VDH UltraWhen and Whom to Fear About Dictatorship, Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson 1) Does the government use the administrative state to advance its own political agendas and to punish its enemies? In 2013, a top IRS lawyer, Lois Lerner, confessed that she and other members of her team had wrongly denied non-profit status to various conservative groups in order to weaken conservative opposition to […]
‘Scoundrel’ Adam Schiff Has No Grounds Against Tulsi Gabbard
Former Democrat turned Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, announced her resignation last week, citing her husband’s ongoing battle with bone cancer. While her time in office was marked by some big America First wins, like declassifications of the Russia collusion hoax documents, it was only a matter of time before Gabbard was brought […]
VDH Ultra‘Scoundrel’ Adam Schiff Has No Grounds Against Tulsi Gabbard
Former Democrat turned Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, announced her resignation last week, citing her husband’s ongoing battle with bone cancer. While her time in office was marked by some big America First wins, like declassifications of the Russia collusion hoax documents, it was only a matter of time before Gabbard was brought […]
VDH UltraWhen and Whom to Fear About Dictatorship, Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson 1) Does the government use its powers to interfere in elections and often unite with toadish private enterprises to ensure electoral victories? Barack Obama assembled the heads of the CIA and the FBI and the director of National Intelligence and ordered them to ignore their own bureaus’ assessments that there was no […]
Spare Us the Selective Outrage
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Since October 7, we have been lectured nonstop about the supposedly singular sins of Israel. The campuses, the left-wing media, and the new Democratic Socialist officials, both federal and state, following the cue of student activists and professors from the Middle East, have painted Israel and their Jewish supporters as […]
Memorial Day, Civic Duty, and the Cost of Leadership
Political dysfunction in California, the collapse of communist regimes, the meaning of Memorial Day, and the importance of the citizen soldier all point back to the same question: what happens when leaders become detached from the people they govern? Cuba remains impoverished decades after revolution while political elites continue to prosper. California continues to struggle […]
VDH UltraMemorial Day, Civic Duty, and the Cost of Leadership
Political dysfunction in California, the collapse of communist regimes, the meaning of Memorial Day, and the importance of the citizen soldier all point back to the same question: what happens when leaders become detached from the people they govern? Cuba remains impoverished decades after revolution while political elites continue to prosper. California continues to struggle […]
‘He tore out the scab’: Trump exposes Europe’s wounds on defense, energy, borders
Author and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson claims US President Donald Trump exposed Europe’s weaknesses on defence, energy and borders. “There was a wound that was there, and Trump didn’t cause it; he tore out the scab and exposed it,” Mr Hanson told Sky News Digital Presenter Trum. “They were essentially unarmed; they’re […]
What Arab Nations Really Want to Happen to Iran
The Arab nations, most namely Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, want the United States to destroy the Iranian regime—they’re just not willing to both say it out loud, and do it themselves, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
VDH UltraWhat Arab Nations Really Want to Happen to Iran
The Arab nations, most namely Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, want the United States to destroy the Iranian regime—they’re just not willing to both say it out loud, and do it themselves, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
VDH UltraThe Political Divide
Victor Davis Hanson explains the language of division, hate, and invective that is dividing our nation.
America Is Not Caught in a ‘Thucydides Trap!’
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap,” argued that often in history an established power will stage a preventive war against an ascendant adversary—for fear that otherwise it will soon lose its primacy. His title derives from two passages in the first book of […]
Kamala Harris’ Radical ‘No Bad Ideas’ Playbook, the Left’s War on Police, and Colbert’s Nihilism
Kamala Harris floats “no bad ideas” proposals like abolishing the Electoral College and packing the Supreme Court. Democrats only attack rules when out of power, argue Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” They connect these trends to broader left-wing efforts to change American institutions, […]
VDH UltraKamala Harris’ Radical ‘No Bad Ideas’ Playbook, the Left’s War on Police, and Colbert’s Nihilism
Kamala Harris floats “no bad ideas” proposals like abolishing the Electoral College and packing the Supreme Court. Democrats only attack rules when out of power, argue Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” They connect these trends to broader left-wing efforts to change American institutions, […]
VDH UltraWhen and Whom to Fear About Dictatorship. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Leftists now daily claim we are under a Trump “dictatorship” run by “fascists” and “Nazis”—and then when asked to give specific examples of Trump’s “fascism,” they grow mute. So how do you calibrate the slide from democracy guided by constitutional republican principles into autocracy? Note first that the first American dictator will […]
VDH UltraWhat Do They All Want from the Iran War? The Great Game, Part Six: Europe
Victor Davis Hanson Start with the premise that with few exceptions, the Europeans despise Trump but need the U.S. military to protect them from both Russia and any potential anti-Western nuclear power with ballistic missiles. They cannot square that circle. Their hearts want to subvert the Americans, but their heads tell them the end of […]
America: The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One American view of China—now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd—is that the communist colossus will be forever ascendant, with continued astonishing levels of food production, ship construction, and industrial output. In this pessimistic view, China will soon replace America as the world’s predominant power. […]
The COVID Narrative Officially Collapsed
A CIA whistleblower, James Erdman III, alleges that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the architect behind many of the notorious, draconian public health policies, “influenced” the U.S. intelligence community’s examination of the COVID-19 origins probe, pushing analysts away from lab-leak theories—what else did they lie about, asks Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: […]
VDH UltraThe COVID Narrative Officially Collapsed
A CIA whistleblower, James Erdman III, alleges that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the architect behind many of the notorious, draconian public health policies, “influenced” the U.S. intelligence community’s examination of the COVID-19 origins probe, pushing analysts away from lab-leak theories—what else did they lie about, asks Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: […]
Why $29 Billion for Iran War Is a ‘Bargain,’ but Only if It Works and Trump’s Leverage Over Xi Jinping
The narrative that America is in terminal decline while China is an unstoppable juggernaut is a completely historically illiterate trope. Donald Trump has structural, economic, and geopolitical levers that Beijing simply cannot match if the administration chooses to enforce true parity. By reclaiming American energy dominance and taking a decisive stand in the Straits of […]