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The Legacies of Robert Mueller’s Investigations

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Some 450 days ago we were treated to melodramatic announcements from the media about the start-up of Robert Mueller’s “dream” and “all-star” team. Reporters gushed in the general hysteria of the times that Mueller would no doubt soon indict President Trump, some of his family, and almost anyone else […]

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The Deflation of the Academic Brand

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Trumpism is sometimes derided as an updated know-nothingism that rejects expertise and the input of credentialed expertise. Supposedly, professionals who could now save us tragically have their talent untapped as they sit idle at the Council of Foreign Relations, the economics Department at Harvard, or in the offices of

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08-13-2018 Angry Reader

From An Angry Reader: Subject: You are a racist idiot Your articles and ideas lower the IQ of this country every time they are published. The racism you employ in articles about Black Lives Matter, Crime, and pretty much anything you write is so disgusting its hard to swallow. Truly die in a hole. —————————————————————

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The Ancient War Between the Press and the President

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The media are furious that President Trump serially decries “fake news.” He often rants that journalists who traffic in it are “enemies of the people.” Reporters have compared Trump to mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler because of his dislike of the press. Trump may be crude to

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The Police Were Not Policed

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review No doubt Russia must be watched for its chronic efforts to sow more chaos in American elections — despite Barack Obama’s naïve assertion in 2016 that no entity could possibly ever rig a U.S. election, given the decentralization of state voting. Lately the heads of four U.S. intelligence and

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The Elites’ War on the Deplorables

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Recently Politico reporter Marc Caputo was angered at rude hecklers at a Trump rally who booed beleaguered CNN correspondent Jim Acosta. So Caputo tweeted of them, “If you put everyone’s mouths together in this video, you’d get a full set of teeth.” Politico had not employed such a crass journalist since before

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The American Art of Renewal

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review ‘Make America Great Again” is the oft-caricatured slogan of the Donald Trump presidency. When Trump was elected, he boasted of jump-starting the economy to achieve an annual economic growth rate of 4 percent. Experts laughed him off as a naïf who did not understand that structural changes in demography

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Victor Davis Hanson Reveals The Nature of History, Politics and The Left

Watch Victor Davis Hanson on a new episode of Whiskey Politics. Ep. 128 – Victor Davis Hanson joins Dave Sussman at the Whiskey Politics “Malibu Studio” where they discuss whether America is in a new civil war, illegal immigration, Mexico, NAFTA, Europe, the FBI, cronyism, the Left going Lefter, California splitting, and the increasingly overwhelming

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