Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness President-elect Donald Trump recently had a “talk” with newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum about the millions who have crossed through Mexico to enter the U.S. illegally. Afterwards, Trump reported that their conversation went well, and supposedly both had agreed to secure the U.S. border. But given long-standing, de facto […]
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Join the weekend episode in which Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about U.S. bombing campaigns in World War II, drones over the Pentagon, Gavin wants to get Elon, Tom Homan on Denver’s mayor, Kamala’s internal polls, and Kamala’s post-campaign speech. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense 2. Hegseth would likely take a hard look at the 1-4 star general/admiral class and conclude: a) there are in general too many generals and admirals; b) there are far too many incompetent and politicized generals and admirals who have a demonstrable record of failure, especially during the
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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this Friday news roundup: Israel-Lebanon cease-fire, Trump tariffs, the blue-state model, Hollywood leaving, Stanford censure, DEI dying, and Trump appointments. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility. Gifting to most universities has been
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In this Thanksgiving episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the International Criminal Court’s unwarranted arrest warrant for Netanyahu, coming troubles in Mexico, anti-Semitism in Europe, the case for Trump revisited, MSNBC addresses the cultural shift, the legacy of William F. Buckley, and things to appreciate on Thanksgiving. Share This
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Víctor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense What are the pros and cons of the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Defense Secretary (in the context of the accepted norms for DOD secretary nominees in the past)? Pros On the plus side, Hegseth is a combat veteran of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After
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Victor Davis Hanson So, what were the standards that Gaetz did not meet? Or rather were current critics prior critics when there was questionable conduct at the DOJ? Do we remember Obama’s AGs Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch? Eric Holder flagrantly described his supposedly autonomous relationship with President Obama obsequiously as Obama’s “wingman.” He refused
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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for the latest on illegal immigration and the Hispanic constituency, tone-deaf sanctuary-city policy in LA, how the election pulled the US back from revolutionary destruction, revolutionary justice and Daniel Penny, the Jaguar ad, the weakness of the case against Pete Hegseth, and Trump is the counter-revolutionary. Share
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Donald Trump will not be president for almost another two months. Yet Democrat politicians, both federal and local, vie to be the most strident in denouncing his plans to begin deporting millions of foreign nationals who, over the last four years, have entered the U.S. illegally. Trump pledges to focus initially only on the 400,000
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