Historian’s Corner

Victor Davis Hanson 7. Coups—the backroom nullification of voters. Over 14 million Democratic voters chose Joe Biden in 2024 to be the Democratic nominee. No other contender came close. Yet after a disastrous early debate on June 27, 2024 (unprecedented given that it preempted both the conventions and the nominations of the candidates), backroom Democratic […]

Victor Davis Hanson 4. Lawfare. Imagine coordinating five local and state indictments and civil suits against a presidential candidate and ex-president to bankrupt his candidacy and person, silence his campaign with gag orders, and seek to incarcerate him to prevent him from winning the 2024 election. Note that the Biden White House had been in

Victor Davis Hanson Does the current United States really allow the voice of the people to be heard in free and fair elections, with information from the government honestly and disinterestedly disseminated? Increasingly not. Did the Trump years, or, more specifically, Trump Derangement Syndrome, cause the paranoid Left to destroy democracy purportedly to save it?

So as far as the Holocaust and the millions slaughtered by Nazism‚ well, as Cooper seems to toss off, the chaos of death sometimes got a bit out of hand and beyond the ability of well-meaning Wehrmacht officers to cope with. And so, we the Allies were wrong even to try the architects of the

There was an ideological component of it. But then as time goes on, you read stories about, about Churchill going bankrupt and needing money, getting bailed out by people who shared his interests in terms of Zionism, but also his hostility, I think his hostility…. To put it this way, I think his hostility to

Victor Davis Hanson And I told him that. I think, and maybe I’m being a little hyperbolic, maybe, but I told him, maybe trying to provoke him a little bit, that I thought Churchill was the chief villain of the Second World War. Now, he didn’t kill the most people, he didn’t commit the most

And so, when you do something like that with, I mean, again, like a historical event, like World War Two, where, I mean, the one rule is that you shall not do that. You shall not look at this topic and try to understand how the Germans saw the world: like how the whole thing

Victor Davis Hanson When we read the latest and now widely read denunciations of Churchill as a terrorist, drunk, psychopath, or warmonger, or accusations that the Allies fought a war of terror against their Axis enemies, we naturally expect those indictments more often emanate from the Left. So, what then drives this new rightist revisionism

Victor Davis Hanson Recently, remarks by one Darryl Cooper on a widely viewed Tucker Carlson interview ranged over a great number of topics. (see transcript). Among them, he offered a series of statements about World War II that more or less exonerated the Axis powers, and by extension contextualized the mass death of Russian POWS,

Victor Davis Hanson The only way Harris–Walz will emerge from their fusion media Iron Dome is if they begin to trail four or so points in the polls. But since there may not be enough time in this bizarre, abbreviated campaign to allow them organically to melt down in their banality, the only way Trump