2025

A Newsom Nihilist Nomination?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As California Governor Gavin Newsom gears up to run for president, what in the world will he run on? Californians know that Newsom will not boast, “I will do for America what I have done to California!” Why not? Count the reasons. California’s astronomical gas prices and taxes remain the highest in

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VDH UltraIs Trump Chemotherapy Worse than the Biden Cancer? Part One

Victor Davis Hanson The medicine is sometimes worse than the disease. Or that is what the Left now means with its widespread attack “on affordability,” ICE enforcement, and the military. Leftists are now not arguing that the past four Biden years did not damage the economy, erase the border, destroy deterrence abroad, weaponize the government,

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VDH UltraWhy Exactly Do Americans Support Israel? Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson 4) Most of the hatred of Israel is prompted not by what it does but by what it is—a successful Jewish state that fuels anti-Semitism and envy. There are dozens of disputed or “occupied” areas in nations abroad. Yet most of the world’s critical attention turns only to Gaza and the West

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The War in Ukraine: Lots of Questions and a Few Answers

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Why did the war in Ukraine start in 2021? As in 2008 and 2012, but unlike 2017 to 2021, Vladimir Putin sensed an American president would not or could not deter him, so he invaded a former Soviet republic. Under past presidents, Putin saw no downside to grabbing Ossetia, the

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VDH UltraWhy Blue States Aren’t Having Babies

Description: On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc have a fertile discussion on why blue states have a lower birth rate than red states and other things that indicate crisis in the west, to which Donald Trump’s administration is responding. Share This

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