2025

The Democrats’ October Surprises

On today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor and Jack list off and examine a few of the Democrat Party’s’ own self-inflicted surprises this October: Abigail Spanberger’s calamitous performance in the first and only 2025 Virginia Gubernatorial debate, and the strategy behind the Democrats’ unpopular government shutdown. Share This

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VDH UltraRemembering the Same Old, Same Old Protests—Now and 50 Years Ago. Part Five

Victor Davis Hanson As we walked out of the now deserted class, Billy suddenly seemed upset and added, “We need to split up and get the f**k out of here.” And I said, “Why? They started it, and they were the violent ones. We were just staying in the class we paid for.” He said

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The Pieces of Trump’s Peace

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What did Donald Trump do differently to obtain at least temporary calm in the Middle East compared to the failed efforts of past administrations, foreign powers, and the United Nations? Let us count ten different approaches. Trump curtailed a considerable amount of Iranian oil income and its dispersal. He stopped,

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About The “Jews”

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Van Jones, the CNN host and commentator, recently complained that neither the global left nor the mainstream media are covering the horrific violence against Nigerian civilians by Islamic terrorists. True, they are not reporting the slaughter. Truer still, they should be. However, Van Jones went completely off the rails when he blamed “the

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VDH UltraRemembering the Same Old, Same Old Protests—Now and 50 Years Ago. Part Four

Victor Davis Hanson My next occasion with the anti-war, Che Guevara, Santa Cruz Left followed the next spring, 1973. These were the final gasps of anti-war protests sputtering out over the very end of the Cambodia misadventure, with the U.S. Air Force bombing of Cambodia to save the pro-American Lon Nol government (the tail end

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VDH UltraRemembering the Same Old, Same Old Protestors—Now and 50 Υears Ago. Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson Oddly, I was not quite the final one to leave the amphitheater. The speaker herself also had strangely lingered to the last. So, by accident, I met a complete stranger, but apparently a well-known campus radical, at the very moment I reached the main exit aisle. We were the last two there.

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Reactionary, Neo-Confederate Portland

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In blue cities across America—Portland, Oregon, especially—often violent protesters now seek to surround ICE facilities to stop federal officers from fulfilling their assigned and legal duties of arresting illegal aliens. Some 10 million or more illegal aliens were allowed to enter the U.S. during the Biden years—illegally and thus without

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