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From An Angry Reader: Dear Mr. Hanson, I just finished your article about Trump’s tweets and it has moved me to ask a question. I was wondering if quite possibly, you’ve lost your mind? You write as if his tweets are harmless and of no consequence when they have caused the North Korean situation to …

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Is Trump an Island?

by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review   If Trump would let his deeds speak for themselves, he would quiet his enemies far more than he does with Twitter broadsides. No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . . And …

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From An Angry Reader: Victor David Hanson, you’d sweep the table. Your post-tweet Presidency column entry tops all possible contenders in its unique blend of so-bad-its-good upending suspension of logic and unearned laudatory excess that the academy is bereft of adequate means of expression to honor its achievements.  Perhaps its heaps and heaps of praises …

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The War of Wars Analyzed to the Third Decimal Place

Santa’s Book Bag By Larry Thornberry // The American Spectator A magnificent contribution from Victor Davis Hanson. The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won By Victor Davis Hanson (Basic Books, 652 pages, $40) Yes, Virginia, after thousands of books, lectures, debates, veteran memoirs, and documentaries, there is still something …

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Disruptive Politics in the Trump Era: Yuval Levin or Victor Davis Hanson?

By John Fonte| December 15, 2017 American Greatness The crucial question for the American Right today, as it has been for at least 60 years, is: What is the nature of its confrontation with modern liberalism? Is it a policy argument over how to achieve the common goals of liberal democracy? Are we working to …

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Why Trump Should Consider a Post-Twitter Presidency

by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review   By now, the president’s record has transcended his social-media idiosyncrasies.   Almost every supposedly informed prediction about President Donald Trump’s compulsive Twitter addiction has so far proved wrong.   He did not tweet his way out of the Republican nomination. Spontaneous social-media messaging did not lose Trump the …

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One Mueller-Investigation Coincidence Too Many

by Victor Davis Hanson//National Review   Stacking the deck with anti-Trump staffers is proving to be a really bad idea.   Special prosecutors, investigators, and counsels are usually a bad idea. They are admissions that constitutionally mandated institutions don’t work — and can be rescued only by supposed superhuman moralists, who are without the innate …

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Axis powers miscalculated after early advantages in World War II, Stanford scholar says

  Axis powers miscalculated after early advantages in World War II, Stanford scholar says By 1942, the Axis powers seemed invincible. But the course of the war soon changed in ways that offer lessons for the U.S. and its allies in today’s world, said Victor Davis Hanson, a Hoover Institution senior fellow. By Clifton B. …

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Uncommon Knowledge Part 2: The Second World Wars with Victor Davis Hanson

This video was originally published by the Hoover Institution. Click here to learn more about this episode. Could the Axis powers have won? What are the counterfactuals for World War II?  Find out in part two of this episode as Victor Davis Hanson joins Peter Robinson to discuss his latest book, The Second World Wars. Victor Davis …

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Interview with VDH on Area 45: Remembering Pearl Harbor

Seventy-six years ago, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America went to war. Listen to the latest episode of the podcast, Area 45, as Victor Davis Hanson discusses the 76th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the lessons learned from that conflict’s successes and failures and how they apply today. Listen to the podcast episode …

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