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VDH UltraAnother Drive Among the Ruins—Newsom’s California, 2025. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson I took a drive this week from rural Central California to the Stanford Campus, in a manner I have done for 50 years since my student days. In the over three-hour drive, I remembered what the state was like in 1975 compared to 2025. It was not a pretty contrast, despite the […]

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VDH UltraThe Crybaby Iran and Its Feet of Clay, Part One

Victor Davis Hanson For nearly half a century the West has feared the lunatic theocracy in Iran. Jimmy Carter helped create the phantasma of a dangerous, unpredictable, and venomous regime. But how did such an image become entrenched in the West? Carter was humiliated in 1979–80 by his continued refusal to warn the Iranian revolutionary

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VDH UltraThe Incoherence of the Mexican Flag and Mexico’s Foolish Rhetoric, Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Mexico seems clueless about the current asymmetries and the huge benefits it has been accruing at U.S. expense, as if these benefits are somehow its birthright. Currently, some $63 billion in remittances are sent to Mexico from mostly Mexican immigrants, the majority believed to be here illegally. And many of that cohort

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Newsom’s California is arguably the most unfree state in the union.

VDH UltraThe Incoherence of the Mexican Flag and Mexico’s Foolish Rhetoric, Part One

Victor Davis Hanson When riots broke out in Los Angeles after ICE tried to serve warrants on a variety of illegal aliens, most of whom were believed to be either criminals or engaged in criminal activity, mobs assumed that we were all back to the “summer of love” that exempted violence of 2020. But, of

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VDH UltraTheir California Dreams, Our Nightmares, Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson The coastal elites gave us sanctuary cities and a sanctuary state. They oppose deportations (remember the campaign videos of Kamala Harris chanting and demonstrating to stop federal deportations of illegal aliens from California). They virtue signal their liberality and then are shocked that a 13.3% income tax rate will still not bring

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VDH UltraTheir California Dreams, Our Nightmares, Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Consider the following four examples: 1) Massive solar and wind projects, while dismantling hydroelectric, nuclear, and natural gas generation, spiked electricity costs to over 30 cents a kilowatt. For the coastal elite, whose affluence means they can run their air conditioners as they please (and their ocean-side climate makes that optional in

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