Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: will Michelle Obama be the Democratic candidate, what is the meaning of Menendez’s crimes, is our Customs and Border Protection importing immigrants, does the UAW understand the cost of regulation, what is Mark Milley’s legacy as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of …
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Some truths are so staggering in their ramifications that Americans simply shrug and tune them out as if strangers in a strange land. Is their current bewilderment because modernist America is unrecognizable —a nonexistent border, downtown homeless juxtaposed to hipster professional elites, DEI racial essentialism, cities reverting to precivilizational wastelands, …
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 …
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection. In mid-December, a San Francisco-bound United Airlines Boeing 777-200 airliner, just a little over a minute after taking off from Maui, Hawaii, suddenly dived. It lost more than half its altitude and came within 800 feet of crashing into …
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Despite being Black, he [Rep. Byron Donalds] supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy.” — Representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.) “Larry Elder [former candidate for governor of California] is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned.” — Erika Smith, Los Angeles Times columnist America is an increasingly …
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For years, European policy makers had assured the world that the relatively rapid “transition” to “green” energy was the world’s preordained future—regardless of the costs. Accordingly, many European Union governments followed the advice of green experts. They eagerly shut down coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants to transition immediately …
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The U.S. Army has met only 40 percent of its 2022 recruiting goals. In fact, all branches of the military are facing historic resistance to their current recruiting efforts. If some solution is not found quickly, the armed forces will radically shrink or be forced to lower standards—or both. Such …