Indoctrination Saturation
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review A definition of totalitarianism might be the saturation of every facet of daily life by political agendas and social-justice messaging. At the present rate, America will soon resemble the dystopias of novels such as 1984 and Brave New World in which all aspects of life are warped by an all-encompassing ideology of coerced sameness. […]
Americans won’t vote for socialism once they know what it is
Here is a piece by one of my colleagues. Paul Roderick Gregory // The Hill A series of polls have shown that pluralities of Democrats and millennials prefer socialism to capitalism. These surveys also make clear that respondents do not know what socialism is. Also Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has shown that Democratic primary voters will cast their ballots […]
Hanson: Struggle Between Elites And Masses Defines US Policy
Clifton Parker // Hoover Institution Victor Davis Hanson says history offers lessons for today’s technology-driven world, especially when it comes to elites, the masses, and the future of society. “When the masses feel their will is not reflected in government policies or respected by the professional classes that manages society, then historically there can be a pushback […]
The Truth Will Set Us All Free
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was star-crossed from the start. His friend and successor as FBI director, James Comey, by his own admission prompted the investigation — with the deliberate leaking of classified memos about his conversations with President Donald Trump to the press. Mueller then unnecessarily stocked his […]
A Post-Trump World
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review It has been quite a ride since Inauguration Day — or, rather, from Michael Wolff to Omarosa and Michael Cohen, or from the Emoluments Clause to the 25th Amendment, or from talk of decapitating Trump to talk of blowing up the White House. Yet what might happen should Trump […]
The Ideology of Statue Smashing
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Statue smashing is back in the news. One night last week, University of North Carolina students pulled down “Silent Sam,” a bronze monument to students and faculty of the university who fought as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. The bronze figure is portrayed as static, quiet and without […]
The Diversity of Illegal Immigration
Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution I live on farm beside a rural avenue in central California, the fifth generation to reside in the same house. And after years of thefts, home break-ins, and dangerous encounters, I have concluded that it is no longer safe to live where I was born. I stay for a […]
The Bombs of August
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium-fueled atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, another U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 repeated the attack on Nagasaki, Japan, with an even more powerful plutonium bomb. Less than a month after the second bombing, Imperial Japan agreed to […]
The Reexamination of Security Clearances Was Long Overdue
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Much has been written about former CIA and FBI official Philip Mudd’s recent unhinged outburst on CNN against Paris Dennard for the latter’s credible suggestion that many ex-officials have monetized the fact that they have retained their security clearances. Dennard was suggesting that those with security clearances, with a […]
Angry Reader 08-22-2018
From An Angry Reader: Subject: Treasonous Historians You are liar like Trump and you and your fellow Comprotnik should be breaking rocks in Leavenworth… Trying to undermine Mueller won’t work, the report will be devastating. You will be shown just as treasonous, and obviously racist, as the Putin puppet….For memory, how long did the Clinton […]
From One Psychodrama to Another
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Michael Wolff and his media-hyped blockbuster—that supposedly game-changing landmark of a book Fire and Fury—are now ancient history. Fading similarly is Karen McDougal, Playboy‘s 1998 Playmate of the Year, and her National Enquirer grifter lawsuit that was also supposed to destroy the Trump presidency. We are by now mostly tired with Stormy Daniels […]
Was the Pre-Trump World Normal or Abnormal?
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Much of the controversy that surrounds the policies of Donald Trump can be explained as a reaction to the past. He was either clumsily disrupting the sacrosanct or trying to resurrect what was lost. In other words, what you feel about Trump is inseparable from what you think of […]
The Double Standards of Postmodern Justice
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Our institutions offer no principles to explain why some people’s lives are harmed or destroyed, and others’ lives are not. The New York Times recently hired as a writer and board member Sarah Jeong. The Times knew that in recent years Jeong had posted a series of unapologetically racist anti-white tweets. She had […]
John Brennan’s Security Clearance
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Scarier than former CIA chief John Brennan losing his security clearance is the idea that he ever had one in the first place. Perhaps to avoid the appearance of partisanship in pulling the security clearances of former intelligence chiefs, the Trump administration should now abide by some sort of […]
Chinese Foreign Investment: A Perspective
Please read the following editorial by my college James D. Jameson. It is hard to understate the impact that foreign investment has played in transforming China into the world’s second largest economy. While direct investment might have peaked, China is still moving toward opening its stock markets to draw in foreign capital. Policymakers in Beijing hope […]
The Legacies of Robert Mueller’s Investigations
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Some 450 days ago we were treated to melodramatic announcements from the media about the start-up of Robert Mueller’s “dream” and “all-star” team. Reporters gushed in the general hysteria of the times that Mueller would no doubt soon indict President Trump, some of his family, and almost anyone else […]
The Deflation of the Academic Brand
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Trumpism is sometimes derided as an updated know-nothingism that rejects expertise and the input of credentialed expertise. Supposedly, professionals who could now save us tragically have their talent untapped as they sit idle at the Council of Foreign Relations, the economics Department at Harvard, or in the offices of […]
08-13-2018 Angry Reader
From An Angry Reader: Subject: You are a racist idiot Your articles and ideas lower the IQ of this country every time they are published. The racism you employ in articles about Black Lives Matter, Crime, and pretty much anything you write is so disgusting its hard to swallow. Truly die in a hole. ————————————————————— […]
The Ancient War Between the Press and the President
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The media are furious that President Trump serially decries “fake news.” He often rants that journalists who traffic in it are “enemies of the people.” Reporters have compared Trump to mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler because of his dislike of the press. Trump may be crude to […]
The Police Were Not Policed
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review No doubt Russia must be watched for its chronic efforts to sow more chaos in American elections — despite Barack Obama’s naïve assertion in 2016 that no entity could possibly ever rig a U.S. election, given the decentralization of state voting. Lately the heads of four U.S. intelligence and […]