Are Trump’s Tariffs Really Tariffs?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries. Both American and foreign critics blasted them variously as either counterproductive and suicidal or unfair, imperialistic, and xenophobic. Certainly, tariffs are widely hated by doctrinaire economists. They complain that tariffs burden consumers with

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VDH UltraThe Left Goes from Madness to Irrelevance, Part One

Various polls show historical lows of public support for the Democratic Party, ranging from 31 to 41 percent approval. Yet at the same time during a recent Democrat leadership conference, various panelists unanimously claimed that racism and sexism alone accounted for the defeat of Kamala Harris. Do they think, then, that white male Joe Biden

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VDH UltraTrump’s First Two Weeks: Pardonomania, Part Three

Now we come to Dr. Anthony Fauci. For some 38 years, he ran the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as his private fiefdom. Given the revolving-door tenures of the directors of the larger, grantmaking National Institutes of Health (NIH) during that era, Fauci also had enormous influence over its some $50 billion

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Return to Normality and Meritocracy

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to examine the status of Venezuela, China, Colombia, and the Middle East in the Trump administration, universities and diplomacy returning to normal, cutting back useless and dangerous DEI programs, Democratic strategists blind, the plane crash in DC, and Ibram X. Kendi’s Boston University center closes. Share This

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