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 […]
The Progressive Imaginarium
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness “T-Bone” lives in the progressive Imaginarium. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) conjured him up as his fake pal from the ’hood. The “Bone” would now and then materialize to prep the yuppie Booker on his street cred. “T” was the umbilical cord of authenticity with the underprivileged black community for […]
Hitting Woke Herd Immunity?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Two recent polls suggest wokism is beginning to recede on a variety of fronts, from less trust in Black Lives Matter and more confidence in the police, to suspicion that the Capitol “insurrection” account is being used to unfairly suppress political expression while Antifa, increasingly, is seen as a terrorist organization whose violence has been […]
Discombobulator-In-Chief
Victor Davis Hanson // VDH Podcast Listen to VDH discuss the incoherence of Biden.
Hitting Woke Herd Immunity
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Two recent polls suggest wokism is beginning to recede on a variety of fronts, from less trust in Black Lives Matter and more confidence in the police, to suspicion that the Capitol “insurrection” account is being used to unfairly suppress political expression while Antifa, increasingly, is seen as a terrorist organization whose violence has been […]
Week In Review
Read VDH’s COVID, Cancel Culture, and the Commander-In-Chief which recaps his publications this week in American Greatness, The Classicist, and the VDH Podcast.
Trumpism—Without Trump?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Six weeks ago, Americans were assured that Donald Trump had left the presidency on January 20, 2021 disgraced and forever ruined politically. Trump was the first president to be impeached twice, and first to be tried as a private citizen when out of office. He was the first to […]
War and Peace: from Thucydides to Biden
Victor Davis Hanson // The Classicist Listen to “War and Peace” Victor Davis Hanson explores how military history can illuminate current foreign policy challenges, delineates which nations pose the greatest threats to the United States, explores the role that human rights should play in international affairs, looks at the changing shape of America’s alliances, and […]
Do Biden’s ‘tough new sanctions’ give Putin Nord Stream 2?
An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Western media is greeting the Biden administration’s Russian sanctions as “signaling a tougher stance on Russia than under former President Donald Trump.” Vladimir Putin likely thinks otherwise. It looks as if the Biden administration has blinked on Putin’s key foreign policy objective — the completion and operation […]
“Trumpism without Trump
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Six weeks ago, Americans were assured that Donald Trump had left the presidency on January 20, 2021 disgraced and forever ruined politically. Trump was the first president to be impeached twice, and first to be tried as a private citizen when out of office. He was the first to […]
Was COVID-19 Our Neutron Bomb?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In the 1970s and 1980s, furor arose over our possible use of the “neutron bomb” that macabrely would “kill people, but not destroy property.” The logic of the perverse weapon was that on allied and friendly European ground, outnumbered defensive NATO troops might radiate and destroy invading masses of […]
West’s ‘wokeness’ helped Russia to redefine a ‘prisoner of conscience’
An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill By forcing the standards of “wokeness” on a Western institution like Amnesty International, the Kremlin has weakened Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny as he begins his almost three years in a penal colony near Vladimir (190 km from Moscow). Everyone understands he is a political prisoner, […]