Yes, Be Very Worried Over Growing Polarization
Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution My Hoover Institution colleague Morris Fiorina has recently written that I am unduly pessimistic in my appraisals of a currently divided America. He cited two essays I wrote, one a Tribune Media Services syndicated column, the other a National Reviewonline essay. Both were published before the recent national hysteria over Judge Brett […]
US Strategy On China, Great Powers
Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution The United States should use a strategy of power, alliances, and triangulation to best navigate the emerging world of “great power” rivalries, Hoover scholar Victor Davis Hanson says. The post-Cold War global order is in flux with the ascendency of an economically-driven China and its foreign policy of global hegemony, said Hanson in […]
A Reminder of What Binds Us
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In these divisive times, one constant for all Americans has been the hallowed work of the American Battle Monuments Commission, the small and sometimes unheralded federal agency created in 1923 to establish, operate, and oversee foreign cemeteries of American war dead, largely from the First and Second World Wars, […]
Could Trump Win 20 Percent of the African-American Vote in 2020?
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The provocative Donald Trump certainly seems to be disliked by a majority of African-American professional athletes, cable-news hosts, academics, and the Congressional Black Caucus. Yet there are subtle but increasing indications that his approval among other African Americans may be reaching historic highs for a modern Republican president. Some […]
World Economic Forum confirms the US is great again under Trump
Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2018 World Competitiveness Report ranks the United States No. 1 in global competitiveness, up from No. 3 in the past few years and its first top ranking in a decade. A high ranking matters. As the WEF reports: “Global competitiveness […]
Strategika Issue 54: Space Force and Warfare in Space
Winning the Space Race Please read a new essay by my colleague, John Yoo in Strategika. President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy set a new course by focusing on rebuilding the domestic economy as central to national security and aiming at “rival powers, Russia and China, that seek to challenge American influence, values, and wealth.” […]
The Origins of Progressive Agony
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review What has transformed the Democratic party into an anguished progressive movement that incorporates the tactics of the street, embraces maenadism, reverts to Sixties carnival barking, and is radicalized by a new young socialist movement? Even party chairman Tom Perez concedes that there are “no moderate Democrats left,” and lately […]
Who and What Threaten the Constitution?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Donald Trump on occasion can talk recklessly. He is certainly trying to “fundamentally transform” the United States in exactly the opposite direction from which Barack Obama promised to do the same sort of massive recalibration. According to polls (such as they are), half the country fears Trump. The media […]
A New Era for the China-Russia-U.S. Triangle
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Nearly a half-century ago, President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, established a successful U.S. strategy for dealing with America’s two most dangerous rivals. He sought closer ties to both the Soviet Union, with its more than 7,000 nuclear weapons, and Communist China, with the world’s largest population. […]
Kavanaugh Casualties
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review When the Christine Ford saga finally ended with the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a lot of truth had distilled out, along with the evaporation of prior pretensions and misconceptions. The Left The hearing confirmed that the traditional JFK/Hubert Humphrey Democrat party, as once envisioned […]
One Ford Narrative Too Many
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In the end, the Christine Blasey Ford accusations collapsed. With them went the last effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the United States Supreme Court. After thousands of hours of internal Senate and FBI investigations of Kavanaugh, as well as public discussions, open questioning, and media sensationalism, Ford […]
Angry Reader 10-04-2018
From An Angry Reader: it is painful to see or read your columns. I usually ignore them;today’s on Nunes was pathetic. Mr. Hanson,you are a fraud and in a just world you’d be condemned to occupy a spot in that special place down below where it’s always hot… Delusional is a good word to describe […]
The Campus Comes to Congress
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The polarizing atmosphere of the university has now spread to Congress. During the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, we witnessed how college values have become the norms of the Senate. On campus, constitutional due process vanishes when accusations of sexual harassment arise. America saw that […]
America’s New Jacobins
Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution Maximilien Robespierre and his Jacobin “Committee of Public Safety’ highjacked the late 18th-century French Revolution. As supposedly more authentically radical revolutionaries, Jacobins did away with their supposedly less radical first-generation Girondists, who themselves had helped to liquidate the French monarchy and many of the Ancient Régime. What followed Robespierre’s […]
Mattis Is More Valuable Than Ever
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Michael O’Hanlon presented recently a persuasive argument why Defense Secretary James Mattis should stay on the job for at least the duration of Trump’s first term in order to finish his current initiatives — apparently in response to unsubstantiated rumors that Mattis’s reputation has grown among some anti-Trump establishment circles […]
Fallout from the Kavanaugh Hearings: A Permanent Cloud?
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Conventional wisdom suggests that, if confirmed, Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh forever will be “smeared” and stained by past frenzied unfounded allegations of sexual assault. Yet the opposite just as well may be true. As a Supreme Court justice, Kavanaugh would have withstood every imaginable smear and slander and yet […]
Angry Reader 10-02-2018
From An Angry Reader: Dear Dr. Hanson, I am an angry reader. I am angry because my two candidates for Senator from the state of California are both evil and/or just plain stupid. Who should I vote for? Or should I sit that choice out? I’m leaning to the latter. Yours, Dave Payton ———————————————————— Dear […]
Epitaph for a Dying Culture
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and their endless sequelae have ended up as an epitaph for a spent culture for which its remedies are felt to be worse than its diseases. Think 338 B.C., A.D. 476, 1453, or 1939. The coordinated effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. […]
Kavanaugh’s Testimony Was His Joseph N. Welch Moment
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Christina Ford’s testimony did not alter, positively or negatively, the facts of her allegations. She still cannot adduce where or when the alleged assault of 36 years prior occurred, or how she arrived at, or departed from, the alleged, but unnamed, location of the assault, or how many people […]
The Truths Behind Our Current Political Turmoil
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Are there any guiding principles that can make sense of the sensational news that now overwhelms the senses seemingly every hour? What is common to blaring headlines about the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearings, an anti-Trump “resistance” buried deep in the permanent bureaucracy, and the improper behavior by […]