Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Few predicted that blaming Israel and the Jews who support it would flare up in the early 21st century—and in America of all places, where there are nearly as many Jews as there are in Israel. After all, Israel is the only consensual society in the Middle East. It holds… Continue reading The Four Horsemen of the New Antisemitism
The Danger of Dumbing Down American Students
VDH and Jack continue their ranking of the “Sour 16” to determine which issues pose the greatest existential threat to the United States in 2026. We’ve now entered ROUND 2 of the bracket, the “Hate 8.” Here’s the list: Rogue Nukes versus Ruin of Cities Gain-of-Function bio-weapon pandemic versus Destruction of the nuclear family Growth… Continue reading The Danger of Dumbing Down American Students
What I Fear Worse Than Socialist Democratic Government
In a new March Madness-style series that will pair off “16 terrible issues” against each other, VDH will act as the judge, ruling on the greatest existential threat to the United States. In the first episode, he decides whether the following are the biggest issues facing the United States in 2026: China vs. rogue nukes… Continue reading What I Fear Worse Than Socialist Democratic Government
The Four Horsemen of the Western Apocalypse
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises. Yet they are all self-inflicted—and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides. These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage. Indeed, they are destroying the very civilization that was soon envisioned to be heaven on earth. The… Continue reading The Four Horsemen of the Western Apocalypse
War’s Paradoxes II: From the Peloponnesian War to ‘Leading From Behind’
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media 1. Why Did Athens Lose the Peloponnesian War? It really did not in a way: Athens no more lost the war than Hitler did the Second World War between September 1939 and May 1941. Instead it was defeated in a series of wars (only later seen as elements of… Continue reading War’s Paradoxes II: From the Peloponnesian War to ‘Leading From Behind’
2013: Welcome to Very, Very Scary Times
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media On the One Hand… These should not be foreboding years. The US is in the midst of a veritable energy revolution. There is a godsend of new gas and oil discoveries that will help to curtail our fiscal and foreign policy vulnerabilities — an energy bonanza despite, not because of[1],… Continue reading 2013: Welcome to Very, Very Scary Times
The Rise of Faux Diversity
by Bruce Thornton Defining Ideas In Fisher vs. University of Texas, the Supreme Court heard legal challenges to the University of Texas’s admissions policies, which allow consideration of an applicant’s race in order to promote “diversity” among the school’s students. Such racial preferences are widespread in university admissions. In 80 percent of elite schools, they amount… Continue reading The Rise of Faux Diversity
Are We Becoming Medieval?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A tourist mecca like Venice now boasts that it dreams of breaking away from an insolvent Italy. Similarly Barcelona, and perhaps the Basques and the Catalonians in general, claim they want no part of a bankrupt Spain. Scotland fantasizes about becoming separate from Great Britain. The Greek Right dreams… Continue reading Are We Becoming Medieval?
The New Reactionaries
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Starting in the 1930s and continuing after the war, the Democrats offered a liberal critique of, or perhaps enhancement to, the Republican vision of rugged individualism. A modern American state now had the capital and the moral ambition to smooth the rougher edges of capitalism by insisting on… Continue reading The New Reactionaries