Victor Davis Hanson
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Stanford, CA, United States
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The Woke Wrecking Machine
Almost everything that has followed from the woke mass hysteria gripping the nation since 2020 has proved disastrous. Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result — history... → Read More
The Ukraine War's Prelude to What?
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 bellig... → Read More
Americans Die When Merit No Longer Matters
A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection. Something has gone terribly wrong. → Read More
Destroying Meritocracy Is Deadly
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 takin... → Read More
The Mess of an Address
After listening to the State of the Union address, Americans know why the latest Reuters poll has President Joe Biden at 41 percent approval. Vice President Kamala Harris polls even lower — desp... → Read More
Race Everywhere
Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five Black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit... → Read More
The Real Differences Between the Biden and Trump Document Troves
Former President Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled “classified” at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did President Joe Biden at his various homes in Delaware... → Read More
Mexico Is Not Really an American Friend
Left-wing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recently praised a visiting President Joe Biden: “Just imagine: There are 40 million Mexicans in the United States — 40 million who... → Read More
What Caused the Political Hysteria?
The Left has gone mad over former President Donald J. Trump — past, present, and future. The current Democratic Party and NeverTrump “conservatives” assumed that Trump was and remain... → Read More
Did Someone or Something Seize Control of the United States?
What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Bid... → Read More
The New, New Antisemitism
The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon — perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 196... → Read More
Are Universities Doomed?
In a famous exchange in the The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.”... → Read More
2 Antithetical Billionaires
It's telling to see the difference in how the Left treats Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried. → Read More
Two Antithetical Billionaires
Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. He properly grew up on the Stanford campus, where his parents were well-known left-wing activist law pr... → Read More
Does Trump Really Want To Be President Again?
Team Trump has sometimes compared former President Donald Trump’s current quest for a non-sequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids.... → Read More
If You Really Wanted to Destroy the US, Then...
First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the... → Read More
The Same Old, Same Old Deja Vu
Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith. But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid pro quo syndicate nor its incriminati... → Read More
Let the Republicans’ election blame game begin?
Who or what was responsible for the Republican nationwide collapse in the midterms? After all, pundits, politicos and pollsters all predicted a “red tsunami.” → Read More
Let the Blame Games Begin?
Who or what was responsible for the Republican nationwide collapse in the midterms? After all, pundits, politicos, and pollsters all predicted a “red tsunami.”... → Read More
Tuesday Takeaways
What, if anything, did the midterms tell us about the country — other than underwhelming Republicans could still take the House and Senate? During the COVID-19 lockdowns, American elections radi... → Read More