From One Assassination Attempt to the Next: Mainstreaming Violence Against a President
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Same Old, Same Old: Target Trump At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt—this time in full view of the Washington press corps. The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump. After 11 years of avoiding the predominantly left-wing […]
Southern Poverty Law Center Under Fire: Allegations of Funding Extremists, Plus Iran Strategy
New allegations against the Southern Poverty Law Center this week raise serious questions about how donor money may have been used behind the scenes. Like fire brigades in ancient Rome accused of lighting the fires they responded to, the Southern Poverty Law Center is accused of ginning up the same white supremacist violence they fundraised […]
VDH UltraSouthern Poverty Law Center Under Fire: Allegations of Funding Extremists, Plus Iran Strategy
New allegations against the Southern Poverty Law Center this week raise serious questions about how donor money may have been used behind the scenes. Like fire brigades in ancient Rome accused of lighting the fires they responded to, the Southern Poverty Law Center is accused of ginning up the same white supremacist violence they fundraised […]
The Many Inauthentic Faces Democrats Try and Fail to Wear
Iran is losing resources but trying to survive by delaying negotiations while being resupplied via rail links to China and routes across the Caspian. Tightening the blockade and targeting infrastructure if Iran escalates would hasten collapse and could lead to eventual regime change, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In […]
VDH UltraThe Many Inauthentic Faces Democrats Try and Fail to Wear
Iran is losing resources but trying to survive by delaying negotiations while being resupplied via rail links to China and routes across the Caspian. Tightening the blockade and targeting infrastructure if Iran escalates would hasten collapse and could lead to eventual regime change, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In […]
VDH UltraThe Left’s Anti-Trump Jihad
Victor Davis Hanson examines Europe’s short-sighted indifference toward American basing requests and the Left’s ongoing effort to score political victory at home against President Trump by humiliating the United States abroad.
How Iran Committed Suicide
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness How does the supposedly most fearsome regime in the violent Middle East now find itself on the verge of an utter economic and military collapse? Iran’s half-century-long deadly terrorist reputation peaked with the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel that it helped fund and coordinate. Iran’s terrorist ambitions of running […]
VDH UltraJohn Brennan’s ‘Rendezvous’ With Accountability Couldn’t Come Sooner
The U.S. Department of Justice’s probe into the former CIA chief will hopefully lay bare John Brennan’s sins, which were years in the making. “We got to remember that this is a man that went before Congress under oath as head of the CIA, and had the CIA under his direction spying on U.S. senators. […]
John Brennan’s ‘Rendezvous’ With Accountability Couldn’t Come Sooner
The U.S. Department of Justice’s probe into the former CIA chief will hopefully lay bare John Brennan’s sins, which were years in the making. “We got to remember that this is a man that went before Congress under oath as head of the CIA, and had the CIA under his direction spying on U.S. senators. […]
VDH UltraInteresting and Strange People I Have Met: An Evening with Rod Serling, Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson The only irritating element about the series (which bothered my mother to no end) was that as the crowds grew larger and the speakers more famous, and my dad as the MC more prominent (who really was in his quiet way a renaissance man: bemedaled World War II B-29 hero, farmer, football […]
All the Dream Houses of the Left
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Pseudo-Heroes It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to either its generic Trump Derangement Syndrome or the attendant Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner obsessive/compulsive disorder. But the crazy world of the Left increasingly bears scant resemblance to reality. In this alternate […]
Clarence Thomas Body Slams Progressivism
Iran’s fractured leadership can’t be trusted and President Donald Trump’s sequencing—destroying air defenses and nuclear/military infrastructure, then negotiating while imposing a costly blockade—puts time against Tehran and enables U.S. dictation rather than an Obama-style deal, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Hanson also discusses the upcoming […]
VDH UltraClarence Thomas Body Slams Progressivism
Iran’s fractured leadership can’t be trusted and President Donald Trump’s sequencing—destroying air defenses and nuclear/military infrastructure, then negotiating while imposing a costly blockade—puts time against Tehran and enables U.S. dictation rather than an Obama-style deal, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Hanson also discusses the upcoming […]
VDH UltraInteresting and Strange People I Have Met: An Evening with Rod Serling, Part One
Victor Davis Hanson In the early sixties, my father, a local community college administrator, came up with the idea of having a California Central Valley community forum/lecture series. And he was able to receive funding from Reedley College where he worked and some private and county philanthropic grants. It was entirely his own project, as […]
Iran in Shambles, Rubio Targets Regime Families, and the Return of the Impeachment Hoax
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? […]
VDH UltraIran in Shambles, Rubio Targets Regime Families, and the Return of the Impeachment Hoax
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? […]
“I Was On Their Shows” Victor Davis Hanson REVEALS Why Megyn/Tucker Betrayed Trump On Iran
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.
VDH UltraPope vs. President
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.
The Genius Behind Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Blockade Plan
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 […]
VDH UltraThe Genius Behind Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Blockade Plan
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 […]