Energy

OPEC Shock: UAE Leaving as Trump’s Iran War Reshapes Global Oil

Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc argue the Iran war has been highly asymmetrical and strategically successful, rejecting media claims about Iran’s remaining capabilities and urging sustained pressure to force concessions while oil dynamics shift, including UAE talk of leaving OPEC and the potential for prices to fall. Hanson says Middle Eastern states quietly favor […]

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VDH UltraOPEC Shock: UAE Leaving as Trump’s Iran War Reshapes Global Oil

Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc argue the Iran war has been highly asymmetrical and strategically successful, rejecting media claims about Iran’s remaining capabilities and urging sustained pressure to force concessions while oil dynamics shift, including UAE talk of leaving OPEC and the potential for prices to fall. Hanson says Middle Eastern states quietly favor

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Pennsylvania’s Policy Battles: Energy Independence, School Choice, and America 250 | Andrew Lewis

Pennsylvania is “tied to the American story.” It’s the state that gave power to both the first and second industrial revolutions, saved the union at Gettysburg, and hosted the Constitutional convention. Andrew Lewis, Iraq war veteran and president of the Commonwealth Foundation, discusses why Pennsylvania matters nationally and how state-based think tanks turn free-market ideas

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VDH UltraPennsylvania’s Policy Battles: Energy Independence, School Choice, and America 250 | Andrew Lewis

Pennsylvania is “tied to the American story.” It’s the state that gave power to both the first and second industrial revolutions, saved the union at Gettysburg, and hosted the Constitutional convention. Andrew Lewis, Iraq war veteran and president of the Commonwealth Foundation, discusses why Pennsylvania matters nationally and how state-based think tanks turn free-market ideas

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Reality Caught Up to ‘Climate Change’

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For decades, the monolithic and sacrosanct international climate change hierarchy went unquestioned. Western nations in particular spent trillions of dollars over the past half-century to subsidize expensive but erratic wind and solar energy while demonizing carbon fuels as toxic threats to the planet. Like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion dogma, climate

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Victor Davis Hanson Show

A Conservative Schism? And the Battle of Crete, 1941

In this weekend episode, VDH and Sami look at, among other things, Tucker Carlson’s remarks at the memorial for Charlie Kirk and how Tucker’s brand of conservatism echoes Pat Buchanan’s, humanitarian aid efforts in Gaza, the failures of California’s solar power projects, and more. In the middle segment VDH assesses the Battle for Crete during

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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

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