Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Ukrainians, and many Europeans and Americans, are defining an envisioned Ukrainian victory as the complete expulsion of all Russians from its 2013 borders. Or, as a Ukrainian national security chief put it, the war ends with Ukrainian tanks in Red Square. But mysteries remain about such ambitious agendas. What would […]
Victor Davis Hanson When Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley bragged that he was focusing on “white rage,” Americans assumed that he had time for such distractions because the army would secure Afghanistan, the air force would keep our skies free of Chinese spy balloons, and the military in general had plenty
Victor Davis Hanson In October 1942, after losing over 7 million Soviet soldiers in some of the largest encirclements in history at Kiev and Bryansk, Joseph Stalin finally suspended the active role of his once pet commissars, zealots, and snitches. Previously the Kremlin had applied ideological litmus tests to all military promotions, rewards, punishments, and
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for the latest news: the impact of the Trump indictment, Biden family China nexus, banking crisis following SVB failure, Left’s destruction of culture, ISIS resurgent in Afghanistan and an update on the war in Ukraine. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Stanford was once one of the world’s great universities. It birthed Silicon Valley in its prime. And along with its nearby twin and rival, UC Berkeley, its brilliant researchers, and teachers helped fuel the mid-20th-century California miracle. That was then. But like the descent of California, now something has gone
VDH talks with Roger Kimball about his directorship of Encounter Books and The New Criterion, the craziness on campuses, and the upcoming Republican primaries. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson 5. The Ukrainian Impeachment call. Donald Trump did not stop approved shipments of offensive weapons to Ukraine in exchange for investigating the Bidens. He simply delayed arms shipments that the Obama-Biden administration had strictly prohibited. Indeed, he ultimately sent them. Trump had good reason to be suspicious of the Ukrainian government given
On this episode, listen as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Michael Caine’s performance in the 1964 war film Zulu, the Twitter Files hearings on Capitol Hill and the insanity of President Biden‘s $6.8 trillion proposed budget. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome. Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies,
Victor Davis Hanson 3. The Pangolin/Bat Myth Almost immediately after the arrival of the coronavirus, the public, some brave scientists, and intelligence officers were convinced that the engineered virus escaped the Wuhan lab because: 1) The Chinese suppressed most information about the lab’s work on the virus. 2) There were virulent attacks on those who