From an Angry Reader: Mr. Hanson, You seem intent on defining progressives as people who loathe Donald Trump, as clearly defined group who have a unified strategy of driving him out of office. The tactic of defining—and dismissing—all progressives with a broad brush is a convenient way to give Trump supporters a clearly defined […]
From an Angry Reader: Dr. Hanson, You will not like what I am about to say. It’s a good thing we’re 3,000 miles apart. Because if I saw you on the street, I’d … A threat? You decide. Daniel Weir Washington, DC dweir3@icloud.com Reply from Victor Davis Hanson: Dear Second-time Angry Reader Daniel Weir, And
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review What has become of the prescient post-WWII dictum ‘Russians out, Americans in, Germans down’? The accomplished and insightful British general Hasting Ismay is remembered today largely because of his famous assessment of NATO, offered when he was the alliance’s first secretary general. The purpose of the new
From An Angry Reader: In your recent article you are off base, friend. Every day that passes proves Trump to be unfit in so many ways. I figure a Trump believer to be either embarrassingly uninformed or purely hypocritical, willing to push a conservative agenda regardless of flag bearer. No doubt you are the latter…
A reflection amidst the barbecues and fireworks and the paeans to patriotism. By Bruce Thornton // Front Page Mag Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The Fourth of July is not just another day off from work. Nor is it just the celebration of our country’s birth, the
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review Not only have progressives failed to take down the president, but they also haven’t offered an alternative agenda. The progressive strategy of investigating President Donald Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no substantial evidence of wrongdoing.
By Victor Davis Hanson National Review‘s The Corner: The one and only. Just when the media take-out of Trump has backfired and exposed an endemic absence of journalistic ethics and chronic malpractice, Trump goes on another crass and extraneous Twitter attack against the increasing irrelevant MSNBC morning hosts (who have in turn often unprofessionally attacked
By Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas According to Greek myth, the Athenian hero Theseus sailed to Crete to stop the tribute of seven Athenian men and seven women sent every nine years to the distant carnivorous Minotaur in his haunt within the labyrinth beneath the palace of Knossos on Crete. In various versions of the
From A Not So Angry Reader: Dr. Hanson: I am a frequent listener to the Classicist. After listening to the episode “A Cold Civil War?” I had a few questions. I do not intend this to be inflammatory, I simply do not want to make assumptions about your beliefs. First, do you believe that approximately three million
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review If they weren’t trying to destroy the president, Democrats would have to focus on an agenda most Americans don’t support. By 1968, voters had tired of the failed Great Society of Lyndon Johnson. Four year later, the 1972 Nixon reelection re-emphasized that a doubled-down McGovern liberalism was even less