CNN and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes are of the opinion that President Donald Trump, who has chosen the sword over the pen, will get a far worse deal out of the mullahs in Iran than his predecessor, Barack Obama. What did Iran get out of its deal with Obama, you might ask? […]
In this episode of The Western Spirit, Ariel Whitman speaks with Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, about the growing divide inside the American right. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson contextualizes and comments on the ongoing quarrel between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV over US foreign policy and the Iran War. Share This
President Donald Trump looked at the Iranian regime’s strategy to close the Strait of Hormuz and simply flipped it upside down. The difference between the United States and Iran is that one of us can live while the strait is closed, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own
While it was unwise for President Donald Trump to attack Pope Leo in such a public manner, the Pope himself should know better than to wade into partisan politics in a time of war, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” featuring co-host Jack Fowler. Jack and
California’s problems didn’t happen overnight—they’re the result of decades of policy choices that prioritized ideology over infrastructure, energy, and economic reality. Victor Davis Hanson argues the state abandoned its fundamentals, while Elaine Culotti points to runaway bureaucracy, middlemen siphoning public funds, and mandates that burden working families. They challenge the sustainability of a system dependent
Victor Davis Hanson These anti-war protests reflect the Left’s Chaos Theory. It dictates that there is no need for a counter-agenda or a principled opposition. Instead, the strategy is to become so foul-mouthed, so repulsive, so chaotic, so disruptive, and so nutty that the proverbial American voter hears or sees the mayhem, falls into a
Victor Davis Hanson Given the administration has provided clear aims, given the war is going well, and given the world is watching in quiet glee that the odious theocracy is dissembling, why the furious hysteria here at home? Watch as communists are protesting the war with calcified hammer-and-sickle banners as if they have no clue
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The prognosis of the Iran War is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the situation is so fluid that any accurate prediction is impossible. Yet there is good
If you take anything away from Rep. Eric Swalwell’s resignation, it should be the following: Whether a democratic politician actually abused, sexually harassed, sexually assaulted someone is not of importance to the Democratic hierarchy. What’s important is the status of that person’s political viability. Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss Swalwell dropping out of