America’s Decline

10 Steps to Save America

10 Steps to Save America

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a result of a natural disaster, an exhaustion of natural resources, plagues, or an existential war. Crushing national debt and annual deficits, spiraling

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Our Parasitic Generation

Our Parasitic Generation

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Be assured young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” — Adam Smith Are we sure that there is all that much ruin left in the United States? We are $31 trillion in collective debt. The new normal is $1.5 trillion budget deficits. The military

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If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand. Make war on coal and

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Our Military and Our Meritocracy

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the US Marine Corps, the war in Ukraine, and the asymmetry of radicalizing and tribalizing our culture. This last will not end well. Share This

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The Left Were the Mad Scientists, We Were Their Lab Rats

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As the midterms approach, one way of looking at America’s current disaster is that we, the American people, were lab rats. And since 2021, the Left were the mad scientists, eager to try out their crackpot leftist experiments on us. The result is that the housing market is tottering on

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The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Civilization is fragile. It hinges on ensuring the stuff of life. To be able to eat, to move about, to have shelter, to be free from state or tribal coercion, to be secure abroad, and safe at home—only that allows cultures to be freed from the daily drudgery of mere

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Equal Justice, They Said

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What once distinguished the United States from illiberal regimes following the Orwellian mantra “some are more equal than others” was the hallowed American idea of “equal justice under the law.” The phrase is engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court—an ideal that took centuries to achieve. Yet it

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To Bring Down a House of Cards

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler look at listeners questions on the Vietnam war, the decline of civilization, can decline be stopped, can woke destruction be reversed? Everyone needs to refuse to live by lies. Share This

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America Delira

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Travel abroad and or talk to pro-American foreigners here, and you will be surprised at what they say. It is not boilerplate anti-Americanism of the usual cheap Euro style. And their keen criticism is not just that we are $30 trillion in debt, dependent on China, with a corrupt elite,

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