2025

Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the October 7 massacres. An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of threats of violence from Muslim minorities. In the West, when an Islamist shoots a Jew, politicians often offer […]

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VDH UltraDems are Lying but not Baiting

Victor Davis Hanson uses the 1992 presidential election to argue that Democrats’ heckling about affordability is not an issue to leave uncontested for 2026. (Friday Ultra) Share This

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Can the Dark Ages Return?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece. But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism, liberty, freedom of expression, self-critique, and free markets—what we know

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VDH UltraHow DEI Hurts America, Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson 5. Why is DEI dying? Like all commissariats, DEI is expensive. It requires legions of drone commissars to monitor and audit ideology—in this case, tribal essentialism. How many nonproductive auditors as overhead can a society afford? Go back into time and ask the former Soviet Union or Mao’s failed Cultural Revolutionaries? And

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