VDH on the border and the US-Latin America diplomacy, the Left never paying a price, Daniel Penny’s indictment, the Biden Administration disaster, Ukraine’s counter-offensive, Greek-Turkish relations, and a cavalcade of movies celebrating Mother’s Day. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald’s, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors. But these businesses spread because they appealed to free-will consumer demand abroad. They were not imposed top down. The U.S. presence in Afghanistan collapsed in August 2021 amid the greatest
The New Ugly Americans Read More »
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss lawfare in Washington, DC, the Islamic wars of expansion, and Biden’s diplomacy disaster. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States? Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency? Why are Japan and India shrugging that they cannot follow the United States’ lead in boycotting Russian oil? Why
The Biden 10-Step Plan for Global Chaos Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine revolutionary Left-wing ideology: storming the Tennessee legislature, the WNBA and Jill Biden, the response to soaring black crime rates, diplomatic disasters, de-urbanization, and distractions like transgenderism. Share This
Ideology Kills People Read More »
The last few weeks, the world had been writing off the United States as either crazy or irrelevant as it watches America cannibalize itself. Friends tremble at our sudden decline. Enemies rejoice. Neutrals make the necessary adjustments to join the ascendant non-American side. The symptoms of our decline abroad appear everywhere. The more Joe Biden
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness American society is facing three existential crises not unlike those that overcame the late Roman, and a millennium later, terminal Byzantine, empires. Premodern Barbarism We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism. The signs unfortunately appear everywhere. Over half a million homeless people crowd our big-city downtowns. Most know the
Life Among the Ruins Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Ukraine mess is daily looking more like the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, a meat grinder that took 500,000 lives. That three-year conflict became a savage proxy war and prelude for the belligerents of World War II. The Ukraine battlefield is proving a similar laboratory of death.
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness During the current Ukrainian war, the media has created a mythology that the Left was tough on Vladimir Putin’s Russia. And thus, now it simply continues its hard-nosed efforts in Ukraine. But nothing could be further from the truth. Aside from Biden’s original panic of evacuating American diplomatic personnel from
Ukraine and the Malevolent Legacy of the Obama-Biden Administration Read More »
Join Victor Davis Hanson for his latest on current news with Sami Winc: midterm elections, foreign policy, inflation, energy, the deep and deeper state, and the Biden scandal a.k.a. the prodigal son. Share This
The News: Does It Have to Be this Way? Read More »