Historian’s Corner

Victor Davis Hanson Trump/Vance have less than 12 weeks to crack the Harris/Walz/DNC/media/donor/backroom cabal and expose the Democratic ticket as the first Biden administration on steroids. Can it be done? Debates? Trump is again now negotiating for debates. He must avoid the 2020 first debate performance when his disruption gained sympathy for a bewildered Biden […]

Victor Davis Hanson Harris now says she will give one press conference before the conclusion of August. In other words, she admits that since the implosion of Biden and her immediate coronation, she has not spoken impromptu for more than a minute or two—the green zone, on-her-own maximum time her handlers have accorded her on

Victor Davis Hanson Israel is certainly in dire straits. The U.S. for the first time since the Carter administration is now unapologetically anti-Israel. It leverages military aid to Israel to coerce concessions to Hamas and destabilize the Netanyahu government. Washington itself is rudderless, with a debilitated and evaporating president, a puerile and now mute vice

Victor Davis Hanson 7. Given you have been critical of Donald Trump for addressing protesters on January 6 and have criticized as reckless his warning to them, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” you surely must have known that

Victor Davis Hanson 3. You say you will compare your record to Trump’s on the border anytime. Can you please then answer “yes” or “no” to the following questions: a) Did you support canceling the Trump border wall mid-construction when your administration took office? And if you refused to continue building the wall, do you

Victor Davis Hanson Already, the Harris election team has slipped a bit. It actually let Harris out unguarded for a few moments to offer off-the-cuff remarks on the release of the hostages and inflation. And the result was disastrous. True to form, she sounds childlike and offers only deer-in-the-headlights embarrassments. She literally cannot be allowed

Victor Davis Hanson Once race trumps merit, a public becomes Sovietized; that is, people descend into rank cynicism, distrust, and scorn. For example, the jaded public now believes that America’s daily systems failures must be due to some incompetency—prompted by hiring, promoting, and rewarding people on the basis of their race, gender, or sexual orientation

Victor Davis Hanson America has reverted to a pre-civilizational fixation on tribe and superficial appearance over character and expertise—and the result has been a disaster. But how do we even calibrate “diversity” or “people of color”? Why is a poorer Sicilian-American not diverse, but a richer Hispanic of lighter hue with a “Latino” last name

Victor Davis Hanson The implosion of the post-debate Biden incumbent candidacy marks one of the most unusual and duplicitous events in presidential history. Since 2019, most media and Democratic elites have known that Joe was both cognitively challenged and yet the only viable camouflage for what had become an out-of-touch, hard-left Democratic Party. In a

Victor Davis Hanson We still do not know whether most culpability for the failed security during the Trump attempted assassination was the fault of the Secret Service, the FBI, local law enforcement, or all three combined. Instead of clarity, we are witnessing mutual recrimination and absurd blame gaming. The takeaway from such utter incompetence was