Comment from an Angry Reader: Donald Trump’s campaign statements have consisted of proposals including, but not limited to: Violation of the NATO treaty by threatening to withhold assistance from allies based on alleged financial discrepancies; Ordering the US Military to commit first-degree murder of non-combatant civilians (“take out the families” of suspected terrorists) — a […]
On Grand Strategy, Immigration, And The 2016 Presidential Election by Victor Davis Hanson via Uncommon Knowledge Recorded on September 22, 2016 Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses Russia, China, and the danger of American withdrawal from the world stage. In addition, Hanson talks about immigration and assimilation in the United States throughout time. Hanson
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Comment from a Reader: “But even before the latest revelations from an eleven-year-old Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump crudely talked about women” TRUMP DID NOT TALK CRUDELY ABOUT WOMEN ON THIS TAPE- HE TALKED ABOUT HIS RIGHT AS A CELEBRITY TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT WOMEN!!! YOUR CONFLATING THE TWO IS UNBELIEVABLE. IF YOU HAVE A
Comment from a Reader: Maybe you can become his campaign manager now. That is, if you can get him to sit still long enough for you to explain to him who Bull Halsey is. Victor Davis Hanson’s Reply: Your cynicism is noted. But,as you know, Trump refers to Gens. MacArthur and George S. Patton with
Comment from a Reader: Dear Mr. Hanson; I left the Republican Party soon after watching eight years of ineffective “leadership” by Mitch McConnell, John Bohner, and now Paul Ryan. But the tipping point came when Trump was nominated for president. I cannot belong to a political party that would nominate an ignoramus and blowhard who
Comment on: Is Trump Admiral Bull Halsey of Captain Queeg? October 4, 2016 So—you tuned in hoping to see “Bull” Halsey? I suppose that was a reasonable expectation if the following propositions were true: 1. “Bull” Halsey was a draft dodger. 2. “Bull” Halsey was a cheat. “Bull” Halsey was a four-flusher. “Bull”
Victor Davis Hanson // Tribune Media Services World War II broke out when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. A once preventable war had become inevitable — and would soon become global — due to three fatal decisions. Most infamously, the Western European democracies had appeased Hitler during the late 1930s in hopes
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Victor Davis Hanson // Tribune Media Services The U.S. economy grew at an anemic rate of less than 1 percent in the last quarter of 2015. While the unemployment rate has dipped below 5 percent, the all-important labor force participation rate is at a historic low of just 62.7 percent. More than 90 million able-bodied
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By Victor Davis Hanson // Works and Days by PJMedia Western culture is deservedly exceptional. No other tradition has given the individual such security, freedom, and prosperity. The Athens-Jerusalem mixture of Christian humility (and guilt) and the classical Socratic introspection combined in the West to make it a particularly self-reflective and self-critical society, in a
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Victor Davis Hanson // Tribune Media Services In politically driven moods, the ancient Romans often wiped from history all mention of a prior hero or celebrity. They called such erasures damnatio memoriae. The Soviet Union likewise airbrushed away, or “Trotskyized,” all the images of any past kingpin who became politically incorrect. The Obama administration seems
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