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What Are the Left’s Solutions for the Problems They Created?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Wall Street Journal has consistently criticized Trump’s economic policies, particularly his ongoing “trade war” with Canada, over the past several weeks. And certainly, the tensions are regrettable. Trump’s trolling of the insufferable Justin Trudeau, with talk of Canada becoming the “51st state,” perhaps only galvanized the Canadian left. It unfortunately may […]

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Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal—and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s

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Trump’s Democratic ‘Allies’

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Former Clinton strategist James Carville has reinvented himself at age 80 as a sage Democrat podcaster. His predictions—remember, a victorious Kamala Harris?—are usually wrong. He enjoys engaging in public duels with celebrities to gain online clicks and media appearances. Yet sometimes he appears judicious in his effort to return his

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Five Ukrainian Fables

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Fable One: Donald Trump Is Appeasing Russia? Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II deal? Who withdrew from an unfair missile deal with the Russians? Who cajoled and berated

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Who Really Politicized the Pentagon?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Is the era of rounding up government or academic “experts” to declare their support or opposition to ongoing controversies over? Public declarations by Anthony Fauci and his associates to follow their “expertise” or “science” did not work out well and persuaded few. Recall the 1,200 partisan healthcare “professionals” of June

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Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness To find an impossible peace between Ukraine and Russia we must understand the recent history of the war and the European and American roles in it. So, Americans should revisit some fundamental realities and questions from which to remember before going forward: Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine in 2022? Putin did start

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VDH UltraEurope’s New Reality and Ukrainian Peace Settlement

Ultra Subscribers: This is an ad-free audio version of the Victor Davis Hanson Podcast. Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for thoughts on Vance in Europe, Macron in trouble, laxity for illegals denied to citizens, riots in Sweden, Left technocracy, Democratic rallies, Trump works on peace in Ukraine, Jamie Dimon’s diatribe, Hegseth’s revolution,

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Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennan, and the European Ministers—Reveal It All

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the venom only further marginalizes the left. In its too-long 50th anniversary spectacle, Saturday Night Live offered a skit in which marquee actor Tom Hanks did

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