Historian’s Corner

Victor Davis Hanson The U.S. is broke. It owes over $35 trillion, mostly to American and Chinese bond and T-bill holders. The interest alone costs nearly $1 trillion, larger than the annual defense budget. The aggregate debt is now 123 percent of the annual GDP. Each American resident owes some bondholder about $103,000. How can […]

Victor Davis Hanson Trump’s greatest challenge is to restore deterrence—blown up by Biden after Kabul, the Chinese balloon fiasco, the Gazan and Ukrainian wars, and his periodic Corn-Pop-like empty threats (i.e., “Don’t!”) when enemies successfully game Biden. Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Iran are existential enemies of the U.S. and the West in general. They

Victor Davis Hanson Next, who of the long-residing illegal aliens would be eligible for legal-resident status, and from there choose or not choose to apply on their own for U.S. citizenship? Most would agree that this third category should include spouses of U.S. citizens; those with lengthy U.S. residence from childhood; and others with lengthy

Victor Davis Hanson One would expect Trump first to finish the wall as soon as possible, even if that entailed extending it to the Gulf and through difficult terrain, fixing weak spots in the existing wall, and fighting nonstop lawsuits, internal administrative-state obstructions, and mass leftwing hysteria. Logically, he would simultaneously stop catch-and-release and force

Victor Davis Hanson I once stayed in an old house on one professorial stint. The basement had a sewage leak. No one knew of it, given it had been locked up for the summer. When I arrived, the house was full of mold, or so I thought, despite living in a desert climate with no

Victor Davis Hanson With Covid, you stare at the ceiling, with ice on your feverous head, and begin trying to account for all your life’s excesses and recklessness that supposedly inevitably led to right now being sick. Quite crazy, especially when you are the villain of your feverish remembrances. Would there not have been ways

Victor Davis Hanson Seven months later, on the eve of my 2022 tour to Israel, in early May, I got Covid 2.0, again after a large public event. (On book tours and at formal speaking dinners, one is often asked to do an early meet-and-greet/book signing, then followed by formal photo-ops with guests, then VIP

Victor Davis Hanson I just returned from leading 160 travelers on a tour to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The tour went quite well. The participants were especially enthusiastic, good sports, extremely knowledgeable, and above all, happy people. We had three great Hillsdale professors providing morning lectures (Professors Connor, Calvert, and

Victor Davis Hanson Much of the screaming about tyranny, Trump fascism, internment camps, etc., is also ego-driven. AOC in her selfies believes that she must be Trump’s numero uno target (No one cares about her psychodramas). The barking Michael Cohen sounds like a disaffected Putin thug warning about Trump pushing people off buildings. Rachel Maddow,

Victor Davis Hanson Biden’s favorability is now consistently below 40 percent. His brain and body freezes are routine. Biden’s word salad and fantasy spins do not even merit the news. His lectures about the “convicted felon” Trump are over, along with his rants about the evil Second Amendment—given Hunter’s felony gun convictions. If Hunter is