Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Have We Learned Anything from Ukraine? We know why Putin invaded Ukraine: he wants to restore the borders of the old Soviet Union and with them the power and glory of a lost empire that had 100 million more people and nearly 30 percent more of the territory than Russia […]
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Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner 1. We Have No Border An open border is destroying the United States. Just under two million illegal aliens crossed into the United States from the most impoverished areas in the world. They arrive in large part without English, capital, skills, high-school diplomas, background checks, vaccinations, or COVID-tests. They arrived
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Victor Davis HansonHistorian’s Corner Gas and Oil Think back 13 months ago. Gas and diesel fuel were about half the price they are now. America was de facto energy independent, which was psychologically reassuring to the American public. Domestically produced fuels invigorated the economy. Commuters saved collectively billions of dollars in annual fuel costs. There
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Victor Davis Hanson Deterrence Deterrence is the classical effort to scare somebody off from attacking you, or your interests—without a major conflict. It is hard to obtain and predicated on being predictable in reacting to aggression, while remaining unpredictable in the level of violence employed. Deterrence can be lost by ennui and becoming transparently passive,
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Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner The 1619 idea was designed to provoke, not instruct, and, of course, make Ms. Jones “controversial.” 1619 would have vanished with easy refutation—except the New York Times sponsored the ruse. And the rest is history. The powers of relativism were invoked (e.g., “who is to say that one date is
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Victor Davis Hanson Education is a zero-sum game. Every decision to read one book entails not reading another. For every language mastered, yet another is shorted. What to study is as important as studying anything at all. Ars longa, vita brevis. Woke is many things—Marxist, nihilist, cruel, incoherent, and especially careerist and grifting. But we
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Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner IV. The Republican and Democratic Splits There are quasi-religious and bitter schisms in both parties. On the Right, national and cultural populists vie with shrinking establishment, libertarian, and pre-2016 Republicans; on the Left, radical Jacobins and Socialists versus the Manchinian remnants of the old Democratic Party. But the divisions—ignore the media
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Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner III. An Agenda Can the Republicans move beyond just completing the original, necessary Trump agenda on closing the border, legal-only immigration, deterrence against China, energy production, and immunity from optional military engagements in the Middle East, and industrial and manufacturing resurgence in the rust belt, and conservative judicial appointments? What would
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Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner I. The Midterm Hype We can imagine the hit commercials. On the Left, the Democrats will not wish to highlight their two-year record on the economy, Afghanistan, energy, the border, critical race theory, or almost anything. So? No surprise, it will be nonstop, 24-7, 360-degrees, forever and always January 6!
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Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Next, we come to NATO Remember that NATO supposedly hates Trump because in art-of-the-deal bombastic style, he screamed, he yelled, he cajoled—and he got NATO to spend an extra $100 billion on its defense with more commitments to follow. Ukraine is geographically near several NATO members. It is far distant