Pseudo-Recessions
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As the 1992 campaign approached, incumbent president George H.W. Bush was seen as a shoo-in for reelection. The First Gulf War ended in 1991 with a spectacular U.S. victory at the head of a coalition that had expelled Saddam Hussein from Kuwait with few losses. For much of 1991, Bush’s […]
VDH UltraDEI Is The Most ‘Toxic Ideology’ We’ve Ever Experienced
VDH and Jack examine the consequences of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideology on American institutions and public life, observing that DEI has replaced meritocracy with exemptions based on identity, undermining accountability and fueling corruption, fraud, and public distrust, while also explaining how DEI incentivizes grievance over excellence and perpetuates failure by lowering standards rather than […]
VDH UltraA Life of Comically Calamitous Close Calls: New Haven, Connecticut (Summer 1972), Part One
Victor Davis Hanson I was teen-aged, broke, had never been out of the state, or flown anywhere. And I quickly learned the Greek class was mostly for graduate students in history, philosophy, and linguistics, with a few undergraduate Latin students who wished to take Greek. The course was designed to help students master all of […]
VDH UltraA Life of Comically Calamitous Close Calls: Introduction
Victor Davis Hanson I’ve been very lucky in dodging bullets but even more unlucky in finding them. Over some 55 years, I found myself in some of the worst situations imaginable. And post facto, I realize that I got myself into these jams due to my own negligence and lack of circumspection. And yet somehow, […]
‘Demonstrably Untrue’: VDH Rebuts Tucker Carlson’s Israel, Qatar Claims
Tucker Carlson favored putting America’s strategic relationship with the Gulf states, most namely Qatar, ahead of Israel, arguing that the Jewish state was a “completely insignificant country” with “no resources,” during the Doha Forum earlier this month. VDH responds to Carlson’s claims that Israel offers little strategic value to the United States, laying out Israel’s […]
VDH Ultra‘Demonstrably Untrue’: VDH Rebuts Tucker Carlson’s Israel, Qatar Claims
Tucker Carlson favored putting America’s strategic relationship with the Gulf states, most namely Qatar, ahead of Israel, arguing that the Jewish state was a “completely insignificant country” with “no resources,” during the Doha Forum earlier this month. VDH responds to Carlson’s claims that Israel offers little strategic value to the United States, laying out Israel’s […]
Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the October 7 massacres. An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of threats of violence from Muslim minorities. In the West, when an Islamist shoots a Jew, politicians often offer […]
I’m Not Racist for Saying Somalis Stole a Billion Dollars
VDH and Jack take aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s trash talking America and how mass immigration without assimilation gives you what you’re seeing in Minnesota.
VDH UltraI’m Not Racist for Saying Somalis Stole a Billion Dollars
VDH and Jack take aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s trash talking America and how mass immigration without assimilation gives you what you’re seeing in Minnesota.
Australia’s Rich History of ‘Rugged Individuals’ Put to the Test Following Terror Attack
VDH and Sami dissect Australia’s reaction to the Hanukkah massacre and how the West downplays antisemitic violence.
VDH UltraDems are Lying but not Baiting
Victor Davis Hanson uses the 1992 presidential election to argue that Democrats’ heckling about affordability is not an issue to leave uncontested for 2026. (Friday Ultra)
VDH Ultra‘The West is Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews. It’s Just Sick’
VDH and Sami dissect Australia’s reaction to the Hanukkah massacre and how the West downplays antisemitic violence.
Can the Dark Ages Return?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece. But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism, liberty, freedom of expression, self-critique, and free markets—what we know […]
The Lefts’ Gun Control Messaging Is Simply a ‘Moral Out’
VDH and Jack discuss immigration and gun control in the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia, the reaction of Trump to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, and the Left’s response to all of it.
VDH Ultra‘You Don’t Criticize People in Oedipean Fashion That Are Killed by Their Sons’
VDH and Jack discuss immigration and gun control in the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia, the reaction of Trump to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, and the Left’s response to all of it.
VDH UltraHow DEI Hurts America, Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson 5. Why is DEI dying? Like all commissariats, DEI is expensive. It requires legions of drone commissars to monitor and audit ideology—in this case, tribal essentialism. How many nonproductive auditors as overhead can a society afford? Go back into time and ask the former Soviet Union or Mao’s failed Cultural Revolutionaries? And […]
VDH UltraHow DEI Hurts America, Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson 4. What were the costs to America of DEI? Once race, sex, and sexual orientation were pronounced proof of victimization, then preferences and exemptions obviated the very tenets of civilization, law, and culture. Swarm the border, enter unlawfully, reside illegally—and what followed? De facto amnesty and non-enforcement of laws. Subsidies for housing, […]
Biden Left Trump in a Lurch in Syria
VDH and Jack discuss former President Joe Biden’s failure to make sure our adversaries in Syria paid a cost for attacking Americans, and the failure of so many immigrants to say “thank you” for all we do.
VDH Ultra‘We Never Get Any Thanks for What We Do’
VDH and Jack discuss former President Joe Biden’s failure to make sure our adversaries in Syria paid a cost for attacking Americans, and the failure of so many immigrants to say “thank you” for all we do.
It’s Affordability, Stupid?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The recent Democratic cry of “affordability” is ironic in many ways. The left-wing narrative of Trump hyperinflation was one of desperation and came only after previous memes had failed to resonate. The 2025 generic “dictator,” “fascist,” and “Nazi” smear points never helped the left much. Nor did the nihilist government […]