Victor Davis Hanson Firing Generals and Defense Board Members The media went crazy when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., and now has fired members of the Defense Policy Board. I have no idea whether these removals were entirely justified, arbitrary, controversial, unnecessary, or long […]
Victor Davis Hanson The Stock Market Entitlement Complex On Friday, April 24, the stock market closed about 40,000 on the Dow Jones, or where it was variously just recently between May and August 2024. Yet we still hear from the investor class (10 percent of the nation’s own 93 percent of stock market capitalization) cries
Victor Davis Hanson Ultra Subcriber Consider the massive increase in federal spending in the 21st century, which some may call the greatest “stimulus” package in history. Did printing and pouring all that money into huge federal programs and entitlements spur economic growth—albeit in a suicidal and unsustainable fashion that has now caught up to us?
Victor Davis Hanson Is China already unbeatable? In just 40 years, China has created the second-largest economy in the world. Its military is the second(?) strongest military in the world. It is producing ships, military and mercantile, at a rate 230 times greater per year than America, which has all but destroyed what was once
Victor Davis Hanson Much of Trump’s widely diverse foreign and domestic initiatives have something to do with China, which he sees not just as America’s chief rival but as bent on world domination at our (deadly) expense. Consider the following: China is behind the fentanyl crisis, sending the raw product to the Mexican cartels for
Six, side with 40 percent of Americans who demand support for Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” with a blank check to the Zelenskyy government. Damn any who propose a ceasefire as Putin puppets. Instead, try to bleed out Russia to the last useful Ukrainian. Oppose any ceasefire as “unworkable,” “impossible,” or “naïve.” Never
Victor Davis Hanson After two months of hysterics, street theater, and virtue-signaling moralizing we can finally detect the Democrats’ counter-agenda. It really exists and seems based on ten simple concepts. One, cherry-pick federal Obama- and Biden-appointed judges to stop all of Trump’s initiatives in the courts. The merits are unimportant. The point is to delay,
Victor Davis Hanson Finally, I would discuss options for the various excellent students, most of them either Hispanic, Asian, black, or poor white. Some wished to teach, and we sought to enhance their careers by placing them in charter, prep, and parochial schools for the most part. For those who wished to be lawyers or
Victor Davis Hanson The evil of the diversity/equity/inclusion industry—costing the U.S. more than $1 trillion in its last, most radical four years of implementation—was not its fraud alone. We expected fakers like Ibram X. Kendi—born Ibram Henry Rogers to middle-to-upper-middle-class Jamaican immigrant professionals—to be lavished with millions of leftwing guilt money, spend through it without
Mexico. Part Two Trump has four, far bigger, gripes with Mexico. They are more compelling than his Canadian squabbles. One, suddenly Mexico’s trade surpluses are an astounding $170 billion or more. Indeed, it grows second only to China’s! And it is predicated on assembling Chinese materials into finished goods that can thus brazenly escape tariff