Historian’s Corner

Victor Davis Hanson Is China already unbeatable? In just 40 years, China has created the second-largest economy in the world. Its military is the second(?) strongest military in the world. It is producing ships, military and mercantile, at a rate 230 times greater per year than America, which has all but destroyed what was once […]

Victor Davis Hanson Much of Trump’s widely diverse foreign and domestic initiatives have something to do with China, which he sees not just as America’s chief rival but as bent on world domination at our (deadly) expense. Consider the following: China is behind the fentanyl crisis, sending the raw product to the Mexican cartels for

Six, side with 40 percent of Americans who demand support for Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” with a blank check to the Zelenskyy government. Damn any who propose a ceasefire as Putin puppets. Instead, try to bleed out Russia to the last useful Ukrainian. Oppose any ceasefire as “unworkable,” “impossible,” or “naïve.” Never

Victor Davis Hanson After two months of hysterics, street theater, and virtue-signaling moralizing we can finally detect the Democrats’ counter-agenda. It really exists and seems based on ten simple concepts. One, cherry-pick federal Obama- and Biden-appointed judges to stop all of Trump’s initiatives in the courts. The merits are unimportant. The point is to delay,

Victor Davis Hanson Finally, I would discuss options for the various excellent students, most of them either Hispanic, Asian, black, or poor white. Some wished to teach, and we sought to enhance their careers by placing them in charter, prep, and parochial schools for the most part. For those who wished to be lawyers or

Victor Davis Hanson The evil of the diversity/equity/inclusion industry—costing the U.S. more than $1 trillion in its last, most radical four years of implementation—was not its fraud alone. We expected fakers like Ibram X. Kendi—born Ibram Henry Rogers to middle-to-upper-middle-class Jamaican immigrant professionals—to be lavished with millions of leftwing guilt money, spend through it without

Mexico. Part Two Trump has four, far bigger, gripes with Mexico. They are more compelling than his Canadian squabbles. One, suddenly Mexico’s trade surpluses are an astounding $170 billion or more. Indeed, it grows second only to China’s! And it is predicated on assembling Chinese materials into finished goods that can thus brazenly escape tariff

Victor Davis Hanson Canada. Part One Trump has been waging a running verbal battle with Canada. And it is based on four of his own pet peeves. One, he despises Canadian Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who in the past has openly sided with Trump’s political opponents in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

Victor Davis Hanson After the recent dustup with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the White House, Volodymyr Zelenskyy should have taken a lesson from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Like Ukraine, Israel too is similarly in an existential war—in fact against four adversaries. And likewise, it is dependent on U.S. financial and military aid.

3) Pentagon. The military was declared not to be chronically short by 30-50,000 recruits each year—simply by readjusting the required manpower levels downward. Do we remember the monthly sound-off of a retired admiral or general (Mark Milley was the latest example) screaming that Trump was a “fascist,” and during the Trump presidency, that he was