What Happens When the Madness Ends?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness When something cannot go on, it certainly will not go on. But what are the symptoms of what cannot go on and when? There are two historic red lines and our revolution is getting close to both. When Normal People Grow Weary One is when “average” people, both white […]
A Presidential Campaign Simile: Storm-Tossed Galleon
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Presidential campaigns are like galleons sailing into port, their metaphorical Election Day destinations. Some arrive there first, others not at all. The news cycle is the propellant wind, their own campaigns the ship and its sails, and the candidates the captains on the bridge. Sometimes, no matter how tall […]
Victor Davis Hanson says ‘the left has used’ George Floyd’s death to stage cultural revolution
Author and Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson told “The Brian Kilmeade Show” on Wednesday that the left has “hijacked” the protests over the death of George Floyd in order to stage a cultural revolution. Watch the video here
How Cultural Revolutions Die — or Not
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Unlike coups or political revolutions, cultural revolutions don’t just change governments or leaders. Instead, they try to redefine entire societies. Their leaders call them “holistic” and “systematic.” Cultural revolutionaries attack the very referents of our daily lives. The Jacobins’ so-called Reign of Terror during the French Revolution slaughtered Christian clergy, […]
Class, Not Race, Divides America
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Nothing is stranger in these tense days than the monotony of the inexact and non-descriptive mantra of “white privilege” and “white solidarity”—as if there is some monolithic white bloc, or as if class matters not at all. In truth, the clingers, the deplorables, the irredeemables, and Joe Biden’s “dregs” […]
Military-Intelligence Complex
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Not long after a number of generals and admirals recently weighed in with renewed criticism of the president in orchestrated unison, presidential candidate Joe Biden seemed giddy at their effort. After breezily asserting that “this president is going to try to steal this election,” Biden then charged additionally that Trump […]
Not-So-Swift Smear
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review I recently wrote about a number of retired high-ranking generals and admirals, none running for office or currently serving in the Trump administration, whose strident criticisms of the present elected president were setting an unfortunate precedent. Many disagreed. There are certainly arguments to consider on both sides. But rarely have I […]
The NYT and the Cotton op-ed: Opinion or party line?
The following article is from my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Sometimes it takes an outsider to see things clearly. The Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ) ranks as a fiercely independent newspaper, much like the Swiss people themselves. The high-quality Zurich newspaper is no fan of Donald Trump. It is, therefore, noteworthy that the NZZ views with […]
Victor Davis Hanson on removing Confederate statues and the erasing of American History
What began as a call to remove the statues of some Confederate leaders has escalated into a full-on debate over whether getting rid of historical monuments is really helping support racial equality or simply erasing a part of American history. Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, put the debate into historical context. Watch the video here
The Bitter Irony of Revolutions
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The ancient Greeks created new words like “paradox” and “irony” to describe the wide gap between what people profess and assume, and what they actually do and suffer. Remember the blind prophet Teiresias of ancient drama. In the carnage of Athenian tragedy, he alone usually ends up foreseeing danger better […]
On Name Changing and Statue Toppling
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review General David Petraeus wrote an impassioned article in the Atlantic this week about the need to change the names of military bases that for over a century have been named after Confederate generals and to recalibrate iconic remembrances such as statues commemorating Robert E. Lee at West Point — points of […]
China Isn’t Letting a Pandemic Go to Waste
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis last week when a police officer used brutally excessive force to arrest him. It was the latest in a string of high-profile cases nationwide in which citizens, most of them African Americans, died from reckless police force. Once again, protests over police brutality turned […]
Remembering D-Day
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history since King Xerxes’ 480 bc combined sea and land descent into Greece. The Americans, especially General George Marshall, had wanted to invade France as early as spring 1943, still confident from their World War I experience that they could land easily in France […]
10 Rules for Postmodern Rioting
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The peaceful protests against the terrible brutalization and death of George Floyd soon either themselves turned violent or, in many cases, were hijacked by Antifa operatives and opportunistic looters or both. It was certainly not as alleged a “small number” who destroyed swaths of New York, Santa Monica, Minneapolis, […]
Not-So-Retiring Retired Military Leaders
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Sometimes retired generals are deified. Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower won two presidential terms in landslide elections. At other moments, war heroes such Generals Douglas MacArthur and Curtis LeMay were vilified as near insurrectionaries for their blistering attacks on sitting presidents. In such a climate, the Uniform Code […]
Strategika Issue #65
Taiwan: “The Struggle Continues” Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. Chang in Strategika. “Reunification is a historical inevitability of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” declared Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office in May, promoting the idea that Taiwan will be absorbed into the People’s Republic of China. Read the full article here. Recognize Taiwan Please read […]
Donald Trump in Twitter’s Lilliput
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Donald Trump has slumped badly in the polls over the last weeks. There are the usual suspects for his periodic dips: his cul de sac Twitter wars over Joe Biden, obsessing over the utter dreariness of Joe Scarborough’s past irrelevant life, the constant effects of a 93 percent negative media that […]
Strategika Issue #64
The Coronacrisis Will Simply Exacerbate the Geo-strategic Competition between Beijing and Washington Please read a new essay by my colleague, Michael R. Austin in Strategika. Even before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China late last year, the Sino-U.S. relationship had been in a period of flux. Since coming to office in 2017, President […]
Victor Davis Hanson on civil unrest: America is waiting for one brave person to step forward and say no more
Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News Jun. 02, 2020 – 3:51 – Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins Tucker Carlson with insight on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ Watch the video here
Biden as Paradox
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review It is now conventional punditry that should Joe Biden win in November, his vice president, in 1944-style, will sooner rather than later become president. Biden, to reboot and secure the identity-politics base, thought he had to discriminate by sex and race in advance by selecting his vice president. But given […]