The Bitter Irony of Revolutions
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The ancient Greeks created new words like “paradox” and “irony” to describe the wide gap between what people profess and assume, and what they actually do and suffer. Remember the blind prophet Teiresias of ancient drama. In the carnage of Athenian tragedy, he alone usually ends up foreseeing danger better […]
On Name Changing and Statue Toppling
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review General David Petraeus wrote an impassioned article in the Atlantic this week about the need to change the names of military bases that for over a century have been named after Confederate generals and to recalibrate iconic remembrances such as statues commemorating Robert E. Lee at West Point — points of […]
China Isn’t Letting a Pandemic Go to Waste
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis last week when a police officer used brutally excessive force to arrest him. It was the latest in a string of high-profile cases nationwide in which citizens, most of them African Americans, died from reckless police force. Once again, protests over police brutality turned […]
Remembering D-Day
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history since King Xerxes’ 480 bc combined sea and land descent into Greece. The Americans, especially General George Marshall, had wanted to invade France as early as spring 1943, still confident from their World War I experience that they could land easily in France […]
10 Rules for Postmodern Rioting
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The peaceful protests against the terrible brutalization and death of George Floyd soon either themselves turned violent or, in many cases, were hijacked by Antifa operatives and opportunistic looters or both. It was certainly not as alleged a “small number” who destroyed swaths of New York, Santa Monica, Minneapolis, […]
Not-So-Retiring Retired Military Leaders
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Sometimes retired generals are deified. Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower won two presidential terms in landslide elections. At other moments, war heroes such Generals Douglas MacArthur and Curtis LeMay were vilified as near insurrectionaries for their blistering attacks on sitting presidents. In such a climate, the Uniform Code […]
Strategika Issue #65
Taiwan: “The Struggle Continues” Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. Chang in Strategika. “Reunification is a historical inevitability of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” declared Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office in May, promoting the idea that Taiwan will be absorbed into the People’s Republic of China. Read the full article here. Recognize Taiwan Please read […]
Donald Trump in Twitter’s Lilliput
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Donald Trump has slumped badly in the polls over the last weeks. There are the usual suspects for his periodic dips: his cul de sac Twitter wars over Joe Biden, obsessing over the utter dreariness of Joe Scarborough’s past irrelevant life, the constant effects of a 93 percent negative media that […]
Strategika Issue #64
The Coronacrisis Will Simply Exacerbate the Geo-strategic Competition between Beijing and Washington Please read a new essay by my colleague, Michael R. Austin in Strategika. Even before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China late last year, the Sino-U.S. relationship had been in a period of flux. Since coming to office in 2017, President […]
Victor Davis Hanson on civil unrest: America is waiting for one brave person to step forward and say no more
Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News Jun. 02, 2020 – 3:51 – Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins Tucker Carlson with insight on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ Watch the video here
Biden as Paradox
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review It is now conventional punditry that should Joe Biden win in November, his vice president, in 1944-style, will sooner rather than later become president. Biden, to reboot and secure the identity-politics base, thought he had to discriminate by sex and race in advance by selecting his vice president. But given […]
Victor Davis Hanson: The spreading debt virus — 5 potential cures for $30 trillion problem
Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News The current U.S. budget deficit could soon exceed a record $4 trillion. The massive borrowing is being driven both by prior budget profligacy and a hurried effort by the Donald Trump administration to pump liquidity into a quarantined America. The shutdown has left the country on the cusp of a self-inflicted economic collapse not seen […]
The Doctrine of Media Untruth
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite. Put another way, the media’s “truth” is a good guide to […]
The Remains of an Administration
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Each day that the Obama administration fades into the past, its wrongdoings manage to wander back into the present. After years of suppression, all sorts of strange events keep popping up to remind us of what little is left of the Obama years — the Susan Rice memo, Christopher Steele […]
Across the Wide, Growing American Divide
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Red- and blue-state America was already divided before the coronavirus epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the East Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out much in between. The traditional values of small towns and rural counties were increasingly at odds with postmodern lifestyles in the cities. There were, of […]
Victor Davis Hanson reacts to Susan Rice email raising new concerns in Flynn case
Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson joins ‘The Daily Briefing.’ Watch the video here
The Arts of Government Criminality
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In the entire 2016–19 efforts to derail the Trump campaign, transition, and presidency, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Steele, and the FBI, Department of Justice, CIA, and other government bureaus have consistently sought to distort reality. Some of our best and brightest have destroyed evidence, altered documents, lied, leaked, and pled amnesia […]
The Left Is What It Once Loathed
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Compare the current progressive view about civil liberties against the old liberal positions of the past. Surveillance and spying on U.S. citizens? Remember liberal Senator Frank Church of Idaho and his 1975 post-Watergate select Senate investigative committee? It found the CIA, FBI, and NSA improperly over three decades had […]
World Health Organization: It’s worse than we think
The following article is from my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Walter Duranty, the New York Times’s Moscow correspondent from 1922 to 1936, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Russian reporting in the early 1930s. Stalin showered him with amenities — cars, luxury apartments, and mistresses — as well as access. In return, Duranty treated […]