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… Continue reading OPEC Shock: UAE Leaving as Trump’s Iran War Reshapes Global Oil
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… Continue reading Pennsylvania’s Policy Battles: Energy Independence, School Choice, and America 250 | Andrew Lewis
Ohio’s Fracking Boom Brought Out the Best in American Enterprise | Rep. Troy Balderon
We have “100 years of natural gas below our feet” is Rep. Troy Balderon’s, R-Ohio, appraisal of the energy situation in his home state. Since the early 2010s, The Buckeye State has been host to one of the largest “fracking booms” in the country, which has helped awaken and foster the entrepreneurial spirit throughout the… Continue reading Ohio’s Fracking Boom Brought Out the Best in American Enterprise | Rep. Troy Balderon
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… Continue reading Reality Caught Up to ‘Climate Change’
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
America and Europe Can Hang Together—Or Hang Separately
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Consider these European and American binaries. On December 20, 2024, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in Magdeburg, Germany. He killed 6 pedestrians and injured 299 others. Eleven days later, on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, Louisiana, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar smashed his pickup… Continue reading America and Europe Can Hang Together—Or Hang Separately
Do Leftists Now Believe Leftism Doesn’t Work?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness It is hard to destroy a naturally beautiful city like San Francisco, with ideal weather and stunning infrastructure inherited from far better earlier generations. Yet San Francisco continues its much-publicized and self-inflicted doom loop. The productive classes still flee the increasingly crime-ridden city and its self-induced pathologies. The city is… Continue reading Do Leftists Now Believe Leftism Doesn’t Work?
Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities
One common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions. Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the deliberate erasure of the southern border. Apparently, the… Continue reading Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities
If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand. Make war on coal and… Continue reading If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .
The Left Were the Mad Scientists, We Were Their Lab Rats
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As the midterms approach, one way of looking at America’s current disaster is that we, the American people, were lab rats. And since 2021, the Left were the mad scientists, eager to try out their crackpot leftist experiments on us. The result is that the housing market is tottering on… Continue reading The Left Were the Mad Scientists, We Were Their Lab Rats