Victor Davis Hanson The Western world—Europe, many of the former British Commonwealth nations, the U.S., and Westernized allies in Asia—is still the envy of the world. Its aggregate economies make up more than half the world’s GDP. Nevertheless, while its population is only 14 percent of the world total, the top fifty countries on the […]
Victor Davis Hanson Susan Rice, one of the national security advisors under Barack Obama, in a recent interview warns universities, corporations, and elites of all types that anyone who has cooperated with Trump’s executive orders (largely on matters of following the Supreme Court’s anti-affirmative action rulings and Trump’s ban on DEI programs?) would face payback
Victor Davis Hanson Despite Bernie Sanders’ rants, four out of ten American households pay no income tax. And the bottom fifty percent in income, of those who do pay income tax, account for less than 3% of all federal income tax revenue. The top 50 percent of households pay 97% of all federal taxes. About
Victor Davis Hanson Fourth, China’s propaganda is also brilliant. It plugs right into woke/DEI ideology. As soon as it was clear, and it was quite soon, that the Covid-19 virus did not “leap” from some sick pangolin or bat far distant from the Wuhan Lab, and when it was uncovered that Dr. Fauci and Peter
Victor Davis Hanson Contrast the Russian Cold War with our current rivalry with a 1.4-billion-person China. Other than its size and strange combination of state-run/crony capitalism with Maoist totalitarianism, ostensibly, China should be no more difficult a rival than was the Soviet Union. Like Russia, it was a one-time ally of the U.S. in World
Victor Davis Hanson How did the U.S. win the 45-year-old Cold War with the former Soviet Union? And what can we learn from that victory in our current growing Cold War with communist China? 1) While often clumsy and counterproductive, the U.S. was mostly able to portray the Soviets not as kind-hearted socialists, but cruel,
Victor Davis Hanson No one has been more concerned than I about the current state of America—enormous debt, unfunded liabilities, DEI and tribal chauvinism, blue-state/red-state growing antitheses, the new right anti-Semitism coupled with the predictable old left anti-Semitism, the rise of an imperial China, etc. But there is much to be thankful for and excited
Victor Davis Hanson The big bike crack-up came years later. In fairness, I would again say it was my fault and preventable. My bike had an invisible hairline crack on the carbon fork from a prior fall years earlier. As I was riding, the top of my tire kept rubbing the side of the fork.
Victor Davis Hanson By midnight, the fever had climbed higher, and there was minimal choice. The Libyan minders arrived, worried that I had food poisoning or some other bad experience that might sour our once-happy plans for national conciliation. After a brief consultation, they notified the proper port authorities. I was allowed off the boat,
Victor Davis Hanson By 1996, I had settled down to an academic life, if teaching four and five courses a semester seemed a normal scholarly career. I puttered rather than worked with my siblings on the farm and turned my attention to my great-great-grandmother’s house that was falling apart. We had no money, but I