VDH critiques a Munich Security Conference panel, contrasting Matt Whitaker’s professionalism with AOC’s Taiwan “word salad” and Whitmer’s reluctance to address foreign policy, and also criticizes Hillary Clinton’s performance. Also discussed is why Putin may resist a Ukraine deal despite major losses and how Ukraine’s drone-focused defense is evolving. He praises Elon Musk for reviving… Continue reading AOC Makes Kamala Harris Sound Like Socrates, Cicero
From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Porn
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Democratic Party is polling about 27 percent approval—and sinking. In 2024, it lost the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and both the popular vote and the Electoral College, 312-226. In 2024, Trump won over 46 percent of the Hispanic vote, including a majority of Hispanic men.… Continue reading From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Porn
Is There a Democrat Blueprint to Regain Power?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What is the long-term Democratic Party’s strategy to return to power? Americans may ask that only because so far, the Democrat agenda seems to entail polarizing and alienating as many voters as possible. They gleefully double down on their 2024 defeat. And they seem almost to grow ecstatic at ensuring… Continue reading Is There a Democrat Blueprint to Regain Power?
Mythologies About Musk
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE. “Musk has no right to cut USAID.” Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs. They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Its mandate… Continue reading Mythologies About Musk
Devin Nunes Reemerges
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness 2024 proved to be the year of the reemergence of many once and unfairly pilloried public figures. Elon Musk weathered nonstop attacks on his X social media platform. Furor escalated over his newfound 2024 Trump advocacy—even as he ended 2024 with his iconic Tesla brand still the best-selling car in… Continue reading Devin Nunes Reemerges
We Are in Need of Renaissance People
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The songwriter, actor, country/western singer, musician, U.S. Army veteran, helicopter pilot, accomplished rugby player and boxer, Rhodes scholar, Pomona College and University of Oxford degreed, and summa cum laude literature graduate, Kris Kristofferson, recently died at 88. Americans may have known him best for writing smash hits like “Me and… Continue reading We Are in Need of Renaissance People
Two Antithetical Billionaires
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. He properly grew up on the Stanford campus, where his parents were well-known left-wing activist law professors. He went to a tony prep school and on to MIT. Bankman-Fried mocked society’s bourgeois capitalist conventions by dressing and looking… Continue reading Two Antithetical Billionaires
The New Disinformationists
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Biden Administration feels that it must now use federal resources to attack “disinformation.” So the Department of Homeland Security recently announced the creation of a “disinformation governance board.” The board’s executive director, Nina Jankowicz, at least has clear qualifications for the post. She previously had spread false rumors on social… Continue reading The New Disinformationists
Tearing Down the Silicon Valley Wall
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Elon Musk has finally managed to buy Twitter. And the moment he did, the enraged Left flipped out. Abruptly leftists began trashing their favorite electronic communications platform as the domain of the nation’s elite, professional classes. Had they just discovered that they had been racists and privileged users all this time?… Continue reading Tearing Down the Silicon Valley Wall