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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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Texas Cage Match

VDH Podcast VDH talks about the border, the left and Biden’s first national address in his most recent podcast. Listen here Share This

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Strategika #71: China and the Pandemic

Domestic Disorder and International Credibility Please read a new essay by my colleague, Mark Moyar in Strategika. George Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020 at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer triggered allegations that his fate exposed a much broader problem of racism in American law enforcement and American society more generally. As this

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The Legends of Our Fall

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Many politicians at one point or another live by lies—if they can get away with them.  Our supposed sentinels, the media—self-defined as independent, cynical, and skeptical journalists—are supposed to separate political fictions from truth.   Legends As Facts  Of course, sometimes they used to do that—if only selectively. There were

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