Victor Davis Hanson Americans have viewed a lot of recent demonstrations against ICE turn violent. They have watched leftists disrupt commemorations for the late Charlie Kirk, and harass Turning Point, USA information tables on campuses. Occasionally leftists find where Trump officials are walking, eating, or speaking and try to urge followers to “get in their […]
Victor Davis Hanson answers listeners questions: Was there a conspiracy behind the death of General George Patton? If the Dunkirk evacuation had failed, would Britain have capitulated to Germany? What if USAF and RAF focused on Ploesti, would Germany have run out of gas and lost the war sooner than they did? Share This
Victor Davis Hanson Why do foreign visitors so often do things in their host country that they would never dare to do at home? Why would anyone wave the flag of the hated country they fled and burn the flag of the nation they so sorely covet? If you are proud of your tribe, your
Victor Davis Hanson The grotesque assassination of Charlie Kirk by a pro-Antifa zealot Tyler Robinson, following the macabre throat slitting of 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska by a freed 14-felon Decarlos Brown, proved the proverbial straws that broke the national camel’s back. The status quo is over. Kaput. And what follows will not be the
Description: Victor Davis Hanson analyzes the responses and excuses of the Left for celebration of assassination. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson After Domitian, some forty or more of the successive emperors were not Italian born. Most came from the Balkans or North Africa. The Western Empire was slowly eclipsed by the wealth of eastern provinces. But everywhere too much money predominated in the Neronian Age. Imported woods, gilt, and marble were the preferred
Victor Davis Hanson In the world of Petronius, cynicism rules. No one is who he professes to be—not bankrupt poets and pretentious intellectuals, not virtuous widows, not innocent youth. All are Epstein schemers of a sort of like our internet influencers and nobodies who become somebodies with vast audiences in the millions. Petronius’s cosmos (like
Victor Davis Hanson discusses how the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska is not an isolated case, but part of a complex, disturbing trend ignored by the media and shunned by politicians. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson The century between AD 96–180 is perhaps analogous to our American era of 1890 to 1990 (from the Gilded Age through World War I, World War II, and the Cold War), which saw a century in which America de facto ruled the world, defeated its enemies, and achieved an unimaginable level of
Victor Davis Hanson The formal end of the Roman Republic in 27 BC came when the Roman Senate acclaimed the 37-year-old final survivor and winner Octavian as “Augustus.” He alone had won out after 22 years of deadly civil war (from the 49 BC crossing of the Rubicon by Julius Caesar to the final defeat