California Has Become America’s Cannibal State
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness For over six years, California has had a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3 percent, the highest in the nation. About 150,000 households in a state of 40 million people now pay nearly half of the total annual state income tax. The state legislature sold that confiscatory tax […]
RobertRinger.com: Interview with Victor Davis Hanson
By Robert Ringer Click here to listen to the information-packed interview I did yesterday with the great Victor Davis Hanson, professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno, and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
The World Doesn’t Care About Groupthink
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Conventional wisdom may change in a flash (remember ‘peak oil’?), but elites remain elites, united by common interests. “All things are in flux.” — Heraclitus The adage “nothing last forever” is an understatement. Far more accurate is something like “nothing lasts until next week.” Saint-to-Sinner Silicon Valley A decade […]
All the Progressive Plotters
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein—cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders—sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. Before the quixotic effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social justice warrior who might stop […]
VDH UltraAngry Reader 04-04-2019
From An Angry Reader: Sir: I thought you were supposed to be an intellectual. Hoover Institution and all that. Then you go off on an illegal immigrant killing an American. That’s Rush Limbaugh turf. (the 2 semester and out fellow) I guess you’re just another partisan propagandist after all. Sorry. Gary Christian _______________________________________________________________________ Dear Angry […]
With Mueller Hopes Gone, So Goes Progressive Unity
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The Democratic Party has lots of radical new ideas, and lots of radical presidential candidates and politicos. But the common hatred of President Donald Trump has united otherwise quite disparate Democratic leaders such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.); former Vice President Joe Biden; Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif), Cory […]
VDH UltraAngry Reader 04-03-2019
From An Angry Reader: Well, a quick scan of your website revealed you actually have a whole section dedicated to “Angry Reader” mail. One would think, a man of your so-called intellect, would perhaps have a small moment of introspection and realize the true damage Donald Trump and the current Republican Party are doing to […]
VDH UltraAngry Reader 04-02-2019
From An Angry Reader: Dear Mr. Hanson, though your academic accreditations appear substantial, your view of history seems almost deliberately moronic. I generally don’t like to wade into a debate with an ad hominem; but defending George Bush and his disastrous military policies?? The only rational explanations are intentional distortion or willful ignorance… Sadly, neither […]
The Virtuous Can Never Be Guilty
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Since ancient times, it has always been scary when moral auditors audit their own. Or as the Roman satirist Juvenal put it of male guardians entrusted to shield chaste girls from randy males, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (“Who will watch the watchmen?”) When humans sense that there’s neither an earthly nor divine deterrent between […]
Whiskey Politics: Victor Davis Hanson at Home
Ep. 189 – From #VictorDavisHanson‘s farm, far from the power of Silicon Valley and the glitz of Los Angeles, Dave sits with the Author, Professor and Senior Fellow at the #HooverInstitution (Stanford Univ.) to discuss #TheBulwark, #JohnMcCain, #GeorgeBush, #BillKristol, #MuellerReport, #DeepState, #China, #Israel, #Antisemitism, #Journalism, #WhitePrivilege, #TheDemocrats “new demography”, #NewZealand, #Reparations and his latest book […]
The Tables Turn in Russian Collusion Hunt
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The irony of the entire Russian collusion hoax is that accusers who cried the loudest about leaking, collusion, lying, and obstruction are themselves soon very likely to be accused of just those crimes. Now that Robert Mueller’s 674-day, $30 million investigation is over and has failed to find the […]
Proposed Voting Changes Are About Power, Not Principles
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Progressive candidates and new Democratic representatives have offered lots of radical new proposals lately about voting and voters. They include scrapping the 215-year-old Electoral College. Progressives also talk of extending the vote to 16- or 17-year-olds and ex-felons. They wish to further relax requirements for voter identification, same-day registration […]
Mueller report confirms the Steele dossier belongs in the dustbin of history
Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill The Trump dossier — compiled by Christopher Steele, commissioned by Fusion GPS and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee — has tied up U.S. politics for more than two years with its accusation that an elected U.S. […]
Strategika Issue 57: The Growth of Chinese Power and Influence
China Never Was A Superpower—And It Won’t Be One Anytime Soon Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. Chang in Strategika. “The world by 2049 will be defined by the realization of Chinese power,” write Bradley Thayer and John Friend, referring to the centenary of the founding of the People’s Republic. “China,” these American academics […]
Did Trump Really Do All That?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Peggy Noonan, apparently like many, believes that Trump’s occasional callousness and crassness are unprecedented. And they have so befouled the political landscape that he has spawned rude and crude leftwing imitators. The result allegedly is the vile language of the “mean girls” such as the anti-Semitism and foul speech […]
Can Trump Win Again in 2020?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In 2016, Donald Trump overwhelmed 16 qualified Republican primary rivals and became the first major-party presidential nominee without prior political or military experience. Against even greater odds, Trump defeated in the general election a far better funded and politically connected Hillary Clinton. What are his chances of repeating that […]
What Progressives Should Know About Trump Voters
Victor Davis Hanson // CNN CNN)Progressives wonder how in the world could anyone still support President Donald Trump. So here are ten reasons why more than 40% of the electorate probably does — and will. 1. Voters appreciate that the economy is currently experiencing near record-low peacetime unemployment, record-low minority unemployment, and virtual 3% annualized GDP growth. Interest and inflation rates remain […]
Ivy-League Schools Wither
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review A number of liberal bastions are daily being hammered — especially the elite university and Silicon Valley. A Yale and a Stanford, or Facebook and Google, assume — for the most part rightly — that each is so loudly progressive that the public, federal and state regulators, and politicians would […]
Video: Victor Davis Hanson on Destroying Leftist Racist Symbols of the Past
Conservative Resurgence returns with a video adaptation of Victor Davis Hanson’s latest column, “Waging War Against the Dead.” Watch the full video on American Greatness here.
When Presidential Character Once Mattered
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Here’s why I did not vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Ronald Reagan—despite their records. 1944: Sorry, I am not voting for a fourth term for Franklin D. Roosevelt. He’s a vindictive character and has brought disrepute into the White House. […]