Strategika Issue 49: The Value of Economic Sanctions
Sanctions: The Record And The Rewards Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Josef Joffe in Strategika Why are sanctions so popular? Because “there is nothing else between words and military action to bring pressure upon a government,” explains Jeremy Greenstock, Britain’s long-term ambassador at the UN. It […]
Washington’s Fantasies Are Not People’s Reality
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The Beltway’s sober and judicious foreign-policy establishment laments Donald Trump’s purported dismantling of the postwar order. They apparently take the president’s words as deeds and their own innate dislike of him as disinterested analysis. But is the world really imploding after 70 years of supposed “calm”? (Disregarding the Korean […]
Our Unelected Officials’ Distortions
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review On March 17, former CIA director John Brennan tweeted about the current president of the United States: “When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. . . . […]
03/28/2018 Angry Reader
From An Angry Reader: Mr. Hanson, About 15 or 20 years ago, I used to read your articles voraciously. I sent them to fellow graduate students—nearly all of whom were overwhelmingly liberal—in order to give them a jolting shot of truth. That was then, this is now. I recently took a peek at some of […]
Where Are the Left’s Modern Muckrakers?
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was an epic fight of so-called muckrakers — journalists and novelists such as Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell, along with trust-busting politicians like Teddy Roosevelt — against rail, steel, and oil monopolies. Whatever one thought of […]
Camouflaged Elites
Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution Even in the mostly egalitarian city-states of relatively poor classical Greece, the wealthy were readily identifiable. A man of privilege was easy to spot by his remarkable possession of a horse, the fine quality of his tunic, or by his mastery of Greek syntax and vocabulary. An anonymous and […]
Our Long History of Misjudging North Korea
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review There’s a lot to learn from seventy years of failure to stop the Kim regimes’ aggression. North Korea has befuddled the United States and its Asian allies ever since North Korean leader Kim Il-sung launched the invasion of South Korea in June 1950. Prior to the attack, the United […]
Overlooked in Putin’s Reelection: The Kremlin’s Challenge Is From The Left
Please read a new essay by my Hoover colleague, Paul Gregory. Paul Gregory // Forbes Vladimir Putin has destroyed his liberal-democratic opposition led by Alexei Navalny and the late Boris Nemtsov through repression. The March 2018 election reveals that danger to the Putin regime comes from a communist left reconstituted along European lines. This takeaway […]
My War With Russian Trolls
Please read a new essay by my Hoover colleague, Paul Gregory. Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine has two overarching goals. First, the Russian people must believe the Kremlin version of domestic and world events. In this regard, the agents of Russian “information technology” have succeeded. Polls show that Russians believe that Russia is a super power in a […]
Scandal Questions Never Asked, Much Less Answered
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Sometimes the hysteria of crowds causes them to overlook the obvious. Here is a series of 12 questions that do not seem to trouble anyone, but the answers to these should expose why so many of the people today alleging scandals should themselves be considered scandalous. 1) Had Hillary Clinton […]
The Confederate Mind
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Progressives such as Elizabeth Warren resurrect the race-based thinking of the antebellum South: ‘One drop’ and you’re a bona fide minority. Senator Elizabeth Warren has doubled down on her insistence that she is Native American. THE NEW ONE-DROP FIXATION In her past incarnations, she probably used that yarn in […]
Leave McMaster Be
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review About every two months, there are rumors that Gen. H. R. McMaster might be let go as Trump’s national-security adviser (along with many other stellar appointees). The world, however, is a much more logical and predictable place than it was 14 months ago. We’ve restored ties to the Gulf […]
Lessons from Germany’s ‘Spring Offensive,’ 100 Years Later
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Germany lost World War I in a matter of months after near victory. The lessons from that defeat are still valuable today. One hundred years ago this month, all hell broke loose in France. On March 21, 1918, the German army on the Western Front unleashed a series of […]
03/13/2018 Angry Reader
From An Angry Reader: You might have had that intolerable delay because of my son and I (sic). We’re (sic) you the old guy with the nasty glare? We are use (sic) to people like you. Did you ever hear the phrase, “liberty for all” or “equality for all?” You are a Trumpite, which means […]
Swamp Things in the Russia Investigation
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness “The Swamp” usually refers to the vast federal bureaucratic machinery of mostly unelected top officials who exercise influence and power without worry about the appearance of conflicts of interest. They are often exempt from the consequences of the laws and regulations that affect others. The chief characteristics of the […]
The New Left Trumps the Old Right
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Anti-Semitism, racism, deception, and dirty tricks: For progressives, the ends justify the means. ‘White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan, by God’s grace, has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew, and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is […]
The Rapid ‘Progress’ of Progressivism
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review It leads to an endless race for equality and erodes prior rules.Not long ago I waited for a flight to board. The plane took off 45 minutes late. There were only two attendants to accommodate eleven passengers who had requested wheelchair assistance. Such growing efforts to ensure that the […]
Putin’s nuclear posturing part of effort to win back displeased public
This article is by a colleague of mine: Dr. Paul Gregory // The Hill Vladimir Putin served up his election platform for his perfunctory March 18 re-election in his annual address to the two houses of Russia’s parliament on Thursday. Putin addressed two audiences — the Russian people and his external enemies, namely the U.S. and NATO. Putin […]
Strategika Issue 48: U.S. Military Policy in Afghanistan
Since the war in Afghanistan began in late 2001, three successive presidential administrations have claimed that the Taliban are on the verge of collapse, the Afghan military is close to securing the country, and Afghan leaders in Kabul are just one step away from providing legitimate governance. Click here to read more at the Hoover […]
Trump Syndromes
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Trump creates hysteria, both rabid antipathies and fervent support. General chaos surrounds President Trump. Few dispute that. All argue over the origins, causes, and nature of these wild reactions to our president. The Left’s Hatred Take the Left’s loathing of Trump that arises from three sources. First, Trump supposedly […]