Victor Davis Hanson We are in the second week of a joint American–Israeli intensive bombing of the Iranian theocracy. Most of the Iranian military is now inert. The United States and Israel enjoy air supremacy in the skies over Iran. Iran’s daily launching of missiles and drones is dropping to a tenth of the first […]
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Traditional Immigrant Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others. The Greek American Elia Kazan’s 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director’s
The legacy media continues to downplay recent bombing attempts and other violent incidents tied to illegal immigrants, arguing “Islamophobia” is overstated while antisemitism rises. Victor Davis Hanson criticizes the 1965 immigration shift toward family-based entry, saying the Left excuses illegality and anti-Americanism, and connects these trends to tribal politics. VDH and Jack mock a proposed
Iran’s “chaos strategy” consists of threatening the Strait of Hormuz and striking regional targets, weighing U.S. and Israeli escalation options amid Donald Trump’s political constraints before the midterms and concerns over oil markets. VDH also addresses controversy over a girls’ school allegedly struck near a military base, noting uncertainty over responsibility and the likelihood of
Victor Davis Hanson interviews former USC president and engineer Max Nikias about his memoir, American Trojan, tracing Nikias’s journey from a poor village in Cyprus to U.S. citizenship and academic leadership. Nikias recounts studying engineering in Athens during Greece’s military dictatorship and witnessing the 1973 Polytechnic uprising, then returning home as Cyprus was invaded by
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. Share This
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
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
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
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