Is the Biden Administration Stumbling into War?
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness What causes wars? Innately aggressive cultures and governments, megalomania, the desire for power, resources, and empire prompt nations to bully or attack others. Less rational Thucydidean motives such as fear and honor and perceptions of self-interest are not to be discounted either. But what allows these preemptive or aggressive […]
Remembering Rush Limbaugh With Comments From Dr. Victor Davis Hanson Heard Exclusively on The Trevor Carey Show
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Our Descent Into Collective Madness?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness These are crazy times. A pandemic led to national quarantine, to self-induced recession, to riot, arson, and looting, to a contested election, and to a riot at the Capitol. In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily vaccination rate? Getting the country back to work? Opening the […]
On the Border and Immigration
VDH talks to John Bachelor Podcast. See the link below. http://hvr.co/3k6WnqL
The Wages of Trump Hatred
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatnes Over the last five years, the pathology of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been widely described. It was more than a chronic disease and was often characterized by an array of rapidly advancing symptoms of deterioration in reasoning, emotional stability, and personal ethics. More practically, often the deranged Trump hater […]
The Wages of Trump Hatred
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness Over the last five years, the pathology of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been widely described. It was more than a chronic disease and was often characterized by an array of rapidly advancing symptoms of deterioration in reasoning, emotional stability, and personal ethics. More practically, often the deranged Trump hater […]
The World Goes On While America Sleeps
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The Democratically-controlled Senate spends thousands of collective hours conducting an impeachment trial against a president who is no longer president. The acquittal is predetermined, as in the first impeachment effort a year ago—and known to be so to the Democratic prosecutors. The constitutionally mandated presiding judge—the chief justice of […]
Navalny proves too hot for ‘poisoner Putin’
An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill On Feb. 2, the Moscow City Court sentenced Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny to two years and eight months in jail. Noted for its “telephone justice” (verdict dictated by the Kremlin), the Moscow court’s sentence revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has concluded that Navalny is too […]
Our Animal Farm
George Orwell published Animal Farm in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most naïve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial about the contours of Moscow’s impending postwar communist aggression. The short, allegorical novel’s human-like farm animals replay the transition of supposedly 1917 revolutionary Bolsheviks into cynical […]
Will a Hard-Left Turn Lead to Pushback?
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The corruption of the Renaissance Church prompted the Reformation, which in turn sparked a Counter-Reformation of reformist, and more zealous, Catholics. The cultural excesses and economic recklessness of the Roaring ’20s were followed by the bleak, dour, and impoverished years of the Great Depression. The 1960s counterculture led to Richard […]
Why Are Progressives So Illiberal?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness One common theme in the abject madness and tragedies of the past 12 months is that progressive ideology now permeates almost all of our major institutions—even as the majority of Americans resist the leftist agenda. Its reach resembles the manner in which the pre-Renaissance church had absorbed the economic, […]
‘New McCarthyism will prove an Orwellian mistake,’ says US historian
Pavlos Papadopoulos // Ekathimerini.com A friend of Greece and regular visitor to the country, Victor Davis Hanson is a rare breed of American intellectual: The professor of classics and military history at the California State University and senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute has supported Donald Trump in a […]
How to Deprogram Us
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Anew buzzword on social media, cable news, and among leftist activists is “deprogramming.” Along with terms like “reprogramming,” “de-Baathification,” and “deplatforming,” deprogramming refers to cleansing the incorrect mentalities of former Trump Administration officials—and even those who voted for Trump. Note that deprogramming does not refer to elites who peddled […]
The ‘After Trump’ Era Begins
Victor Davis Hanson // The Patriot Post The new AT age — “After Trump” — began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented. Pfizer had hinted that a vaccine could be ready in late […]
The River of Forgetfulness
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Riotous rogue Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol on January 6 were properly and widely condemned by conservatives. They were somewhat reminiscent of the mobs of fanatic leftists and union members that a decade ago stormed the Wisconsin state capitol at Madison, or the unpunished hundreds of rioters […]