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Why I Left National Review

Victor Davis Hanson RealClearPolitics The following is a transcript of Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Dying Citizen, speaking with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson about why he no longer writes for the National Review. American Greatness is proud that Hanson is now a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for American Greatness and appears regularly

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Can America survive progressives’ attacks on its origins and values?

Victor Davis Hanson The New York Post Over the last two years, progressive critics have casually attacked the origins, nature and values of American society. Is the idea of America so indestructible that it can weather any assault? The foundational dates of America — the signing in 1776 of the Declaration of Independence and in

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VDH UltraReal People Behind the Open Borders Rhetoric

Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Corner We talk nonchalantly of an open border, of “comprehensive immigration reform.” But we forget there are lives of the innocent transformed and sometimes wrecked by allowing thousands of foreign nationals without audit to enter the U.S. illegally and to reside here unlawfully, while we the host has lost all confidence

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The Dangerous, Diminishing Power of the Independent American Citizen

Victor Davis Hanson Fox News The last two years seem to have been one continual crisis—well aside from the coronavirus pandemic. The spiraling prices of cars, gas, appliances, lumber, homes, and food are revisiting the miseries of the 1970s. Anarchy defines the border. A new divisive tribalism centers on “critical race theory.” Unelected Washington grandees in the CIA, FBI,

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VDH UltraThe New Nullificationers—or When Laws Mean Nothing

Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet We now have about 500-600 jurisdictions that are “sanctuary” cities, counties, and entire states—where progressive neo-Confederates have declared that federal law is now null and void in their safe spaces. But perhaps the most recent and dramatic instance of the nullification of state and local laws—“de facto nullification” as a

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Our Woke National Icons

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As we watch events unfold in 2021, obvious questions about the fitness of our national leaders present themselves. Who are these new woke national icons and how did they come to lord it over the rest of us? Here are some observations by way of preliminary explanation. The Strategist Chairman

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Week In Review

Citizenship, Orwell and Our Times The Dying Citizen, VDH’s new book, is out on October 5 this week. Enjoy the examination of citizenship and the threat of tribalism, bureaucracy, and globalization. The week’s work is still below. Share This

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VDH UltraRevolution without the Middle Class

Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The beleaguered middle class, especially those of the suburbs, for the most part did not join rioting radicalized youths and inner-city minorities in the violence, looting, and destruction, even as their businesses were often targeted, and jobs lost. Some small stores that had somehow endured the two months of shutdowns,

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