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. […]
After Words with Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson discusses the campaign, election, and presidency of Donald Trump. He’s interviewed by former Congressman Dave Brat (R-VA). Watch the full interview on C-Span here.
The NeverTrump Bitter Enders
Bruce Thornton // Front Page Magazine As Trump enters his third year of office, some Republican NeverTrumpers have gotten control of the symptoms of Trumpophobia, and have settled for the occasional snarky asides to maintain their anti-Trump bona fides while they write about serious issues rather than Trump’s alleged crypto-fascist assault on “democratic norms.” Others, […]
When Cabin Boys Attack
Julie Kelly // American Greatness Victor Davis Hanson is about as accomplished and credentialed a commentator you can find. He’s an author, a military historian, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a farmer in California. President George W. Bush awarded Hanson the National Humanities Award in 2007. By all accounts and appearances, he is […]
The Bulwark Embarrasses Itself Further With Attack on Victor Davis Hanson
Roger Kimball // PJ Media Being of a charitable disposition, I early on decided that the kindest response to The Bulwark, the NeverTrump redoubt started by Bill Kristol following the implosion of the Weekly Standard, was silence. If this tiny cohort of bitter and unhappy souls was determined to embarrass themselves in public, the best […]
Waging War Against the Dead
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The 21st century is in danger of becoming an era of statue smashing and historical erasure. Not since the iconoclasts of the Byzantine Empire or the epidemic of statue destruction during the French Revolution has the world seen anything like the current war on the past. In 2001, the […]