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Biden and the Left-wing Standard of Attacking the President

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness As Joe Biden entered office in January 2021, there still roared a left-wing revolution, a woke madness spreading through popular culture and Congress, much of which he indirectly has aided and abetted. It has redefined not just politics but the rules of the presidency. And the eventual casualty of […]

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Week In Review

Get VDH’s “Week In Review” (Issue 24) It has become grim in the last few weeks in the news as you will hear and read below–and probably already know. Please excuse the hiatus in the newsletter distribution. We had and have much going on with the website. But things are smoothing out. This newsletter won’t allow

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Victor Davis Hanson Show

The Culturalist: The Praetorian Question

Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson talk about the politicization of the military in light of the Afghan debacle and the historical precedents — which, perhaps not so oddly, are those of totalitarian governments. Share This

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VDH UltraAngry Reader 09-02-2021

From An Angry Reader: Subject: Tribune Editorial Mr. Hanson: You no doubt consider yourself to be an objective journalist, but I suggest that you are little more than a shill for Donald Trump and his sycophants. Your so-called editorial, “There’s a problem in the upper reaches of our military,” is blatantly one-sided; so much so,

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VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Some Mythologies of World War II: Part One:

Did Germany Win the World Wars Before It Started a New One? “World War II,” or the Anglicized “Second World War,” began formally on September 1, 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. It ended officially with the surrender of the Japanese on September 2, 1945 on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo

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Is Our Military Woke, Broke or Both?

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The fall of Kabul is not the end, as Joe Biden seems to think, of the Afghanistan nightmare. It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies

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The Traditionalist: The Therapeutic Screw-Up

Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Listen in as VDH and Jack Fowler discuss Afghanistan and coming to terms with the worst military defeat in recent history. What should top military brass do and what will the Taliban do? Share This

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VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part Four

An Afghanistan Postscript There are real foreign policy consequences for a society adrift from its origins and foundational principles of citizenship. So, it was only a matter of time until the US had a rendezvous with tragedy abroad given the unhinged assumptions it was operating upon at home. I list a few symptoms, in no

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