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VDH UltraAmerica at War. Successes and Failures. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Innovation It is no accident that the big-ticket, new weapons systems in World War II were American-made, or ironclads designed from the hull up with powerful guns, like the Monitor and its two state-of-the-art 11-inch Dahlgren turret guns, first appeared in the U.S. That is not to say friends and foes did […]

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VDH UltraAmerica at War. Successes and Failures. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson In reviewing America’s long wartime record, what does the United States do well, and what not—and what can we learn from both successes and failures? Production and Mobilization If America is often lax in maintaining deterrence during peace—cf. the disarmed era between 1870–1914 or 1920–1940—it is phenomenal at the 11th hour in

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VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Seven

Victor Davis Hanson Soon the affluent woke went even further in their hubris. More statues were toppled, more names changed, more dangerous laws passed. Somehow in the mass madness of iconoclasm even the statues of Cervantes and Frederick Douglas were to be desecrated, along with monuments along Washington’s National Mall. The common denominator apparently was

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VDH UltraWoke Swapping

Victor Davis Hanson Imagine this counterfactual—what if a President Donald Trump had released Viktor Bout from a U.S. prison? He is the convicted, notorious international arms dealer, who had supplied sophisticated weapons to help kill Americans abroad. And further imagine he gave up Bout in exchange for just one white, male, conservative athlete, known for

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VDH UltraLet the People Decide!

Victor Davis Hanson After the midterms, Republican blame-gaming reached a crescendo. And it was fueled by two realities: one, Ron DeSantis had a spectacular night (and two years ago had delivered Florida for Trump in 2020), and two, Donald Trump, in circular fashion and often vulgarly, attacked almost everyone, from his wife Melania and Dr.

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VDH UltraHow the Projectionist Game is Played. Part Four—“Insurrectionist!”

Victor Davis Hanson There is no need to review in detail the January 6th buffoonish riot in the Capitol. Instead concentrate on the subsequent effort of the Left to construct it into an “armed insurrection” and “conspiracy” to overthrow the government—as a way of demonizing conservatives as violent traitors and deflecting the violence of summer

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