The Other Road
Listen in with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler on Herschel Walker’s defeat, Twitter dumps, university quality, Trump’s recent actions and reactions, and California’s wet weather. Share This
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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
Does Trump Really Want to Be President Again?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Team Trump has sometimes compared Donald Trump’s current quest for a nonsequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids. Cleveland remains our only elected (1884) president to have lost a reelection bid (1888)—in a disputed vote—only to be reelected four years later (1892). Yet Trump seems
How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The current “media”— loosely defined as the old major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, the network news channels, MSNBC and CNN, PBS and NPR, the online news aggregators like Google, Apple, and Yahoo, and the social media giants like the old Twitter and Facebook—are corrupt. They have adopted in
Crime and Punishment: How the Left Weaponized Our Government
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they analyze new special prosecutor Jack Smith investigating Trump, Trump’s dinner with Ye a.k.a. Kanye, Fauci’s legacy, and Bankman-Fried’s modus operandi. Share This
Was Trump Our Captain Queeg?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Left, the NeverTrump Right, and many independents are tiring of Donald Trump’s recitations of prior, however justified, grievances at the hands of the media, the Democratic Party, the administrative state, and hard-core Left. The conventional wisdom runs that Trump’s whines and victimization recitations reveal deep paranoias, and increasingly to
The Same Old, Same Old Déjà Vu
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith. But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid pro quo syndicate nor its incriminating confessionals on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Instead, it will further investigate Donald Trump’s possession of presidential records that were hauled off from
Post-Election Announcements and Investigations
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Trump’s announcement of a run for the presidency, the Garland investigation of Trump and the House investigation of Hunter Biden, Pelosi to step down, and Lee Zeldin’s possible run for the chair of the Republican National Committee. Share This
The Strange Morality of the Bay-Area Billionaire Left
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Ya. Hehe. I had to be. It’s what reputations are made of, to some extent. I feel bad for those guys who get f—ed by it, by this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes us.” —Sam Bankman-Fried The FTX
Let The Blame Games Begin?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Who or what was responsible for the Republican nationwide collapse in the midterms? After all, pundits, politicos, and pollsters all predicted a “red tsunami.” Moreover, the average loss of any president in his first midterm is 25 House seats. And when his approval sinks to or below 43 percent—in the