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Militaries must return to the ancient confidence that it is better to kill more of the aggressors’ population than to have lost some of its own.

Victor Davis Hanson // Mosaic This is a response to What’s Wrong with the Postmodern Military?, originally published in Mosaic in January 2025 Ran Baratz’s sharp critique of Israeli retaliatory action following October 7, coupled with incisive and constructive correctives, is a shared worry outside of Israel. Why, he asks, was the IDF surprised by the attack, why was […]

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Joe Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy “Achievements”

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America’s stature abroad. In his now accustomed weird mix of whispering and fiery shouting, Biden apparently felt he had to lie or mislead about almost every one of his “achievements.”

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REPOST: Even California Cannot Defy Nature Forever (Nov 21, 2018)

Victor Davis Hanson // City Journal REPOST: Originally published on Nov 21, 2018 California has been clouded under a blanket of smoke for weeks. Stanford University, where I work, sent students and faculty home early for Thanksgiving. The campus is more than 200 miles southwest of the 150,000-acre Camp Fire that just incinerated the Sierra Nevada

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REPOST: California’s Water Wars (Summer 2011)

Victor Davis Hanson // City Journal REPOST: Originally published in Summer 2011 California’s water wars aren’t about scarcity. Even with 37 million people and the nation’s most irrigation-intensive agriculture, the state usually has enough water for both people and crops, thanks to the brilliant hydrological engineering of past generations of Californians. But now there is

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America and Europe Can Hang Together—Or Hang Separately

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Consider these European and American binaries. On December 20, 2024, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in Magdeburg, Germany. He killed 6 pedestrians and injured 299 others. Eleven days later, on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, Louisiana, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar smashed his pickup

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Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Over the decade of Donald Trump’s political career, the left—as exemplified by Democratic politicos, the media, academics, the Washington military hierarchy, and the permeant bureaucratic state—illustrated a level of furor, venom, and near madness unprecedented in modern American history. Yet stranger still about such visceral, indeed lunatic hatred, despite Trump’s

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VDH on Education

Listen to VDH discuss how universities need to be reformed to serve the interests of the students, parents and our country. Click either the title or “Continue Reading…” to get to the video. Share This

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