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
7. This part of the world is not unlike the convoluted history of the former Yugoslavia. Crimea itself had been part of the Ottoman Empire but was annexed to Russia in 1783 by Catherine the Great. It remained Soviet until the USSR’s breakup in 1991 (Note that the Russians lost over 500,000 casualties vainly trying to save Crimea from the Nazis in
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4. Putin crossed national boundaries (Georgia/Ossetia; Donbas; Crimea; the Kyiv area) in three of the last four American administrations (Bush, Obama, Biden), but not during the Trump administration. Most likely, Putin could not predict what Trump might do in response and so he was deterred. Thus, keep in mind that the leftwing claim that it is on the van of pro-Ukrainian support is contradicted by
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From an Angry Reader: Dr. Hanson: I have been such a big fan of yours for years. But I am so, so disappointed you suggested Ukraine should give up land and whatever else to “negotiate” an end to the war with Russia; essentially pay Russia for the horror it has brought to Ukraine. Russia deliberately
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From an Angry Reader: Norman Schwarzkopf: “I never want to be in a fair fight” … nothing wrong with preponderance of power — Proportional response is stupid and harmful. BUT do not call the Gaza incursion as revenge … it is not. it is to teach that the cost of waging violence against Israel will not be worth the expense. J Morgenstern Ann Arbor,
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