The Doctrine of Media Untruth
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite. Put another way, the media’s “truth” is a good guide to […]
The Remains of an Administration
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Each day that the Obama administration fades into the past, its wrongdoings manage to wander back into the present. After years of suppression, all sorts of strange events keep popping up to remind us of what little is left of the Obama years — the Susan Rice memo, Christopher Steele […]
Across the Wide, Growing American Divide
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Red- and blue-state America was already divided before the coronavirus epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the East Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out much in between. The traditional values of small towns and rural counties were increasingly at odds with postmodern lifestyles in the cities. There were, of […]
Victor Davis Hanson reacts to Susan Rice email raising new concerns in Flynn case
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The Arts of Government Criminality
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In the entire 2016–19 efforts to derail the Trump campaign, transition, and presidency, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Steele, and the FBI, Department of Justice, CIA, and other government bureaus have consistently sought to distort reality. Some of our best and brightest have destroyed evidence, altered documents, lied, leaked, and pled amnesia […]
The Left Is What It Once Loathed
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Compare the current progressive view about civil liberties against the old liberal positions of the past. Surveillance and spying on U.S. citizens? Remember liberal Senator Frank Church of Idaho and his 1975 post-Watergate select Senate investigative committee? It found the CIA, FBI, and NSA improperly over three decades had […]
World Health Organization: It’s worse than we think
The following article is from my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Walter Duranty, the New York Times’s Moscow correspondent from 1922 to 1936, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Russian reporting in the early 1930s. Stalin showered him with amenities — cars, luxury apartments, and mistresses — as well as access. In return, Duranty treated […]
Unbearable Truths About Our Current Political Moment
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Sometimes the truth is like mythical kryptonite. It radiates power and yet promises great destruction. And so reality is to be left alone, encased in lead, and kept at bay. Take the Chinese genesis of the COVID-19 epidemic. We started in February with the usual Chinese deceptions about their […]
The War between Experience and Credentials
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review During this entire epidemic, and the response to it, there is a growing tension between front-line doctors and scientific researchers, between people who must use and master numbers in their jobs and university statisticians and modelers, and between the public in general and its credentialed experts. In a nutshell, the […]
Biden Has Become an Albatross for the Democrats
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Joe Biden is the apparent Democratic presidential nominee. After all, he had a seemingly insurmountable lead in delegates going into the rescheduled August convention in the postponed Democratic primary race. Biden was winning the nomination largely because he was not the socialist Bernie Sanders, who terrified the Democratic establishment. Biden […]
Coronavirus and the Great Lockdown: A Non-Biological Black Swan
The following article is from my colleague, Paul Roderick Gregory, in Real Clear Markets We stand on the precipice of the greatest economic disaster since the Great Depression. It is associated with the exogenous shock of a novel Coronavirus that originated in Wuhan China and quickly spread into a worldwide pandemic. The sequence of events leading to this crisis, […]
Do the Media Even Exist?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness If we lived in a fair and just world, most of the current media would simply go away and try something else. The problem is not that reporters are human and therefore sometimes err. The rub is not even that they are poorly educated or rarely write well. We […]
Victor Davis Hanson: Biden VP selection echoes decision Democrats and FDR made in 1944
Victor Davis Hanson // Fox News Few Americans can remember past vice presidents such as Charles Curtis, Charles Dawes or Thomas Marshall. In more recent memory, almost no one can recall vice presidential nominees who lost such as William Miller, Sargent Shriver or Lloyd Bentsen. John Nance Garner served as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vice president for two terms (1933-41), […]
About Those Press Conferences
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review President Trump seems increasingly ambivalent about the utility of the daily and sometime marathon press conferences. He should be — and for reasons besides just their length and frequency. First, Trump gets bogged down into long, back-and-forth jousts with the touché Washington press corps. His impromptu skills, honed both as […]
Our ‘Corona Project’
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Whatever we eventually call it, there is a coronavirus “project.” ChemotherapyIt’s a race to identify the origins, nature, and danger of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the best way to treat, vaccinate against, and mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 disease — all without destroying America to save it. However the […]
Our Virus Is a Violent Teacher
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Before this virus has passed, those of the New York Symphony, like the defeated Redcoats at proverbial Yorktown, will be playing the real “The World Turned Upside Down”: And then strange motions will abound.Yet let’s be content, and the times lament,you see the world turn’d upside down. Before the […]
Pandemic Is but One of America’s Security Concerns
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The world was a dangerous place before — and will be after — the coronavirus pandemic. While Americans debate the proper ongoing response to the virus and argue over the infection’s origins, nature, and trajectory, they may have tuned out other, often just as scary, news. Many Americans are irate […]