Victor Davis Hanson I wrote The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation out of curiosity as to why on rare conditions wars don’t just end in the capitulation of the defeated, the occupation or annexation of its homelands, or the victors’ demands to pay reparations or fines.* Rather, they sometimes cease only with […]
From an Angry Reader: First of all, I want to say that I am neither a Democrat, nor am I am Republican. I don’t follow party lines when voting. I consider the character, education, and experience of each candidate before casting my vote. Secondly, I do want to say that I am astounded to hear
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Dear professor Hanson, As at first a curious listener to your podcast trying to understand an academic pro-Trump perspective, over the years you have convinced me with your empirical ontology and deep historic and classical knowledge. Many of your arguments against left wing ideology have struck deep, being raised by baby-ber’s in the organic/antroposophic mindset
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Professor Hanson, I am a regular listener to your podcast. I really enjoy your opinion on things and your down to earth character. Although, I am not anyone special or someone with a large following on any platform but, I believe you would be open to a discussion regarding Joe Biden’s mental health. I am not referring to his signs
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Victor Davis Hanson The people yearn for laws to regain their potency. They are sickened by statutes on the books that vaporize upon needed enforcement. They are tired of excuses and inaction. We feel the chaos everywhere from the trivial to the existential. How many times has Joe Biden threatened the Houthis? Is the Red
Victor Davis Hanson In short, if Alvin Bragg or Letitia James or Fani Willis were to forsake lawfare and the publicity it earns, and instead treat the criminals in their big city with steep bail, speedy trials, and stiff sentences upon conviction, we know calm would return to urban America. We know that truth because such a renaissance occurred
Victor Davis Hanson America is facing a number of existential crises—an open border, 30 million illegal immigrants, $36 trillion in debt, borrowing at the rate of $1 billion every 100 days, a suicidal war on gas, oil, and coal production, a recrudescence of premodern racial and ethnic tribalism, the destruction of deterrence abroad, blue state
Victor Davis Hanson A third component of the street and campus madness is the destruction of all deterrence abroad and at home by the Biden administration. The Middle East has concluded that the U.S. is in escalating decline. Biden is seen as decrepit and terrified of losing power and thus will do anything to prevent, (1) Middle-East tensions that will disrupt
The epidemic of Diversity/Equity/Inclusion ideology fuels much of the current violence on campus and in the street, and for two reasons. One, we are now in our third year of reparatory admissions. That is, the SAT/ACT required admission exams have been absent on elite campuses for two or even three years. Racial quotas have severely
Victor Davis Hanson After seven months of pro-Hamas chaos, a good question arises over what exactly the anti-Semitic demonstrators won’t do? Crash Easter services at St. Patrick’s Cathedral? Interrupt Christmas celebrations? Deface the White House wall, the Lincoln Memorial, and veterans’ cemeteries? Shut down commuter traffic on freeways and block cars on key bridges such