2026

The Graveyard of Destructive Ideas

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support—and are not Western nations supposedly rationally governed? There is usually a multi-step process on the road to these self-destructive fits of society-wide insanity. The suicidal […]

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Is There a Trump Great Game?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Critics of Trump’s second-term foreign policy—the usual Left and some on the neo-isolationist Right—claim it is recklessly herky jerky and guided by no consistent grand strategy. Yet, in both the first Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper and its second-term update, he clearly disdained ground wars abroad, nation-building, and isolationism.

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Education Is the Transmission of Culture, So Are We Still Passing Down What Matters?

Education is “inherently a historical project” because it’s the generational passing down of culture. This “transmission of culture,” or classical liberal education, has been eroded over the past century, however, explains Andrew Zwerneman, president of Cana Academy.  “The first major assault came with the progressivist movement which increasingly divorced education from religion and increasingly made

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VDH UltraEducation Is the Transmission of Culture, So Are We Still Passing Down What Matters?

Education is “inherently a historical project” because it’s the generational passing down of culture. This “transmission of culture,” or classical liberal education, has been eroded over the past century, however, explains Andrew Zwerneman, president of Cana Academy.  “The first major assault came with the progressivist movement which increasingly divorced education from religion and increasingly made

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VDH UltraAbsurdities of Our Age

Victor Davis Hanson Despite Bernie Sanders’ rants, four out of ten American households pay no income tax. And the bottom fifty percent in income, of those who do pay income tax, account for less than 3% of all federal income tax revenue. The top 50 percent of households pay 97% of all federal taxes. About

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VDH UltraNot Angry Readers

Good Evening Mr. Hanson I listened to your video on the Minnesota Hypocritical Insurrectionists.. .all I see are angry people who are so angry they cannot think anything else but anger. I have watched a lot of sensible commentators explaining what is going on in Minnesota and I think they fail to see the underlying

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AOC Makes Kamala Harris Sound Like Socrates, Cicero

VDH critiques a Munich Security Conference panel, contrasting Matt Whitaker’s professionalism with AOC’s Taiwan “word salad” and Whitmer’s reluctance to address foreign policy, and also criticizes Hillary Clinton’s performance. Also discussed is why Putin may resist a Ukraine deal despite major losses and how Ukraine’s drone-focused defense is evolving. He praises Elon Musk for reviving

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VDH UltraAOC Makes Kamala Harris Sound Like Socrates, Cicero

VDH critiques a Munich Security Conference panel, contrasting Matt Whitaker’s professionalism with AOC’s Taiwan “word salad” and Whitmer’s reluctance to address foreign policy, and also criticizes Hillary Clinton’s performance. Also discussed is why Putin may resist a Ukraine deal despite major losses and how Ukraine’s drone-focused defense is evolving. He praises Elon Musk for reviving

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