Taking a Second Look at WWII with Victor Davis Hanson’s ‘The Second World Wars’
Ed Driscoll // PJ Media Most people today assume that our understanding of WWII is largely complete, thanks to the enormous quantity of books, TV series such as ITV’s classic 1970s documentary The World at War, the myriad of documentaries that aired in the early days of the History Channel cable TV network, and the unending series of […]
Victor Davis Hanson: US Constitution and traditions are under attack by Democrats
Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News Democrats are waging war against traditions and the Constitution. Several of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates favored the abolishment of the Electoral College. Or, as once-confident candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren put it, “I plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College.” Furor over the Electoral […]
Strategika Issue #65: The Status of the EU
The State of This Union is (Remarkably) Strong Please read a new essay by my colleague, Ralph Peters in Strategika. For years, I was a guest commentator on a business-news show whose host was surprisingly literate. We covered global affairs and shared useful exchanges. But this well-schooled, worldly man had a massive blind spot he shared […]
Who or What Exactly Is Running Against Trump?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness As we enter the final 90 days of the November presidential campaign, a few truths are crystalizing about the “Biden problem,” or the inability of a 77-year-old Joe Biden to conduct a “normal” campaign. Biden’s cognitive challenges are increasing geometrically, whether as a result of months of relative inactivity […]
The Thin Veneer of American Civilization
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Nine months ago, New York was a thriving, though poorly governed, metropolis. It was coasting on the more or less good governance of its prior two mayors and on its ancestral role as the global nexus of finance and capital. The city is now something out of a postmodern […]
Our Annual August Debate over the Bombs
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review This month marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, at Hiroshima on August 6, and Nagasaki on August 9. Each year, Americans argue about our supposed moral shortcomings for being the only nation to have used an atomic weapon in war. Given the current […]
What or Who Decides This Election?
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review We know where to watch in the next few weeks but have no real idea what we will be watching. Yet pundits, the media, and the Left seem giddy that their polls show a Trump slump, as if they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing from 2016. But in […]
Steele’s dossier: ‘Clown show’ or the greatest Russian coup?
The following article is from my colleague, Paul Roderick Gregory, in The Hill The known details of the so-called Steele dossier point to a peculiar ambiguity. To expert analysts, it always appeared to be low-quality political opposition research. Yet, it turned American against American, paralyzed our government — and may be the greatest Russian disinformation coup […]
The New Old Obama
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In his latest incarnation as president emeritus and corporate multimillionaire community activist, we are reminded of the earlier Barack Obama of “get in their face,” “take a gun to a knife fight,” and “punish our enemies” vintage. From time to time, Obama ventures from his hilltop, seaside, $12 million […]
Victor Davis Hanson: Was there an Ancient Cancel Culture?
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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump is ‘protector’ of traditions that Dems want to disrupt
‘They want to change the system rather than work within the system,’ Hanson says of Democrats Watch the interview here
Our Summer of Cultural Suicide
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Cultural suicide used to be a popular diagnosis of why things suddenly just quit. Historians such as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee cited social cannibalism to explain why once-successful states, institutions, and cultures simply died off. Their common explanation was that the arrogance of success ensures lethal consequences. Once elites […]
Angry Reader 08-01-2020
I was really impressed by the article you wrote that was published in the east bay times today. Mostly impressed by the enourmase size of the piece of shit that you are. Inciting violence from the “silent majority” is one of the most irresponsible things one can possibly publish. FUCK YOU. Best Jon Viera Dear […]
Angry Reader 07-31-2020
Hello Professor Hanson, First let me say, I am a regular reader and viewer of yours. I relish your take on the important issues. This evening on Tucker Carlson Tonight with Brian Kilmeade 7/16/2020 you used some imprecise language that caused both me and my bride of many years great distress because she is currently […]
What Antifa Won’t Tell You
The following article is from my colleague, Paul Roderick Gregory, in The American Mind Observers of the demonstrations, statue toppling, and riots that followed the police killing of George Floyd on May 25 could not help but notice a distinctive pattern of protest. Legitimate demonstrators stood on the frontline, while stones, Molotov cocktails and other objects were […]
Victor Davis Hanson says violent protesters made ‘Faustian bargain’ with Democrats
Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, told Fox News’ the “Ingraham Angle” that it appears as though violent protesters have made some kind of “Faustian bargain” with Democrats that will result in the party being owned by those taking to the streets. Watch the full […]
Waiting for the Counterrevolution
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review W e are in the midst of a revolution, a cultural and racial one, that seeks to refute the past, damn the present, and hijack the future. So far, however, we have only heard from one side, the revolutionaries and their enablers themselves. Those trying to reject and then […]
Where Are the New Heroes of the Revolution?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Since late May, the United States has been convulsed by a cultural revolution unlike any seen in its recent history. Statues have been toppled, often without any logic or consistent grievance. Institutions have been renamed, again without coherent consistency. Christian iconography has been a common target. Television shows have […]
Trump’s Reactive Engagement
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The United States and indeed the Western world face four quite different challenges on the horizon: China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea. All these threats were analyzed at length in the 68-page U.S. National Security Strategy assessment of December 2017, written by then–national-security adviser H. R. McMaster and his […]