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Trumpism—Without Trump?

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Six weeks ago, Americans were assured that Donald Trump had left the presidency on January 20, 2021 disgraced and forever ruined politically.  Trump was the first president to be impeached twice, and first to be tried as a private citizen when out of office. He was the first to […]

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War and Peace: from Thucydides to Biden

Victor Davis Hanson // The Classicist Listen to “War and Peace” Victor Davis Hanson explores how military history can illuminate current foreign policy challenges, delineates which nations pose the greatest threats to the United States, explores the role that human rights should play in international affairs, looks at the changing shape of America’s alliances, and

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Do Biden’s ‘tough new sanctions’ give Putin Nord Stream 2?

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Western media is greeting the Biden administration’s Russian sanctions as “signaling a tougher stance on Russia than under former President Donald Trump.” Vladimir Putin likely thinks otherwise. It looks as if the Biden administration has blinked on Putin’s key foreign policy objective — the completion and operation

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“Trumpism without Trump

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Six weeks ago, Americans were assured that Donald Trump had left the presidency on January 20, 2021 disgraced and forever ruined politically.  Trump was the first president to be impeached twice, and first to be tried as a private citizen when out of office. He was the first to

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Was COVID-19 Our Neutron Bomb?

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In the 1970s and 1980s, furor arose over our possible use of the “neutron bomb” that macabrely would “kill people, but not destroy property.” The logic of the perverse weapon was that on allied and friendly European ground, outnumbered defensive NATO troops might radiate and destroy invading masses of

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West’s ‘wokeness’ helped Russia to redefine a ‘prisoner of conscience’

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill By forcing the standards of “wokeness” on a Western institution like Amnesty International, the Kremlin has weakened Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny as he begins his almost three years in a penal colony near Vladimir (190 km from Moscow). Everyone understands he is a political prisoner,

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Was COVID-19 Our Neutron Bomb?

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In the 1970s and 1980s, furor arose over our possible use of the “neutron bomb” that macabrely would “kill people, but not destroy property.” The logic of the perverse weapon was that on allied and friendly European ground, outnumbered defensive NATO troops might radiate and destroy invading masses of

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Losing An American Genius

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Rush Limbaugh created modern national talk radio as we now know it—from nothing. For over three decades he kept at rapt attention weekdays—live from noon to three—the largest conservative audience in broadcast history. Over 15 million tuned in each week.  Last week—32 years, and over 23,000 hours of on-air

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