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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President Biden’s a Colossal Failure

From the Afghanistan crisis, the border disaster, his foreign policy fiasco, and inflation; does it seem like everything that Joe Biden touches turns to dross? Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Victor Davis Hanson, joins Dana to evaluate the Afghanistan disaster, and Hanson explains how everything Joe Biden has touched since becoming President has turned to dross.

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Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Joe Biden’s scripted or no-questions press conferences, and the clean-up afterward by Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Jen Psaki, have been some of the most misleading episodes in modern presidential history—mostly in what was not said rather than was exaggerated, warped, and misrepresented. Biden as Commander-in-Chief The more Joe

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VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson // Historian’s Corner All of these ad hoc challenges share a common symptom, the steady erosion of the chief tenets of citizenship. The diminution of the middle class, the porousness of our borders, and the dangerous idea that race is incidental not essential to who we are, occur almost organically. It is

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The Classicist: Let Us Have Done With You

Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Newsom’s recall, Larry Elder’s odds, the cultural revolution and the elite, and “Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation.” There is a short tribute to Donald Kagan who recently passed away at the end. Share This

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Matters Of Policy & Politics: America After The Trump Presidency

Donald Trump’s gone (from office) but not forgotten as many of the elements that contributed to his political ascent – immigration, overseas entanglements, cultural divide – are as potent as ever. Victor Davis Hanson, the Hoover Institution’s Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, discusses Trump’s presence in the political landscape and the prospects of “Trumpism”

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Does America Still Work

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness For nearly two years, Americans have engaged in a great woke experiment of cannibalizing themselves. American civilization has invested massive labor, capital, and time in an effort constantly to flagellate itself for not being perfect. Yet neither America’s resilience nor its resources are infinite. We are now beginning to

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VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson // Historian’s Corner Yet rarely do we connect America’s malaise, its divisions, and its obsessions with national decline, to a loss of citizenship—the original glue that once held together the American experiment. Perhaps we assume that a “citizen” is a natural concept that arose organically with the ascent of civilization itself. It

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