by Victor Davis Hanson Wednesday, January 17, 2018 Originally Published on Hoover.org in Defining Ideas Is Donald Trump’s slogan “Make America great again” mere campaign rhetoric in the tradition of Barack Obama’s “hope and change,” George H. W. Bush’s “a kinder, gentler nation,” and Ronald Reagan’s “It’s morning in America again”? Or do such renaissances […]
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Title: The Sinews of Empire By Seth Cropsey Originally published on Hoover.org Modern scholars of politics revel in their complex descriptions of state action. Rather than oversimplifying and reducing the state to a unitary body, they separate its internal components and assess each of their relative strengths. There’s something to this. However, politics
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Op-Ed By Victor Davis Hanson Los Angeles Times The loud fight over what will happen to America’s “Dreamers” isn’t what it seems. For both sides, it’s a fig leaf used to mask their true intentions. In his first term, Barack Obama admitted that he had no constitutional authority (“I’m president, I’m not king”) to
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By Victor Davis Hanson| January 15, 2018 American Greatness What if something like CNN and modern communications were around in early 1945? What if the rules of presidential news coverage were then as they are now? And what if such a mythical CNN hated Franklin Delano Roosevelt as much as it despises Donald Trump, then
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by Victor Davis Hanson//National Review Trump is commonsensically undoing, piece by piece, the main components of Obama’s legacy. Donald Trump continues to baffle. Never Trump Republicans still struggle to square the circle of quietly agreeing so far with most of his policies, as they loudly insist that his record is already nullified by
by Paul R. Gregory Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Defining Ideas Image credit: Barbara Kelley As the collapse of the Soviet Union approached, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the victory of liberal democracy over planned socialism in his 1989 essay, “The End of History?” More than a quarter century later, the USSR has indeed disintegrated. Its former east European
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by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review By cutting off hundreds of millions in American aid to the Palestinian Authority, the president could radically alter the Middle East. President Trump set off another Twitter firestorm last week when he hinted that he may be considering cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in annual
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By Victor Davis Hanson — National Review Trump’s critics ratchet up to insurrection, but Trump’s tax reforms and our growing economy could derail their dreams. George H. W. Bush gave up power quietly and turned to charity work and occasional ceremonial speaking after his reelection defeat in 1992. George W. Bush — like Jerry Ford
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The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review I agree with most commentators that Michael Wolff’s sensational mythologies in Fire and Fury will be largely forgotten within three weeks — with one caveat (see below). Wolff confirmed what most already knew about the Left’s abandonment of standards of journalistic
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by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review Given several rapidly developing geopolitical factors, North Korea may look much different by the end of the new year. For good or evil, we may see radical changes in North Korea in 2018. The beefed-up United Nations sanctions by midyear could lead to widespread North Korean
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