Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this Friday news roundup: Israel-Lebanon cease-fire, Trump tariffs, the blue-state model, Hollywood leaving, Stanford censure, DEI dying, and Trump appointments. Share This
The Rising Tide: Blue State Blues and Trump’s New Wave Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility. Gifting to most universities has been
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In this Thanksgiving episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the International Criminal Court’s unwarranted arrest warrant for Netanyahu, coming troubles in Mexico, anti-Semitism in Europe, the case for Trump revisited, MSNBC addresses the cultural shift, the legacy of William F. Buckley, and things to appreciate on Thanksgiving. Share This
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Víctor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense What are the pros and cons of the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Defense Secretary (in the context of the accepted norms for DOD secretary nominees in the past)? Pros On the plus side, Hegseth is a combat veteran of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After
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Victor Davis Hanson So, what were the standards that Gaetz did not meet? Or rather were current critics prior critics when there was questionable conduct at the DOJ? Do we remember Obama’s AGs Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch? Eric Holder flagrantly described his supposedly autonomous relationship with President Obama obsequiously as Obama’s “wingman.” He refused
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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for the latest on illegal immigration and the Hispanic constituency, tone-deaf sanctuary-city policy in LA, how the election pulled the US back from revolutionary destruction, revolutionary justice and Daniel Penny, the Jaguar ad, the weakness of the case against Pete Hegseth, and Trump is the counter-revolutionary. Share
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Donald Trump will not be president for almost another two months. Yet Democrat politicians, both federal and local, vie to be the most strident in denouncing his plans to begin deporting millions of foreign nationals who, over the last four years, have entered the U.S. illegally. Trump pledges to focus initially only on the 400,000
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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson examines the battles fought over the Philippines in WWII, and, in the news, more Trump nominations, Alvin Bragg’s cases, and Jussie Smollett is let off by the Illinois Supreme Court. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson Matt Gaetz/Attorney General Matt Gaetz has been the most controversial of the Trump nominees so far. The odds were that he would not be confirmed—and he was not by default after withdrawing his nomination in anticipation of hostile confirmation questioning and attacks. Gaetz certainly is a MAGA loyalist, a former target of
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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the currently escalating Ukraine-Russia War, Laken Riley’s attacker sentenced and Trump’s immigration plans, the Left’s fiery response to Trump nominations Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard, and shaming the Congress to protect the DEI agenda. Share This
War in Russia, a Murderer in Prison, and Needed Change in D.C. Read More »