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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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson chat about his new book with Jay Nordlinger on his podcast, Q & A. Victor Davis Hanson’s new book is “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.” Jay asks him a slew of questions, including: What caused the war? Was Hitler dumb to declare
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by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Read the original article here. His monumental contributions to American security are largely unknown to Americans today. Seventy-six years ago on Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese fleet surprise-attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the home port of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Japanese carrier planes killed 2,403 Americans. They sunk or
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by Victor Davis Hanson Read the original article in Defining Ideas here. Tribalism is one of history’s great destroyers. Once racial, religious, ethnic, or clan ties trump all considerations of merit and loyalty to the larger commonwealth, then factionalism leads to violence, violence to chaos, and chaos to the end of the state itself.
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Read the original article here. Civilization does not cure men of malice, especially when there are no repercussions for bad behavior. Observers look for some sort of common denominator that would make sense of the daily news blasts of nonconsensual sexual escapades of media, political, and Hollywood celebrities. No
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Victor Davis Hanson joins National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry to recount the key battles of World War II. Airing Sunday, Dec 03 12:15am EST on C-SPAN2 Watch the full interview here Share This
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From an Angry Reader: So, let me get this this right; you have the freedom to express your First Amendment Rights (your opinion article), the neo-nazi can express their first amendment rights (as they did this weekend in Charlottesville), but “multimillionaire young players, mostly in their 20s” cannot. If this country still had the draft,
by Victor Davis Hanson Originally published in the National Review. Read the original article here. History shows that special counsels almost inevitably overstep their mandates. Former FBI director Robert Mueller was supposed to run a narrow investigation into accusations of collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and the Russian government. But so far, Mueller’s work
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by Victor Davis Hanson Originally published at the National Review. Read the original article here. Plenty of people in ‘flyover’ country like not only Trump’s message — and actions — but also Trump, the loudmouth messenger. The political verdict seems out on Trump’s current political future. His supporters have won four special congressional elections. Yet,