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The World Goes On While America Sleeps

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The Democratically-controlled Senate spends thousands of collective hours conducting an impeachment trial against a president who is no longer president.  The acquittal is predetermined, as in the first impeachment effort a year ago—and known to be so to the Democratic prosecutors.  The constitutionally mandated presiding judge—the chief justice of […]

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Navalny proves too hot for ‘poisoner Putin’

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill On Feb. 2, the Moscow City Court sentenced Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny to two years and eight months in jail. Noted for its “telephone justice” (verdict dictated by the Kremlin), the Moscow court’s sentence revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has concluded that Navalny is too

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Our Animal Farm

George Orwell published Animal Farm in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most naïve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial about the contours of Moscow’s impending postwar communist aggression.  The short, allegorical novel’s human-like farm animals replay the transition of supposedly 1917 revolutionary Bolsheviks into cynical

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Will a Hard-Left Turn Lead to Pushback?

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The corruption of the Renaissance Church prompted the Reformation, which in turn sparked a Counter-Reformation of reformist, and more zealous, Catholics. The cultural excesses and economic recklessness of the Roaring ’20s were followed by the bleak, dour, and impoverished years of the Great Depression. The 1960s counterculture led to Richard

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‘New McCarthyism will prove an Orwellian mistake,’ says US historian

Pavlos Papadopoulos // Ekathimerini.com A friend of Greece and regular visitor to the country, Victor Davis Hanson is a rare breed of American intellectual: The professor of classics and military history at the California State University and senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute has supported Donald Trump in a

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