Vaccination Weaponization
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness It was always going to be Herculean to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million, across a vast continent—in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news. Some minorities understandably harbored distrust of prior government vaccination programs. Nearly 40 million foreign residents in America are […]
The Classicist: The Three C’s and More
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Cuomo allegations, California recall, and real courage. They end with a discussion of woke and how it compromises quality for airline industries, US military and Hollywood et al.
Strategika #74: The Prospects of a New Iran Deal
Iran’s Nuclear Program Please read a new essay by my colleague, Peter R. Mansoor in Strategika. The Biden administration came into office with the hope of reentering the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—the nuclear deal with Iran—and thereby reduce tensions in the Middle East, an area of the world to which it would rather […]
Critical race theory capitalists, rich CEOs — what is US wokeness really about?
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com On July 18, 2021, Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses op-ed that calls out the Democratic Party as ‘the party of wealth,’ suggesting Republicans need to …
Traditionalist: The Left Talks the Talk
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler in their discussion of Left-wing policies and legislation that lacks support among Americans: from Pelosi the dictator and Gallup Polls, to infrastructure legislation and election integrity.
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, @HooverInst
Victor Davis Hanson talks with John Batchelor about his best selling Second World Wars. Join them for a short conversation on some highlights of World War II.
VDH UltraOptimism, Inc.: The Crushing Weight of Lies
Victor Davis Hanson // VDH’s Blade of Perseus One reason why I remain optimistic about the impending end of wokism and the failure of the cultural revolution is that the dangers they pose are unsustainable. And by that I mean that they require such dissimulation, that the load of lies eventually will snap the spine […]
Incompetence + Arrogance = Woke
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness We know the nature of mass hysterias in history, and how they can overwhelm and paralyze what seem to be stable societies. We know the roots and origins of the cult of wokeness. And we know, too, how such insanity—from the Salem witch trials to Jacobinism to McCarthyism—can spread, […]
The Culturalist: Liberty and Equality
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson discusses with Sami Winc the conflict between liberty and equality in history and in the present.
What Is Woke Really About?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Most Americans were as indifferent to the unexpected loss of our Olympic women’s soccer team as they were once excited about their World Cup win. In between was the team’s nonstop politicking, from whining about compensation to virtue signaling their disrespect for the United States. The celebrity face of […]
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Civilizational Death or Renewal?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers History is replete with examples of societies in crises that either imploded or were destroyed, through internal and external forces—as well as those that met such dangers and endured. Life or Death? Controversies remain over why the Western Roman Empire broke apart by the end of the 5th-century AD, […]
China’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Stonewalling investigations into the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan? A hundred new hardened intercontinental nuclear missiles silos? Dressing down U.S. diplomats on purported American racism? Braggadocio about nuking non-nuclear and once-nuked Japan, if need be? Winks and nods that Taiwan will soon be Hong-Kongized? Hacking into Western institutions? No […]
VDH UltraEeyore’s Cabinet: “Cannibalism, Suicide, or What?”
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two Item: For the millions of Americans who lived through inflation and stagflation from 1974-1983, why would we ever wish to return to all that? We more or less avoided both the last forty years by being semi-profligate rather than whole-hog profligate. Now and then we saw a […]
VDH UltraEeyore’s Cabinet: Cannibalism, Suicide, or What?
Part One The two-parties used to have coherent, if antithetical, agendas. The Left believed foremost in equality of result (now renamed “equity”), the Right far more in an equality of opportunity. The former distrusted individuality and considered liberty problematic; the latter even more so feared government and its plan to reengineer income, and the daily […]
The Traditionalist: Damned If You Do…
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Listen to Victor Davis Hanson speak with cohost Jack Fowler on Afghanistan, Cuba, class and the Left’s real lack of reality. Can the lack of connect to reality of racialism go on? At the end, they discuss Hunter as blackmail artist of his own father.
Democrats No More
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In the old days, Democrats had predictable agendas, supposedly focused on individual rights, the “little guy,” and distrust of the military-industrial-intelligence complex. The Left, often on spec, blasted the wealthy, whether the “lucre” was self-made or inherited. The old-money rich were lampooned as idle drones. If the rich were […]