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The Anti-Trump Bourbons: Learning and Forgetting Nothing in Time for 2020

Leave a Comment / August 16, 2017

By Victor Davis Hanson| American Greatness Just seven months into Donald Trump’s administration we are already bombarded with political angling and speculations about the 2020 presidential race. No one knows in the next three years what can happen to a volatile Trump presidency or his psychotic enemies, but for now such pronouncements of doom seem […]

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Is There Still a Conservative Foreign Policy?

Leave a Comment / August 16, 2017

by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Trump did not create the divide in the GOP policy world — he exposed it. The Trump victory and the Republican establishment’s mostly negative reaction to it have in matters of foreign policy called into question who is conservative, who not — and whether the old ideological rubrics

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North Korea Crisis and the Ongoing Problem with NeverTrumpers

Leave a Comment / August 11, 2017

Victor Davis Hanson on the North Korea Crisis and the Ongoing Problem with Never-Trumpers By The Editors August 11, 2017 American Greatness Victor Davis Hanson returned to the “Seth and Chris Show” to discuss how North Korea became a crisis, what China’s role is, how the United States can reassert itself in Asia, and why

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Is California Cracking Up?

Leave a Comment / August 10, 2017

by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review With poor education, a budget deficit, and crumbling infrastructure, Californians shouldn’t be focused on idealistic social programs. Corporate profits at California-based transnational corporations such as Apple, Facebook, and Google are hitting record highs. California housing prices from La Jolla to Berkeley along the Pacific Coast can

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Why Does the Left Suddenly Hate Russia?

Leave a Comment / August 8, 2017

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review After 70 years of accommodating and appeasing Russia, Democrats suddenly foment a red scare. Russian Realism? No one doubts that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is no ally of the U.S. But rivalry is quite a different notion than returning to the Cold War, when enemies faced each other down with

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McMaster and Mattis Are Rare Assets—Not Deep State Liabilities

Leave a Comment / August 7, 2017

By Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There is a larger context concerning the recent controversies among the architects of Trump’s national security team and agenda, and the criticism of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster. Recall first that the foreign policy of Barack Obama, Ben Rhodes, Susan Rice, and Hillary Clinton could be best termed “provocative

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Is Kim Jong-un an Evil Buffoon or an Evil Genius?

Leave a Comment / August 7, 2017

The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review Kim Jong-un has accomplished something that neither his grandfather nor father pulled off during the last 70 years: bringing an existential threat to the shores of the United States. North Korea’s handful of missiles that are soon to be pointed our way

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The Problem of Competitive Victimhood

Leave a Comment / August 3, 2017

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Divisive identity politics are fading in favor of a shared American identity. The startling 2016 presidential election weakened the notion of tribal identity rather than a shared American identity. And it may have begun a return to the old idea of unhyphenated Americans. Many working-class voters left the Democratic

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Miracle At Dunkirk

Leave a Comment / August 3, 2017

by Victor Davis Hanson // Defining Ideas Wednesday, August 2, 2017 A quarter-million troops of the British Expeditionary Force, together with about 140,000 French and Belgian soldiers, were safely evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk, France between May 26 and June 4, 1940, in one of the largest successful maritime evacuations of trapped armies in

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Trump — And the Use and Abuse of Madness

Leave a Comment / August 1, 2017

By Victor Davis Hanson National Review Fiery and unpredictable rhetoric can be a powerful strategic tool, but only if it’s not habitual. Occasionally insanity, real or feigned, has its political advantages —largely because of its ancillary traits of unpredictability and an aura of immunity from appeals to reason, sobriety, and moderation. Rogues often try to

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