2024

VDH UltraDear Not So Angry Reader Barbara Toncheff, Part Two

II. In contrast to Lee, Sherman was a grand strategist, who viewed war as an elemental conflict of finance, economics, sociology, politics, and natural and human resources. For all his verbal crudity and argumentative nature, Sherman was at heart a humanist who despised war and carnage and did his best to win the war with […]

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2024—America’s Year of Living Dangerously

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Lame-duck presidencies, especially in the last six months of their final term, in general can offer opportunities for America’s enemies to take advantage of a perceived vacuum as one government transitions to the next. But these normal changeover months are especially dangerous when a perceived weak or appeasing lame-duck president

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Victor Davis Hanson Show

Houthis Terrorists, Trump Chasers, and Rare Moments at Davos

In this Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss governor Brian Kemp avoiding charges against Fani Willis, Houthis terrorism, two Navy seals lost off the coast of Somalia, rhetoric about Trump and the post-Iowa caucus game plans, Davos dignitaries talked to by Javier Milei, Jamie Dimon’s truth-about-Trump interview, and false information

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The Hysterical Style in American Politics

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long-standing right-wing “paranoid style” of conspiracy-fed extremism. But far more common, especially in the 21st century, has been a left-wing, hysterical style of inventing scandals and manipulating perceived tensions for

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VDH UltraAngry Reader 01-17-2024

From An Angry Reader: FROM MICHEAL (sic) JORDAN: Your recent commentary on the resignation of Harvard’s president was nothing more than white supremacist drivel. No one benefits more in this country than white males, so who’s playing the race/victim card exactly? Fucking maroon! Dear Micheal (sic) Jordan, You earn at least an eight on the

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VDH UltraThe DEI Ruse Is Imploding. Part Four

Victor Davis Hanson Epitaph DEI is racist. After lying before Congress that she had to consider “context” and “free speech” before considering discipling anti-Jewish behavior and speech on her Harvard campus, and after being caught plagiarizing in some 60 percent of her meager scholarly output, Claudine Gay pulled out all the racist stops to save

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