VDH UltraIranian Endgame Scenarios
Nearing the end of its second week, Victor Davis Hanson presents three possible outcomes for the ongoing Iran war, discusses its precedents, and addresses popular sentiment.
The “Pandemic of Lunacy”: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy | J. Budziszewski
University of Texas at Austin professor and moral philosopher Prof. J. Budziszewski discusses his new book, The Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy, which examines 30 modern delusions and why they spread. He argues today’s irrationality is motivated, often contains a grain of truth, and metastasizes as one […]
VDH UltraThe “Pandemic of Lunacy”: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy | J. Budziszewski
University of Texas at Austin professor and moral philosopher Prof. J. Budziszewski discusses his new book, The Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy, which examines 30 modern delusions and why they spread. He argues today’s irrationality is motivated, often contains a grain of truth, and metastasizes as one […]
VDH UltraThe Nature and Cause of Western Self-Loathing. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson The correction for our oikophobia is obvious, requiring structural change and a complete transformation in our mindsets and outlook. First, our schools must reinstate civic education and reemphasize honest history. The latter must be taught as tragedy, not hokey, dumbed-down melodrama. Take the American West. We have reduced the historic settlement of […]
VDH UltraThe Nature and Cause of Western Self-Loathing. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson So why do we see these endless ICE, campus, race, and Middle East demonstrations, not aimed at reasonable dissent, but often descending into open hatred of the U.S. and its values and traditions? Why does Europe allow millions of immigrants, many entering illegally, who have no intention of assimilating, acculturating, or integrating […]
Our Long Road to War With Iran
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Until last year, for some 46 years, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: always unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, inevitably to be nuclear, self-destructive, and nihilistic. All that said, was it really ever all that formidable? The mullahs came into power after the removal of […]
A US Ground War With Iran Would Be Costly and Likely Unnecessary
Many Americans are wary of U.S. boots on the ground in the Middle East after the Afghanistan and Iraq wars that became “endless.” President Trump’s comment about possible “boots on the ground” is likely just “Art of the Deal” rhetoric, explains Victor Davis Hanson. “I think his point was that you’re never going to tell […]
VDH UltraA US Ground War With Iran Would Be Costly and Likely Unnecessary
Many Americans are wary of U.S. boots on the ground in the Middle East after the Afghanistan and Iraq wars that became “endless.” President Trump’s comment about possible “boots on the ground” is likely just “Art of the Deal” rhetoric, explains Victor Davis Hanson. “I think his point was that you’re never going to tell […]
The $64,000 Question in the US-Iran War
With Iran’s military capability seriously degraded, one of the major questions is whether regime change can be effected by air power alone or if grounds troops would have to be committed in support of a popular, but largely unarmed, uprising. Victor Davis Hanson provides his take on how the war is progressing thus far, the […]
VDH UltraThe $64,000 Question in the US-Iran War
With Iran’s military capability seriously degraded, one of the major questions is whether regime change can be effected by air power alone or if grounds troops would have to be committed in support of a popular, but largely unarmed, uprising. Victor Davis Hanson provides his take on how the war is progressing thus far, the […]
VDH UltraAmerica Lost Its Maritime Power and China Filled the Void | Chris O’Dea
China has created “the operating system for the globalized economy,” putting other countries at its mercy. Chris O’Dea, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, explains how China has built strategic influence through commercial shipping networks, ports, and infrastructure, potentially giving it a significant geopolitical boost over both the U.S. and the entire global economy.
America Lost Its Maritime Power and China Filled the Void | Chris O’Dea
China has created “the operating system for the globalized economy,” putting other countries at its mercy. Chris O’Dea, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, explains how China has built strategic influence through commercial shipping networks, ports, and infrastructure, potentially giving it a significant geopolitical boost over both the U.S. and the entire global economy.
VDH UltraTwo Countries, One Goal
Victor Davis Hanson evaluates why the US is attacking Iran alongside Israel, the nature of the US-Israeli partnership, and many circulating ideas about that partnership.
Pennsylvania’s Policy Battles: Energy Independence, School Choice, and America 250 | Andrew Lewis
Pennsylvania is “tied to the American story.” It’s the state that gave power to both the first and second industrial revolutions, saved the union at Gettysburg, and hosted the Constitutional convention. Andrew Lewis, Iraq war veteran and president of the Commonwealth Foundation, discusses why Pennsylvania matters nationally and how state-based think tanks turn free-market ideas […]
VDH UltraPennsylvania’s Policy Battles: Energy Independence, School Choice, and America 250 | Andrew Lewis
Pennsylvania is “tied to the American story.” It’s the state that gave power to both the first and second industrial revolutions, saved the union at Gettysburg, and hosted the Constitutional convention. Andrew Lewis, Iraq war veteran and president of the Commonwealth Foundation, discusses why Pennsylvania matters nationally and how state-based think tanks turn free-market ideas […]
VDH UltraThe Nature and Cause of Western Self-Loathing. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson The Western world—Europe, many of the former British Commonwealth nations, the U.S., and Westernized allies in Asia—is still the envy of the world. Its aggregate economies make up more than half the world’s GDP. Nevertheless, while its population is only 14 percent of the world total, the top fifty countries on the […]
VDH UltraSusan Rice and “Payback”
Victor Davis Hanson Susan Rice, one of the national security advisors under Barack Obama, in a recent interview warns universities, corporations, and elites of all types that anyone who has cooperated with Trump’s executive orders (largely on matters of following the Supreme Court’s anti-affirmative action rulings and Trump’s ban on DEI programs?) would face payback […]
Trump’s Way of War
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness War is the use of arms to settle differences—tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material—between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given the constancy of human nature. However, the manner in which war is conducted remains fluid. New weapons, tactics, and strategies elicit counterresponses […]
VDH UltraYou Can’t Negotiate With The ‘Fanatic Ideologues’ in Iran
In the early hours of Saturday, Feb. 28, the United States, at the direction of President Donald Trump, and in close coordination with Israeli allies, initiated Operation Epic Fury against the Iranian regime. Within 24 hours, more than 1,000 sites were hit and the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was dead following an Israeli strike in […]
You Can’t Negotiate With The ‘Fanatic Ideologues’ in Iran
In the early hours of Saturday, Feb. 28, the United States, at the direction of President Donald Trump, and in close coordination with Israeli allies, initiated Operation Epic Fury against the Iranian regime. Within 24 hours, more than 1,000 sites were hit and the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was dead following an Israeli strike in […]