2023

One Sick War

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There is something surreal, even sick about the current Gazan war. Throughout European and American cities and campuses, tens of thousands of Middle East immigrants and students, and radical leftists chant nonstop “Free Palestinian from the River to the Sea.” More recently, they are also yelling, “Israel, you can’t hide, […]

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VDH UltraWho Created the Monsters Among Us?

Victor Davis Hanson Students at UCLA and on other campuses, some of them on foreign student visas, and others on some sort of taxpayer-funded support, are now marching with the chant, “Israel, Israel you cannot hide, we charge you with genocide.” So, Hamas gunmen break into Israel, slaughter over 1,000 civilians, mutilate them, behead some,

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VDH UltraA New Generation of Monsters?

Victor Davis Hanson What are we to think after watching the demonstrations on our campuses that broke out after the Hamas butchery, but even before the Israeli response? 1) That this generation of college students who mouth “apartheid” or “colonization” know nothing about either? And why not, given their curricula are entirely therapeutic? Would these

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A Therapeutic Middle East Versus A Tragic One

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Classical diplomacy warns leaders to be neither obsequious and appeasing abroad, nor gratuitously boastful and hard-headed. The usual advice is don’t-tread-on-me resoluteness, or what Teddy Roosevelt characterized as “speak softly and carry a big stick.” The alternatives – whether “speak loudly and carry a twig,” “speak softly and carry a

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The First Gulf War and Middle East Diplomacy

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the First Gulf War under George Bush Sr. after some news about new evidence on Hamas killings, China’s interests in the Middle East and Newsom’s interest in China. Share This

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Speakers, Terrorist and Opportunists

In this news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc review the speaker choices, diplomatic tarrying with Israel, Hamas the death cult, Iran’s strategic interest and the Jewish left obsession. Share This

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VDH UltraMiddle Eastern Mysteries

Victor Davis Hanson Try to fathom the following unimaginable: 1) Why do Middle Eastern terrorists when committing murder and mayhem dress in casual civilian clothes, but when there is no danger their “commanders” usually for photo-ops outfit themselves in fatigues? Should it not be reversed: the killers wear uniforms, and their “civilian” overseers do not?

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An Interview with Governor DeSantis

Victor Davis Hanson has an engaging and thought-provoking one-on-one conversation with Florida Governor and 2024 GOP Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. Victor and Governor DeSantis discuss the Governor’s response to the Hamas attack on Israel, what actions he’s taken to help Americans in Israel evacuate and return the U.S., the steps DeSantis has taken to ban

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Premodern Diversity Vs. Civilizational Unity

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Few Romans in the late decades of their 5th-century AD empire celebrated their newfound “diversity” of marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals. These tribes en masse had crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty without a care about what had created it. Their agendas were

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