The New, New Anti-Semitism
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The old anti-Semitism was mostly, but not exclusively, a tribal prejudice expressed in America up until the mid 20th century most intensely on the right. It manifested itself from the silk-stocking country club and corporation (“gentlemen’s agreement”) to the rawer regions of the Ku Klux Klan’s lunatic fringe. While […]
The Game of Pseudo-Authenticity
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Americans always have been prone to reinventing themselves. We now live in an age of radical social construction—a sort of expansive update on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American notion of becoming anyone one pleases. One common denominator, however, seems to govern today’s endless search for some sort of authenticity: a […]
The Ironies of Illegal Immigration
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Estimates suggest that there are eleven million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. Millions more emigrated previously and are now U.S. citizens. A recent poll revealed that one-third of Mexicans (34 percent) would like to emigrate to the United States. With Mexico having […]
Can Higher Education Be Saved?
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review America is schizophrenic about its major universities and, to a lesser extent, its undergraduate colleges. On the one hand, higher education’s professional schools in medicine and business, as well as graduate and undergraduate programs in math, science, and engineering, are the world’s best. America dominates the lists of the […]
Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock market gyrations, the melodramas of the Robert Mueller investigation, and the musical-chair tenures of officials in the Trump Administration. The government is still shut down. Talk of impeachment […]
An Epidemic of Erasures, Redactions, Omissions, and Perjuries
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Imagine the following: The IRS sends you, John Q. Citizen, a letter alleging you have not complied with U.S. tax law. In the next paragraph, the tax agency then informs you that it needs a series of personal and business documents. Indeed, it will be sending agents out to […]
It Was Always about the Wall
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review There was likely never going to be “comprehensive immigration reform” or any deal amnestying the DACA recipients in exchange for building the wall. Democrats in the present political landscape will not consent to a wall. For them, a successful border wall is now considered bad politics in almost every […]
The Departure of Mattis and Engagements in the Middle East
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The near-destruction of ISIS in a matter of months (losing 99 percent of its landed caliphate), the restoration of sound defense budgeting, a reestablished sense of deterrence, and stable recalibration with allies were the signature achievements of James Mattis. And it seems a mistake not to have him finish […]
The Liberal Arts Weren’t Murdered — They Committed Suicide
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The great culture wars on the campuses of the 1980s were largely lost by traditionalists. And the question then became not if but when the liberal arts would die off as a result. What is strange nearly 40 years later is that the apparent outrage over what was clearly […]
The Globalist Mindset: They Hate You
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Against what or whom is the contemporary Western public pushing back? The French non-Parisians against new green taxes on already unaffordable gasoline? Broke southern European Union nations against the financial demands of German bankers? The Eastern Europeans against French and German open-border mandates? The British masses against both the […]
Comey Continues to Display His Lack of Credibility
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Fired former FBI director James Comey is at it again. Last week, Comey testified before members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In a single appearance, Comey, on 245 separate occasions, while under oath, stonewalled questions with “I don’t know,” “I don’t […]
The Dangers of Asymmetry
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review It is strange how suddenly a skeptical Wall Street, CEOs, and even university and think-tank policy analysts are now jumping on the once-taboo Trump bandwagon on China: that if something is not done to stop China’s planned trajectory to global hegemony, based on its repudiation of the entire post-war […]
Defeat and the Dossier Explain Everything
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Donald Trump’s former consiglieri Michael Cohen, along with being charged with tax avoidance and improper business deals, allegedly is guilty also of trying to leverage money and attention by exaggerating his influence with candidate and later President Trump. In other words, Cohen to spec followed the standard creepy daily […]
Putin’s latest Ukraine stunt may blow up in his face
Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Germany postures itself as the conscience of Europe. It takes in floods of refugees and scolds those who do not. It claims to guard European unity against the nation-state and ridicules the United States for electing a real estate developer as president. […]
The Rise Of The New Old Left
Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution In the 1960s, campus radicals were branded the New Left. The media saw the mélange of radicals like Bill Ayers, David Delinger, Jane Fonda, Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Herbert Marcuse, Jerry Rubin—as well as hippies, the Black Panthers, the gay liberation movement, La Raza, women’s liberation, draft resistance, and […]
Nothing Exempt: 102. Dr Victor Davis Hanson
Listen in on my most recent interview with Nothing Exempt: #podcast today is a special interview with guest Dr Victor Davis Hanson he is a columnist, author, and overall #HighIQ We explored the #demographic problem in California and the direction of the state. The tail end of the conversation discusses the #intervensionism of American foreign […]
The Perpetual Presidency
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Former President Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his successor, Donald Trump. Obama’s charges are paradoxical. On one hand, Obama seems to believe that he, rather than Trump, should be credited with the current economic boom and the emergence of the United States as the […]
Victor Davis Hanson on Trump’s Candor
Please watch my recent interview with Conduit News on Trump’s Candor. Watch the video here.
Angry Reader 12-05-2018
From An Angry Reader: Subject: on California’s horrific wildfires Dr. Hanson’s ARTICLE omits 3 important aspects Dear Dr Hanson, A friend from Santa Monica pointed out 3 important things that your article omitted. Is her critique something you can consider & respond to? Yours, Marty MD Anonymous critique: It’s a mix. He’s a Hoover Institute […]
Angry Reader 12-04-2018
From An Angry Reader: Since you never state that POTUS lies 80-85% of the time when he speaks publicly, what are some examples of his fake news. Who has discredited the main stream news other than POTUS? On a scale of 1 to 10 just how right wing is the Hoover Institute at Stanford University? […]