Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There have been more than 8 million illegal entries into the United States since Joe Biden was elected president. He appointed Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security, whose apparent prime directive was to destroy the southern border. That task is precisely what Mayorkas has now accomplished. The result is that the border is neither “porous” nor “problematic,” but… Continue reading The Utter Insanity of Joe Biden’s Open Border
2024—the Year of our Reckoning
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness We should remember the now modern proverb of Nixon-era economic advisor Herb Stein to the effect that what cannot go on (without destroying the nation), simply will not go on. In some sense, the country for recent years has been cruising on the fumes from prior and likely better wiser… Continue reading 2024—the Year of our Reckoning
A Therapeutic Middle East Versus A Tragic One
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Classical diplomacy warns leaders to be neither obsequious and appeasing abroad, nor gratuitously boastful and hard-headed. The usual advice is don’t-tread-on-me resoluteness, or what Teddy Roosevelt characterized as “speak softly and carry a big stick.” The alternatives – whether “speak loudly and carry a twig,” “speak softly and carry a… Continue reading A Therapeutic Middle East Versus A Tragic One
Does Iran Realize Its Own Growing Danger?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Iran understandably believes it is riding quite high. It is flush with cash. It hints it almost has the bomb—and might use it soon. The Iranians are bragging about their new tyrannical allies like Russia and China. Iran boasts of now being the self-proclaimed leader of jihad on behalf of… Continue reading Does Iran Realize Its Own Growing Danger?
Our Post-Hamas Wreckage
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As Hamas goes, so with it go many of the following related Western pretensions. The Passions of 9/11, Redux It has been 22 years since we saw crowds throughout the Middle East celebrating the murder of 3,000 civilians—and since newspapers had daily “idiot watch” notices of American intellectuals defending radical… Continue reading Our Post-Hamas Wreckage
Hamas and Amoral Clarity
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One unexpected blowback from the medieval Hamas’s barbaric murdering of hundreds of Israeli civilians is the revelation of current global amorality. More than 20 Harvard university identity politics groups pledged their support to the Hamas murderers—to the utter silence for days of Harvard President Claudine Gay. Americans knew higher education… Continue reading Hamas and Amoral Clarity
Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel. A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state. And more often there have been mixtures of both. Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an… Continue reading Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War
Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities
One common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions. Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the deliberate erasure of the southern border. Apparently, the… Continue reading Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities
Our Self-Induced Catastrophe at the Border
Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 and 8 million illegal entries across the now nonexistent U.S. southern border. The more the border vanished, the more federal immigration law was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas spun fantasies that the “border is secure.” He is now written off as a… Continue reading Our Self-Induced Catastrophe at the Border
How Biden Will Circle the Wagons?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The strategies of saving the Biden presidency from an impeachment and a Senate trial despite overwhelming evidence of his corruption are starting to emerge. The Family is confronted with damning evidence from the laptop, from the testimonies of Hunter’s business associates Bobulinksi and Archer, from Ukrainian oligarchs and Viktor Shokin,… Continue reading How Biden Will Circle the Wagons?