Trumpism: Then, Now—and in the Future?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness What was, is, and will be the Trump agenda? Against all odds, what elected Trump in 2016 was a recalibration of American foreign and domestic policy—and the art of politicking itself. Doctrine and Policy In foreign affairs, the United States would no longer adhere to every aspect of the […]
Trump Won the Debate—But Won Bigly the Post-Debate
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review There was a low bar for Joe Biden in the first debate, given his cognitive challenges. Because he exceeded that pessimism, he won momentum. In opposite fashion, there was similarly an expectation that a disruptive Donald Trump would turn off the audience by the sort of interruptions and bullying […]
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour: Victor Davis Hanson, Ben Beier, & Anthony Swinehart
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour · Victor Davis Hanson, Ben Beier, & Anthony Swinehart
Strategika #68: Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean
Turkey In The Eastern Mediterranean Crisis Please read a new essay by my colleague, Soner Cagaptay in Strategika. Three wars that Turkey is currently involved in, namely in Syria, Libya, and the South Caucasus, suggest that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s foreign policy has settled into a new phase. Erdoğan is building a “mini Empire” by—often—simultaneously […]
The Unapologetic Bias of the American Left
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Some yearn for the ancient monopolistic days of network news, the adolescent years of public radio and TV, and the still reputable New York Times—when once upon a time the Left at least tried to mask their progressivism in sober and judicious liberal façades. An avuncular Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, […]
Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict adds to Putin’s headaches, West’s worries
An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill The last thing Vladimir Putin needed is another hotspot in Russia’s “near abroad” — Russia’s term for the 14 republics that once were part of the old Soviet Union, along with the Russian Republic. In 2014, Putin boasted of an ambitious imperial restoration project; his […]
A Few Cracks in the Progressive Wall
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The contemporary progressive agenda — of, say, an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren — has rarely appealed to 51 percent of the American electorate. Most polls show opposition to Court packing and the abolition of the Electoral College. Voters don’t seem to like the Green New […]
2020 Election Chinese American Town Hall
Please watch this video which features Professor Hanson speaking on the 2020 election
Destroying the Institutions We Inherited
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In the 21st century, hallmark American and international institutions have lost much of their prestige and respect. Politics and biases explain the lack of public confidence in organizations and institutions such as the World Health Organization, the Commission on Presidential Debates, the Nobel Peace Prize, the Pulitzer Prizes, and the […]
The Case for Trump: Victor Davis Hanson Makes The Closing Argument
Ricochet Podcast Featuring Victor Davis Hanson With a little over three weeks to go before the election, we thought it would a good time to have a heart to heart discussion with our good friend Victor Davis Hanson. the Classics professor, the military historian, the farmer, the cultural observer, and the author of The Case For […]
California’s Illogical Reparations Bill
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review California’s state legislature just passed, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to California’s African-American population — 155 years after the abolition of slavery. Apparently, when California’s one-party government cannot find solutions to current existential crises, it turns to divisive issues that have little […]
The Full Crowley
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In the second presidential election debate between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012, CNN moderator Candy Crowley sensed that Obama, coming off a dismal initial September 26 debate, was again floundering. Romney was driving home the valid point that the Obama Administration had inadequately prepared the […]
Trump, Escaping Wile E. Coyotevirus
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Once it was announced that President Trump had COVID-19, the media almost immediately talked of all the people in the “Trump orbit” who fell ill from COVID-19 — including many on his staff, U.S. senators, and at least three White House reporters. The surreal subtext was not that the toxic […]
The Unscientific Attacks on the Science of Dr. Scott Atlas
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The news media until recently had rarely criticized the medical advice of experts — especially those who worked for federal bureaucracies, international organizations, or elite universities. Yet the much-praised Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, has demonstrably weakened the effort to fight COVID-19. During the critical initial […]
Our Socialist Future?
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review After the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd while in custody of officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, protesters demanded the fair prosecution of those responsible. Yet quickly the demonstrations devolved into a veritable cultural revolution, spearheaded by two groups, Antifa and Black Lives Matter, both with strong […]
The Progressive Medusa
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness There was once a tradition of Democratic liberalism. But that wing of the Democratic Party no longer exists and died sometime in the 1990s. Old-style liberalism has been absorbed by Progressivism at best and unapologetic socialism at worst—in a journey on the supposedly predetermined arc of history that bends […]
Civilization Requires Collective Common Sense
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review After the summer protests and rioting in many large cities, activists demanded a defunding, or at least radical pullbacks, of the police. So-called crime experts often concurred. So some city governments ignored public warnings and diminished their police presence despite a sharp rise in crime in many cities. Looting and […]
Navalny Poisoning Just A Bump In The Road For Nord Stream 2
Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory published by Forbes Trying to figure whither Nord Stream 2 (hereafter NS2) – the undersea gas pipeline from Russia to Germany – is akin to solving five complicated jigsaw puzzles at once. Competing interests, changing legal foundations, and momentum all make it difficult to either start or […]
When Conventional Wisdom Gets Downright Dangerous
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The problem with conventional wisdom is not that it is always wrong. The rub is that the majority of “experts” unthinkingly and habitually mouth its validity until they ensure that it becomes static, unchanging, and immune from reexamination and dissent — an intolerant religious orthodoxy that finally become dangerous. The […]
How American Journalism Died
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93 percent of CNN’s coverage of the Trump administration was negative. The center found similarly negative Trump coverage at other major news outlets. The election year 2020 has only accelerated that asymmetrical bias […]