Thoughts of the week
Victor Davis Hanson // Week In Review We do not know when we hit peak wokeness—only that no constitutional republic can long exist in a climate of McCarthyite fear and anti-racism racism. I wrote about this crux for next week’s American Greatness (“Anti-Racism Racism”) in a long essay that will appear on Monday. It refutes the idea that […]
The Nature of Chinese Contempt for US
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness LAST WEEK IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, CHINESE diplomats dressed down Biden Administration Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Both seem stunned by the Chinese broadsides. Apparently, as elite Americans readily confess to inherent white supremacy and racism—highlighting the complaints of BLM and Antifa—the Chinese are […]
Follow The ‘Science,’ They Said
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Throughout the Trump years and in particular during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis, the nation was lectured by the Left “to follow the data,” as the Democrats proclaimed themselves the “party of science.” As sober and judicious children of the enlightenment, they alone offered the necessary disinterested correctives to […]
In a Feeble Position
Victor Davis Hanson // VDHPodcast Victor discusses America’s new class warfare, the foreign-policy consequences of our Feeble POTUS, the Biden Administration’s getting out-manipulated by Red China and Russia…..
Getting the facts right on Operation Warp Speed
An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Former President Donald Trump formally announced Operation Warp Speed (OWS) on May 15, 2020. OWS was constituted as a projected $18 billion business-government-military partnership, charged to “produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy […]
Angry Reader 03-22-2021
From A Not Angry Reader: Dear Professor Hanson, I am not an angry reader. I am an eternally grateful reader who only hopes to see this on your “Dear Angry Reader” page so that I know you read my note. In your latest podcast you state that Rush Limbaugh is irreplaceable. Perhaps. I don’t know. […]
The Rand Paul-Anthony Fauci Smack Down
Listen to “The Rand Paul-Anthony Fauci Smack Down” on Spreaker. Listen to Victor Davis Hanson starting at the 20-minute mark
Follow the “Science,” They Say
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Throughout the Trump years and in particular during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis, the nation was lectured by the Left “to follow the data,” as the Democrats proclaimed themselves the “party of science.” As sober and judicious children of the enlightenment, they alone offered the necessary disinterested correctives to […]
Diplomatic Lessons?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers A forty-something inexperienced JFK in June 1961 was clobbered at the Vienna summit by Nikita Khrushchev—and learned the USSR interpreted magnanimity and earnestness as weakness to be exploited not reciprocated. (Read about the Summit) The same happened this week in Anchorage to our Secretary of State Blinken and National […]
Who Is Our Military’s Enemy?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The new secretary of defense relayed his “revulsion” for Carlson’s questioning the role of women in combat—a position that had been the military’s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby […]
Who Is Our Military’s Enemy?
The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The new secretary of defense relayed his “revulsion” for Carlson’s questioning the role of women in combat—a position that had been the military’s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby even compared Carlson to the Communist […]
Texas Cage Match
VDH Podcast VDH talks about the border, the left and Biden’s first national address in his most recent podcast. Listen here
Victor Davis Hanson on the Crisis at the Border, the Liberal Elite’s “Abstract Empathy,” and What He Loves About America
Dr. Victor Davis Hanson‘s appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show. His conversation with Megyn about immigration, Biden’s administration and what we can expect in the next four years, as well as the overall political landscape today was both captivating and thoughtful.
Strategika #71: China and the Pandemic
Domestic Disorder and International Credibility Please read a new essay by my colleague, Mark Moyar in Strategika. George Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020 at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer triggered allegations that his fate exposed a much broader problem of racism in American law enforcement and American society more generally. As this […]
The Legends of Our Fall
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Many politicians at one point or another live by lies—if they can get away with them. Our supposed sentinels, the media—self-defined as independent, cynical, and skeptical journalists—are supposed to separate political fictions from truth. Legends As Facts Of course, sometimes they used to do that—if only selectively. There were […]