Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness At the end of the year, we are on the razor’s edge of many things that soon may blow up. Americans are far beyond President Joe Biden’s serial untruths of some eight years that he never discussed Hunter Biden’s various get-rich-quick schemes. All were predicated on the perception of foreign… Continue reading Our Razor’s Edge
How Were the Universities Lost?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses. Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing, and increasingly non-meritocratic. But immediately after October 7—and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces—the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of… Continue reading How Were the Universities Lost?
Weimar America
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies. At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted… Continue reading Weimar America
The Unhinged Among Us
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness October 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation. During peace and holiday, invading Hamas gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated, and mutilated some 1,200 Israelis. The vast majority were unarmed women, children, infants, and the elderly. The cowardly murderers proudly filmed their atrocities and then fled back… Continue reading The Unhinged Among Us
What Were the Hamas Monsters Thinking?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness We know the multifaceted strategy of the monstrous Hamas operation of October 7. In precivilizational fashion it wished to kill and mutilate the most vulnerable of all Israeli civilians and thus to shock the world that it was capable of—and proud about— anything, from decapitation to necrophilia. Such animalistic savagery,… Continue reading What Were the Hamas Monsters Thinking?
Can Europe Become Western Again?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large. Ostensibly it should. Some 750 million people live on the European subcontinent. Europe still remains the most popular tourist spot on earth. Its hallowed architecture, art,… Continue reading Can Europe Become Western Again?
Can We Save our Universities?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness It took the widely reported, repellent, and exempt wave of anti-Semitism and violent pro-Hamas protestors harassing Jews, finally to convince Americans that their own hallmark universities are illiberal centers of mediocrity and intolerance—and increasingly unsafe. Of course, Americans had long known that something had gone wrong at their colleges. They had increasingly… Continue reading Can We Save our Universities?
When Has War Even Been ‘Proportional?’
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Proportionality in war is a synonym for lethal stalemate, if not defeat. When two sides go at it with roughly equal forces, weapons, and strategies, the result is often a horrific deadlock—like the four years of toxic trench warfare on the Western Front of World War I that resulted in… Continue reading When Has War Even Been ‘Proportional?’
The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Peruse campus literature. Watch clips from university protests. Scan interviews with pro-Hamas protestors. Read the chalk propaganda sketched on campus sidewalks. Talk to raging students in the free speech area. And the one common denominator— besides their arrogance—is their abject ignorance. Take their following tired talking points: “Refugees” We are… Continue reading The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites
One Sick War
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There is something surreal, even sick about the current Gazan war. Throughout European and American cities and campuses, tens of thousands of Middle East immigrants and students, and radical leftists chant nonstop “Free Palestinian from the River to the Sea.” More recently, they are also yelling, “Israel, you can’t hide,… Continue reading One Sick War