Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Mexico gets a massive cash influx in remittances, American corporations get cheap labor, Democrats get voters . . .Mexico in just a few days could elect one of its more anti-American figures in recent memory, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Obrador has often advanced the idea that a strangely aggrieved […]
Mexico — What Went Wrong? Read More »
In the third episode of Close Encounters, Victor Davis Hanson and Ben Weingarten discuss the decline of the American academy, threats to Western civilization from within and without, ‘The Resistance’ and its assault on the Trump presidency, and a great deal more. Watch the video here or via this link. Read the full transcript here.
Victor Davis Hanson on The Fate of the West, Trump, and The Resistance Read More »
From An Angry Reader: What is wrong with you? You see what Trump is doing over 3000 lies and yet you still can condemn Hillary! ————————————————————————————— Dear Angry Reader Rhonda Welsch, First, congratulations. You get only a 1 out of 10 on the Angry Reader Scale (for silly exaggeration [e.g. “ over 3000 lies”; but
06-25-18 Angry Reader Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Amonth from now there will be a new manufactured news story that Donald Trump is savage, represents an existential danger, or is unhinged. We will hear of another Trump official cornered and driven out from a liberal-owned Beltway or New York City restaurant. An unhinged Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)
Why This Immigration Psychodrama Will Also Pass Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution Hillary Clinton could have spared the country hours of wasted investigations, debates, and near civil war had she just made three easy ethical and logical choices. One: Had she, as Secretary of State, used a standard Department of State email server for her official correspondence, there would have been no
Hillary’s Hamartia Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Obama becomes an unnamed ‘government official,’ ‘investigation’ becomes a ‘matter,’ and ‘illegal’ becomes ‘improper.’ There are lots of strange things throughout Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz’s massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. One of the weirdest is the extent to which the FBI went to make
Scandals Sanitized with Linguistic Trickery Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Much has been written — some of it either inaccurate or designed to obfuscate the issue ahead of the midterms for political purposes — about the border fiasco and the unfortunate separation of children from parents. Rich Lowry’s brief analysis is the most insightful. The media outrage usually does not include
Border Politics and the Use and Abuse of History Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness After World War II, only the United States possessed the capital, the military, freedom, and the international good will to arrest the spread of global Stalinism. To save the fragile postwar West, America was soon willing to rebuild and rearm war-torn former democracies. Over seven decades, it intervened in
The Dream and the Nightmare of Globalization Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The investigators assumed their new boss would reward them for going to extremes to help her. Review the Clinton email scandal, the Steele dossier, the insertion of at least one FBI informant into the Trump campaign, the misleading of the FISA court by FBI and DOJ officials intent on
‘Future Pres’ Hillary — the Font of all the Scandals Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The professionally written and admirably researched IG report is in some sense a hall of mirrors, with all sorts of reflections that are contorted and warped, and into which all parties claim to see reality. Often the euphemistic conclusions are not supported by the data produced. The only constant
The IG Hall of Mirrors Read More »