Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Jordan Peterson‘s public broadcast of his social media re-education, opening nuclear plants in California — the exception proving the rule — a look at San Francisco‘s decline, mirrored in other major cities, and the strange and dangerous men of the ranch. Share This
Hostile countries with nuclear capabilities have the upper hand on the global police. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The gangster state of North Korea became a nuclear power in 2006–07, despite lots of foreign aid aimed at precluding just such proliferation — help usually not otherwise accorded such a loony dictatorship. Apparently the …
Dictatorships abandon treaties when they become inconvenient. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online According to our recently proposed treaty with the Iranian government, Iran keeps much of its nuclear program while agreeing to slow its path to weapons-grade enrichment. The Iranians also get crippling economic sanctions lifted. Share This
We can afford to be overly optimistic about Iran, but Israel can’t. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online So far, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani’s peace ruse is still bearing some fruit. President Obama was eager to talk with him at the United Nations — only to be reportedly rebuffed, until Obama managed to phone …
by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO’s The Corner To believe in the current Iranian, post-Syrian peace initiative, we would have to believe that the Iranian theocracy concedes, in a stunning Qaddafi-like turn-around, that its decade-long effort to obtain nuclear weapons was a terrible strategic mistake that earned it only ostracism and crippling sanctions that have no …
by Raymond Ibrahim // FrontPage Magazine A Review of The Last Israelis by Noah Beck After constant exposure to critically important news, it begins to lose all meaning and sense of urgency. Hearing the same warnings over and over again—especially when the status quo seems static—can cause a certain desensitization, a resigned apathy that ignores the warnings in …
by Victor Davis Hanson // TLS A Review of three books: Saltpeter: The mother of gunpowder by David Cressy (Oxford University Press, 237pp) Napalm by Robert M. Neer (Belknap Press, 310pp) Warrior Geeks: How twenty-first-century technology is changing the way we fight and think about war by Christopher Coker (US: Columbia University Press, 330pp) Share This