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VDH UltraRemembering the Old Breed. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals I once talked to the Land Bank officer, a smart though cranky accountant near retirement. He called our farming operation “non-rational,” after he viewed the layout of my grandfather’s 120 acres. My Punjabi neighbor (who begrudgingly admitted that, as one of the first Sikhs to arrive in […]

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Trickle-Down Racist Antiracism

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Elected governments were rare in the past. They did not appear until over four millennia after civilization first emerged in the Near East. Constitutional systems were fragile at birth. And they are on the wane today. Nation after nation seems to be devolving into autocracy. Multiethnic, multiracial consensual governments have been

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Loose Nuke Talk

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Americans, like the planet’s other 7.5 billion people, are not prone to talk or think much about nuclear weapons. Of course, some of us are old enough to remember how “mutually assured destruction,” or MAD, was supposed to ensure the general peace. Some recall the eerie Cold War-era nuclear bomb

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The Debasement of Our Professional and Political Classes

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The left-wing professional and political classes bequeathed a number of new protocols during the Trump-derangement years. And it will be interesting to watch whether the Republicans abide by them in November should they take back the House and perhaps the Senate—and the presidency in 2024 as well. Will they follow

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Can Ukraine Ever Win?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Even a truncated Russian Federation has four times the pre-war population of Ukraine. It enjoys well over 10 times the Ukrainian gross domestic product. Russia covers almost 30 times Ukraine’s area. And how does Ukraine expel Russian troops from its borders when its Western allies must put particular restrictions on

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The Nihilism of the Left

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent American history when the hard Left has operated all the levers of federal government. The presidency, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the permanent bureaucratic state are all in progressive hands. And the result is a

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History Should Be Our Guide in Ukraine

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There are several historical referents we should keep in mind about the Ukraine war. First, no-fly zones. Lots of Westerners are calling for NATO aircraft to establish a no-fly zone above Ukraine to stop Russian bombing of Ukrainian cities. That is a terrible idea. Russian planes can still launch missiles

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The Sheer Madness of Today’s Left

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness With that exclamation, director David Lean ended his epic film about a dutiful but vainglorious British officer who sought to display to his Japanese captors superior British discipline and morale in a prisoner of war camp. As proof of British engineering superiority, he pursues his agendas by ordering his POWs

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VDH Joins Jan Jekielek from The Epoch Times

This requires a paid subscription to Epoch Times and is well worth it.  This link takes you to the ad link: Watch VDH on Epoch Times with Jan Jekielek Jan interviews Dr. Hanson on the Ukraine war from his ranch in the Central Valley. Share This

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