World Wars Before It Started a New One? “World War II,” or the Anglicized “Second World War,” began formally on September 1, 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. It ended officially with the surrender of the Japanese on September 2, 1945 on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo… Continue reading Historian’s Corner: Some Mythologies of World War II: Part One:

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The fall of Kabul is not the end, as Joe Biden seems to think, of the Afghanistan nightmare. It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies… Continue reading Is Our Military Woke, Broke or Both?

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Joe Biden’s scripted or no-questions press conferences, and the clean-up afterward by Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Jen Psaki, have been some of the most misleading episodes in modern presidential history—mostly in what was not said rather than was exaggerated, warped, and misrepresented. Biden as Commander-in-Chief The more Joe… Continue reading Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing