VDH UltraWill Our Commissariat Destroy Us Before We Destroy It? Part One

Victor Davis Hanson In October 1942, after losing over 7 million Soviet soldiers in some of the largest encirclements in history at Kiev and Bryansk, Joseph Stalin finally suspended the active role of his once pet commissars, zealots, and snitches. Previously the Kremlin had applied ideological litmus tests to all military promotions, rewards, punishments, and […]

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What Happened to Stanford?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Stanford was once one of the world’s great universities. It birthed Silicon Valley in its prime. And along with its nearby twin and rival, UC Berkeley, its brilliant researchers, and teachers helped fuel the mid-20th-century California miracle. That was then. But like the descent of California, now something has gone

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VDH UltraThe Art of the Big Lie(s). Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson 5. The Ukrainian Impeachment call. Donald Trump did not stop approved shipments of offensive weapons to Ukraine in exchange for investigating the Bidens. He simply delayed arms shipments that the Obama-Biden administration had strictly prohibited. Indeed, he ultimately sent them. Trump had good reason to be suspicious of the Ukrainian government given

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Are We the Byzantines?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome. Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies,

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VDH UltraThe Art of the Big Lie(s). Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson 3. The Pangolin/Bat Myth Almost immediately after the arrival of the coronavirus, the public, some brave scientists, and intelligence officers were convinced that the engineered virus escaped the Wuhan lab because: 1) The Chinese suppressed most information about the lab’s work on the virus. 2) There were virulent attacks on those who

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VDH UltraThe Art of the Big Lie(s). Part One

  The Left has canonized a number of outright untruths. There are three characteristics of their mendacity. One, the lies are either issued by leftwing government officials or adopted from lying universities, social media, or the corporate world. Two, the lies involve the most vital aspects of American society—its foreign policy and national security, its

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