Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention. What follows is the exposure and repudiation of long-existing but previously covered-up pathologies. Events like the destruction of the southern border over the last three years, the October 7 massacre and ensuing Gaza war, the campus […]
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Anti-Israel/pro-Hamas campus protests have engulfed hundreds of college campuses. But the more coastal, blue-state, and supposedly elite the campus was, the more furious the violence that sometimes followed these demonstrations. Even rowdier and more vicious street analogs shut down key bridges, freeways, and religious services. Protestors often defaced hallowed American monuments, national cemeteries, and iconic
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In this Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Sami Winc look at the news stories of the week: Cohen and Castello testimony, Trump rally, a debate with Biden, the Left’s propensity to project and the polls. Share This
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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about protests as a class thing, faculty being as immature as students, universities as propaganda zones, a new approach to US immigration, and the new Left’s inception with the Obama administration. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The current radical and often violent protests on mostly blue-state, supposedly elite campuses have exposed in toxic fashion what the left has become. And yet, in a paradoxical fashion, the campus insanity has offered the nation some moral clarity. What’s surprising is not that the demonstrators are violent and nihilist,
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Do not believe the White House/mainstream media-concocted narrative that the four criminal court cases—prosecuted by Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis—were not in part coordinated, synchronized, and timed to reach their courtroom psychodramatic finales right during the 2024 campaign season. These local, state, and federal Lilliputian agendas
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Why does Biden play Iranian poker with American and Israeli lives? Answer? He envisions war sort of like affirmative action, in which the less accomplished belligerent is allowed all sorts of concessions for the sake of equity. Israeli and American military capability, and particularly their missile defenses, are seen as
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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore the meltdown of the EV craze, Biden’s strategic petroleum reserve at 17% and border control for the 2024 election, the Left demonizing conservatives, “Killing America” by Eli and Shelby Steele, and California subsidizing labor non-participation and other things destroying the state. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In 2021, Joe Biden was elected after a bitterly fought campaign that deposed the incumbent Donald Trump. Democrats eventually captured, for a time, both the House and Senate, ensuring the most left-wing government in modern American history. Americans were then set to witness a great experiment. For the first time
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This weekend Victor Davis Hanson interviews Benedict Beckeld about his book Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of the West and Kevin Feigelis about the Gaza war and campus life. Share This
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