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Getting the facts right on Operation Warp Speed

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Former President Donald Trump formally announced Operation Warp Speed (OWS) on May 15, 2020. OWS was constituted as a projected $18 billion business-government-military partnership, charged to “produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy […]

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Angry Reader 03-22-2021

From A Not Angry Reader: Dear Professor Hanson, I am not an angry reader. I am an eternally grateful reader who only hopes to see this on your “Dear Angry Reader” page so that I know you read my note. In your latest podcast you state that Rush Limbaugh is irreplaceable. Perhaps. I don’t know.

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Follow the “Science,” They Say

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Throughout the Trump years and in particular during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis, the nation was lectured by the Left “to follow the data,” as the Democrats proclaimed themselves the “party of science.” As sober and judicious children of the enlightenment, they alone offered the necessary disinterested correctives to

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Diplomatic Lessons?

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers A forty-something inexperienced JFK in June 1961 was clobbered at the Vienna summit by Nikita Khrushchev—and learned the USSR interpreted magnanimity and earnestness as weakness to be exploited not reciprocated. (Read about the Summit) The same happened this week in Anchorage to our Secretary of State Blinken and National

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Who Is Our Military’s Enemy?

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.  The new secretary of defense relayed his “revulsion” for Carlson’s questioning the role of women in combat—a position that had been the military’s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby

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Who Is Our Military’s Enemy?

The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.  The new secretary of defense relayed his “revulsion” for Carlson’s questioning the role of women in combat—a position that had been the military’s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby even compared Carlson to the Communist

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