In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson takes on questions from his readers: he explains his optimism in US, takes a look at China today, assesses the decline of the ancient Athenian empire, gives a short on the Suez Crisis of 1955-56, and analyzes the long view of progressive control in US politics. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The American post-Cold War order from the Ronald Reagan through George W. Bush administration is over. Barack Obama began its erosion with his tired lectures about the past sins of the United States. Obama empowered radical Islamists. He invited Russia back into the Middle East after a forty-year hiatus. He
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the pride events at the White House and the Pentagon, new evidence on the Wuhan Lab leak, and evidence from Burisma incriminating Biden. Share This
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for a look at the Trump indictment, comparable Biden family acts, Tucker Carlson’s return, can Putin be forced out of the Ukraine, Saudi sentiments, and China in Cuba. Share This
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to look at foreign policy issues: the new political alliances of Russia, China and countries in the Middle East, the Wagner Group, and our own military missteps. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying. Special-counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice. The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc to analyze the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, the IRS targeting Matt Taibbi, Xi Jinping says China’s preparing for war, the power of artificial intelligence, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s court case. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Ukrainians, and many Europeans and Americans, are defining an envisioned Ukrainian victory as the complete expulsion of all Russians from its 2013 borders. Or, as a Ukrainian national security chief put it, the war ends with Ukrainian tanks in Red Square. But mysteries remain about such ambitious agendas. What would
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Stanford was once one of the world’s great universities. It birthed Silicon Valley in its prime. And along with its nearby twin and rival, UC Berkeley, its brilliant researchers, and teachers helped fuel the mid-20th-century California miracle. That was then. But like the descent of California, now something has gone
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome. Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies,