Víctor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense A final area of criticism is the lie that Hegseth is an intolerant Christian zealot or racist white supremacist. No one who has worked for him has lodged such complaints; they come instead from a soldier or two who did not like his tattoos. Nor did those who […]
Victor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense Hegseth is/was also the target of sexual harassment/assault accusations first launched seven years ago. But here too there are critical details left out by the Left. Sexual crime investigators of the Monterey Police Department in ultra-liberal California found no such assault, and after exhaustive investigations never charged Hegseth
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness President-elect Donald Trump recently had a “talk” with newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum about the millions who have crossed through Mexico to enter the U.S. illegally. Afterwards, Trump reported that their conversation went well, and supposedly both had agreed to secure the U.S. border. But given long-standing, de facto
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Victor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense 2. Hegseth would likely take a hard look at the 1-4 star general/admiral class and conclude: a) there are in general too many generals and admirals; b) there are far too many incompetent and politicized generals and admirals who have a demonstrable record of failure, especially during the
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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
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
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