Don’t Forget Middle East Madness
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review Thanks to the Iran deal, the mullahs can buy nearly all the weapons they need. There is currently a real Asian pivot as the president completes one of the longest presidential tours of Asia in memory. Three carrier battle groups are in the West Pacific. America […]
Whatever doesn’t kill Trump only makes him stronger
Los Angeles Times Victor Davis Hanson Former FBI Director James B. Comey attends a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing in Washington on June 8. (Brendan Smialowsk / AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump presides as he campaigned. He is proving a Nietzschean figure in the sense that “what does not kill him […]
Who Gets to Have Nuclear Weapons — and Why?
By Victor Davis Hanson// National Review The rules used to be controlled by two big powers, but not anymore. Given North Korea’s nuclear lunacy, what exactly are the rules, formal or implicit, about which nations may have nuclear weapons and which may not? It is complicated. In the free-for-all environment of […]
VDH Ultra
11/06/2017 From An Angry Reader: Professor Davis, In your recent article “The Method to Trump’s Madness”, you claim Trump’s insults are retaliation to those who have said things against him. Even if that is (partially) true, that does not justify Trump’s immaturity and cruelty. In many instances, Trump’s name-calling was unprovoked. During the […]
Interviews With VDH On His New Book, The Second World Wars
Check out the latest interviews with Victor Davis Hanson on his new book, The Second World Wars. Listen to The Classicist: Part I The Second World Wars Listen to The Classicist: Part II Behind the Book: The Second World Wars Listen to Victor Davis Hanson speak about this book on the podcast, Public […]
NATO For the 21st Century: Ensuring Liberal Democracy In Europe
NATO was originally founded after World War II to ensure that liberal democracy survived in Europe. While the fall of the Soviet Union may have led many to question whether NATO was still necessary, its mission remains vital and relevant. NATO should resist the temptation to expand its geographic focus. For more information related to […]
Steele dossier farce shows why Trump relies on Twitter
The Hill By Paul R. Gregory, opinion contributor — 10/27/17 The media refrain on the Trump dossier has been that “considerable amounts of it have been proven.” No one had explained exactly what has been proven, however, until The Washington Post decided to answer the question itself. Per the Post, the Trump dossier must […]
Victor Davis Hanson’s interview with Lewis Lapham for The World in Time is now available: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/victor-davis-hanson
The ‘Never Trump’ Construct
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review The president’s fiercest critics still do not grasp that Trump is a symptom, not the cause of the GOP’s internal strife. For all the talk of a Civil War in the Republican party over Donald Trump, 90 percent of Republicans ended up voting for him. Bitterness Over […]
North Korea Knowns and Unknowns
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review We are in the middle, not at the end, of a long North Korean crisis. No one really knows all that much about North Korea’s nuclear or conventional military capability or its strategic agenda. Are its nuclear missiles reliably lethal, are they as long-ranged and accurate as […]
An Avoidable Great War
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review Far from being inevitable, World War II resulted from the Allies’ failure to muster their combined resources and power in the service of deterring Hitler. Editor’s Note: The following is the fourth and final installment in a series of excerpts adapted from Victor Davis Hanson’s new book The […]
Trump’s Constructive Chaos
by Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas Almost daily, President Trump manages to incense the media, alarm the world abroad, and enrage his Democratic opposition. Not since Ronald Reagan’s first year in office has change and disruption come so fast from the White House. Let’s consider foreign affairs first. In response to North Korea’s nuclear threats […]
The Deadly Cost of Mutual Misunderstanding
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review Hitler went to war without an accurate conception of the Allies’ strength. The Allies did the same without an accurate conception of Hitler’s ambition. Unprecedented bloodshed ensued. Editor’s Note: The following is the third in a series of excerpts adapted from Victor Davis Hanson’s new book The Second […]
Status Quo Blues
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review The public is turning away from the institutions that used to unite Americans — the NFL, mainstream news, late-night TV, movies . . . The familiar cultural order of the last half-century is crumbling — partly because of larger forces beyond its control, partly from self-inflicted wounds, […]
VDH Ultra
From An Angry Reader: You created this Frankenstein. You have a lot to answer for. G-d is looking down on you, and He is not smiling. You all are in your 80s. That’s the good thing in all this. Nobody lives forever and you all are a helluva lot closer to the “final reward” than […]
In Defense of ‘the Generals’
The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review Recently there have been a number of quite different critiques from all political sides of Trump’s generals (Kelly/McMaster/Mattis), and also from a variety of angles (too narrow experience, an unhealthy overdose of military thinking, a “sellout” for working for the likes of […]
The Axis Was Outmatched from the Start
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review Hitler and his Axis cohorts couldn’t match their enemies’ resources to begin with. That they learned all the wrong lessons from military history while the Allies learned all the right ones doomed them. Editor’s Note: The following is the second in a series of excerpts adapted from […]
The Method to Trump’s ‘Madness’
By Victor Davis Hanson| American Greatness The Democratic Party, as it did after Hubert Humphrey’s close loss in 1968, seems still to be misdiagnosing its 2016 defeat. Democrats see too little identity politics rather than too much as their trouble, and thus are redoubling on what has been slowly shrinking the party into coastal enclaves. […]
It’s 1968 All Over Again
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The United States and the world appear to be reliving the language, politics, and global instability of 1968. Almost a half-century ago, in 1968, the United States seemed to be falling apart. The Vietnam War, a bitter and close presidential election, antiwar protests, racial riots, […]