Tucker Carlson favored putting America’s strategic relationship with the Gulf states, most namely Qatar, ahead of Israel, arguing that the Jewish state was a “completely insignificant country” with “no resources,” during the Doha Forum earlier this month. VDH responds to Carlson’s claims that Israel offers little strategic value to the United States, laying out Israel’s […]
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
VDH and Jack take aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s trash talking America and how mass immigration without assimilation gives you what you’re seeing in Minnesota. Share This
VDH and Sami dissect Australia’s reaction to the Hanukkah massacre and how the West downplays antisemitic violence. Share This
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
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
VDH and Jack discuss immigration and gun control in the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia, the reaction of Trump to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, and the Left’s response to all of it. Share This
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
Victor Davis Hanson 4. What were the costs to America of DEI? Once race, sex, and sexual orientation were pronounced proof of victimization, then preferences and exemptions obviated the very tenets of civilization, law, and culture. Swarm the border, enter unlawfully, reside illegally—and what followed? De facto amnesty and non-enforcement of laws. Subsidies for housing,
VDH and Jack discuss former President Joe Biden’s failure to make sure our adversaries in Syria paid a cost for attacking Americans, and the failure of so many immigrants to say “thank you” for all we do. Share This