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 […]
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,