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Senior Fellow @HooverInst . Classics and military history. Opinions are my own.

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Preorder THE END OF EVERYTHING for 20% off with code VDH20. On sale May 7 @BasicBooks
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Here we are 78 years after the end of the Holocaust and once agains thuggish killers dressed in black are pulling Jewish elderly, women, and children out of their homes and executing them, and then throwing their bodies into the street. But in 1945 we were fighting the SS…
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A 50th Anniversary War? Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians—one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants, taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead? And how were the…
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Israel, Our White-House Absurdities, and the Left’s Empire of Lies The Biden administration is furiously trying to contextualize its past, unsupportable policies that have sown global chaos, especially in the Middle East. But the more it spins, the clearer its culpability. Does…
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They Kill, While Our Government Tweets and Deletes…. If wild reports are true that the inhuman Hamas will execute dozens of civilian hostages, and if it is further accurate that there are rumored Americans among them—and if Americans then are to be executed by Hamas—aside from…
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Suddenly after three years, a number of angry former Trump appointees—some on the prompt of potential or real book promotions, or in anger about firings, or their own legal exposure—are replaying all the supposedly atrocious things Trump said in private to them between 2017-21.…
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83 million? Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million! The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by…
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Special counsel Smith indicted Trump aide Walt Nauta  for an allegedly false statement of “I don’t know”. John Brennan and James Clapper both lied under oath to Congress. Andrew McCabe lied three times to federal investigators. James Comey 245 times under oath claimed ”I don’t…
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The Obama and the Biden administrations finally seemed to have achieved their aims, in what the Obamas once boasted would be the “fundamental transformation” of America into something unrecognizable by its Founders. But what they gave us was nihilism—the destruction of norms,…
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As Gen. Milley leaves office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, on his last day  he goes out ranting about his loyalty to the Constitution and not  to a “dictator,”—blasting Trump without mentioning Trump, and thus trumping as it were Trump’s own excesses with those of his own.…
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Special Counsel Jack Smith added new indictments against Donald Trump, among them conspiratorially “unlawfully discounting  legitimate votes.” Was Smith here referencing Stacy Abrams who for years claimed she was the real governor of Georgia, barnstorming the country to overturn…
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The Late, Great Hamas Finally Got Its Wish–And . . . ? Ever since Hamas was “elected” to run Gaza, and then followed the usual “one election/one time” Middle-East formula, it has bragged nonstop that its agenda was to erase Israel off the face of the earth (cf. the wall map in…
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The Incredible Lightness of Barack Obama Joe Biden is caught in a quadfecta of corruption, cognitive decline, a failed agenda, and eroding polls. Amid this apparent vacuum, an opportunistic Barack Obama — who used to be more discreet in managing his third term—is reentering the…
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The Colorado Insurrection Donald Trump is being erased from the Colorado primary (and general?) ballot, by warping the 14th Amendment, and in a way never envisioned by its creators. So now can one be guilty by fiat of Confederacy-like “insurrection,” when he has never been…
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We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as far-reaching and dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and 1860s or the 1930s. Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault, including the very processes by which we…
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James Comey warns us that Trump will weaponize the FBI. Does he mean leaking a confidential memo of a private presidential conversation to the press? Using a known fraudulent dossier to obtain a FISA warrant? Pleading amnesia or ignorance 245 times under oath to a…
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President Biden—the Matter Is Not  Over, Not Now, Not Ever President Biden Thursday night hit rock-bottom as he gave a mean-spirited distortion of the special counsel’s report. And in the process, Biden further embarrassed himself, his toady press, and the country at large. In…
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What Are “They” Afraid That a "Dictator”/President Trump Might Do? As Joe Biden’s political viability implodes, the exasperated Left has yet a new narrative: front-runner Trump and his extremist/semi-fascist/Ultra MAGA 160 million are out for “revenge” and “retribution—and that…
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Why Are They Destroying Us? If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day? What would an existential enemy do that we have not already done to ourselves? Here are eleven now familiar steps to…
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What the Left Has Bequeathed Us The Left has created new rules for national politics. Here are 20 some precedents they now have established for America in the future: 1) When in control of the Senate, demand the end of the filibuster; when not, don’t. 2) Call for the end of…
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama, often known to lecture Americans on their inequality and bias from one of her three mansion estates, reportedly recently out Kendied the diversity profiteering of Professor Ibram X. Kendi. She reportedly received an honorarium worth ca.…
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How To Destroy the American Legal System By either listening to testimonies or reading transcripts of the various 2024 Trump election-related court cases and testimonies, what we are left with is an epidemic of lies. 1) Hunter Biden’s current testimonies are contradicted by his…
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One Angry Biden Lie After Another A demagogic fuming Biden gave another Phantom of the Opera speech blasting conservatives for all the destruction that he has caused and has resulted in his own historic unpopularity. All too aware that he was confused and incoherent, his…
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Biden is Too Demented to Be Found Guilty of Crimes,  But Not Too Demented to Be President? Special Counsel Robert Hur just found Joe Biden was guilty of violating national security laws in removing classified documents— after examining then Senator and Vice President Biden’s…
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Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters we now daily witness that are nearly destroying the country.…
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Israel vs. a Death Cult Here are three critical considerations that must be understood about the current Israel-Hamas conflict. It is a sort of half-war. It consists of a military trying to defeat an organized clique of passive-aggressive, media-obsessed tribal murderers. It is…
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The Legal Circus of Letitia James Letitia James’s farcical prosecution of Donald Trump might win a conviction, given the known temperament and biases of the partisan presiding judge Arthur Engoron. And things are now escalating well beyond the facts of the indictment for…
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Trump Revenge? As Joe Biden’s polls plunge, his public bewilderment becomes chronic, and his exposed corruption can no longer be defended, pundits are writing furiously about the specter of “Trump revenge”. What is that, and why is it coming up now? The Republican primary polls…
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Retiring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley is hitting the media circuit as he retires. How odd of him to warn about all the unconstitutional measures that Donald Trump threatened to enact that supposedly justified the illegal or unethical acts that his opponents in…
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How Will the World React to Gaza? Hamas has always repelled most of the civilized world. But the world was either too scared or too woke to say just that. But now Hamas’s premodern violations of all human norms have relieved most nations of any pretense of having to support…
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Joe Biden has lost any shred of moral credibility to keep harping to Americans on privilege, guns, and paying their “fair share” of taxes since his own DOJ exempted his privileged felonious son who recklessly broke both gun and tax laws.
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Harvard Says to Us, Get Over It? Most of the nation witnessed three haughty, morally obtuse Ivy-League presidents humiliated in their groupthink televised House testimonies. But more than 700 Harvard faculty did not. They are circling the wagons to ensure that their benefactor…
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Don’t Do Unto Others What We Would Have Done to Them? Once more, it gets even creepier how the projectionist Left is daily still shrieking about impending Trump “revenge” and “rage”, or about Trump’s purported enemies lists to come, or about his planned weaponization of the…
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The Left is saying to America “We are so morally superior to you that we can and must employ any means necessary to achieve our unpopular political ends. But you cannot respond in kind or deter us by mimicking our own tactics, because should both parties do so, the resulting…
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All of sudden pundits are shrieking as they imagine the impending “end of democracy”. That is, that a potential president Trump might follow their lead and could do to them what they did to him: weaponizing the DOJ, FBI, and CIA against political enemies, siccing the…
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California is now spending a half-billion dollars to destroy 4 dams on Klamath River—as a record snowmelt goes out to sea due to insufficient reservoir storage. Another symptom of Decivilization—the systematic dismantling of all that brought us security and prosperity.
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The overt support for Hamas killers by the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd on a lot of campuses exposes to Americans the real moral and intellectual rot in higher education. via @VDHanson
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“Oh What a Tangled Web Biden Weaves, When He First Practices to Deceive” Joe Biden and his White House handlers continue to peddle misinformation if not lies about his removal of classified files. The worst is that Biden—supposedly so unlike Trump—came forward willingly as soon…
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Claudine Gay Is Only Digging Deeper… It is understandable that Claudine Gay is furious over her forced resignation, her calamitous fall from grace,  and the public consensus about the great damage done to Harvard by her presidency. But still playing the wounded-fawn is no…
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The Hamas One-Eyed Jack Gruesome details of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians continue to come to light. Hamas gunmen who have been captured or found wounded are quite candid in taped interviews about their killing spree. They apparently remain unapologetic about…
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Should we laugh or cry when Alvin Bragg today said he indicted Trump because he would not “normalize” criminal activity — this from a politicalized prosecutor who systematically has normalized violent crime in New York City by not  charging arrested felons or releasing violent…
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No Law Left in America—From Willis to Hur? From the testimonies of at least two associates of Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, from the inconsistent and self-contradictory statements of Willis and Wade themselves especially about large “cash” remittances, without any supporting…
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Why do so many liberal climate-activist grandees fly on private jets? Or why do those who profited from Black Lives Matter have a propensity for estate living? Or why do the community-activist Obamas prefer to live in not one, but three mansions? The answer is that calls for…
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How Can We Make Sense of the Current Senseless Absurdity? Is what’s happening all a bad dream? The wage of utter incompetence? A bad joke? Nefariousness? Perhaps the answer to fathoming the currently unfathomable is that the powers that run our national, state, and local…
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De Santis’s  Reality Defeats Newsom’s Fantasy World Ron De Santis and Gavin Newsom performed as any who have watched them would have predicted. At first, the glib and smarmy Newsom followed his usual script of strutting, posing��� teeth sparkling, hair shimmering—interrupting,…
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Biden’s lies on top of lies on top of lies. In the last week, Joe Biden had flat-out lied in the most egregious fashion in so many ways. In his disastrous press conference of last week, he claimed that special counsel Hur’s report exonerated him. Anyone who read the findings…
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What does a corrupt DOJ do? Have its ridiculous plea deal set up for Hunter thrown out by honest judge? Drop campaign violation charges against Dem donor, crypto crook Bankman-Fried? Beef up indictments against Biden’s leading 2024 opponent? Or all 3 in a week?
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Who Are the Real Insurrectionaries? Part One Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows just ordered Trump’s name removed from the primary ballot in May. She claimed he is guilty in her view of “insurrection”—a crime Trump has never been charged with, much less convicted of. Her…
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There Are Only Two Things That Can Stop the Re-election of Donald Trump The Biden news cycle is disastrous—and unending: a perfect storm of his failures abroad, disaster at the border, and reasons why sky-high prices nullify the Bidenomics hype. The bad news is interspersed…
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“Don’t!”— Or Ten Ways to Guarantee a Theater-wide War On the eve of the October 7 massacres, National Security Advisor bragged in an essay that his Mideast portfolio was “quieter than it has been for decades”. Now we are on the verge of a multifront Middle East war. How did Joe…
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From which of his three mansions—Kalorama, Martha’s Vineyard, or the Hawaii beachfront—did the prep-schooled and Ivy-leagued multimillionaire Barack Obama sound off at Sen. Tim Scott, who had denied that he had been a victim?
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All over America, we are now watching a recurrent tired script play out daily: A mediocre American academic—apparently desperate to win any sort of attention by outdoing the escalating campus hatred of Israel—spreads utter lies about that country, ostentatiously performs his…
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The Pro-Hamas Crowds will Soon Have a Rendezvous with Reality For over six months, the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests have accelerated, and now are predictably incendiary and violent. Recently, they have jumped the shark with unapologetic chants of “Death to America”. Or so a…
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Our Three Blind Mice ​​​​​​“Three blind mice. Three blind mice. See how they run. See how they run…” The recent testimonies of the three university presidents (Claudine Gay of Harvard, Sally Kornbluth of MIT, and [soon to be departed?] University of Pennsylvania’s Liz McGill)…
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Our Immoral Monsters Students at UCLA, some of them perhaps on foreign-student visas and others on some sort of taxpayer-funded support, are now marching with a new controversial and disputed chant: “Israel, Israel you cannot hide, we charge you with genocide”. But how strange…
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A common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions. Something like that is happening in the United States. …
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Hunter’s alleged felonies range from bribery to tax evasion. That he has not yet been prosecuted for anything is scandalous. His exemption is attributable only to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s likely weaponized directives to federal prosecutors to downgrade or forget…
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October 7 and the Touchstone of Hate The almost immediate posting after October 7 of the BLM poster glorifying the hang-gliding murderous entry into Israel only confirmed what most of us knew anyway. Black lives matter and the entire diversity/equity/inclusion conglomerate…
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This second debate descended into the same quagmire of the first debate: 1) The candidate who was polling anywhere from 30-40 percent ahead of the pack was not on the stage and that made it hard for the other candidates to attack their front-running rival in absentia—and almost…
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Out of pathological hatred or fear of Donald Trump, the Left has crafted one set of laws for themselves, and another for all other Americans. via @VDHanson
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Who Are the Real Insurrectionaries? Part Two Hillary Clinton was joined in her later efforts to deny the legitimacy of the 2016 election by a large chorus of elected House members, and ex-president Jimmy Carter. Carter in 2019 echoed her charges: “And there's no doubt that the…
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Are Biden & Co. Sane? Joe Biden just announced “$100 million for humanitarian assistance” in Gaza and the West Bank”. Despite his idiotic caveat that “we will have mechanisms in place so this aid reaches those in need —not Hamas or terrorist groups,” even Biden knows all too…
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Ask Kamala Harris yet a third time: Of the violent  summer 2020 riot organized by BLM and Antifa, Harris gushed: "They're not gonna stop, and everyone beware, because they're not gonna stop…they're not going to let up — and they should not.” Common denominator? Some…
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Harvard’s President Gay Resigns As we wrote here earlier, it was inevitable that Claudine Gay would eventually step down. A while back, we listed reason #1 of ten why she would resign: "Harvard can claim to be America’s preeminent university, or have a plagiarist as its…
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Trump must concentrate on the disaster of the Biden administration and reiterate nonstop the agendas of 2025 that will save us from tottering on the brink.
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America is in a similar position to where it was in 1861, 1929, 1941, and 1968—only perhaps worse, given in all those cases, there was at least a president and Congress that identified and reacted to the crisis, whereas today our elected government is what caused the crisis.…
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The wide-open border and Biden’s some 8-million illegal entries are an abject disaster that could well collapse the already flailing Biden presidency, given: 1) The furious anti-illegal immigration pushback unites quite different constituencies as Americans now poll 77 percent…
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Hunter And His Doomsday Bomb Hunter Biden’s latest ambush stunt was to show up unexpectedly and with an entourage at a House contempt hearing on his prior refusal to obey a congressional subpoena. We were supposed to forget that, unlike the case of Hunter, the Trump children had…
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The rest of the planet worries whether it will have enough food, energy, security, and shelter to live one more day. For most, the incessant, woke virtue-signaling from affluent Americans comes across as the whiny bullying of pampered, self-righteous—and increasingly…
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As this year’s election nears, expect the Russia! Russia! fantasies to heat up again to mask a failing administration and its indefensible record of a lethally open border, inflation, crime waves, foreign policy implosions, crackpot energy agendas, the weaponization of our…
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An Annotated Guide to American Middle East Madness Take note that a trapped Hamas in extremis will go to desperate lengths to survive, from trying to prompt lone-wolf killings in Western cities to drawing in Arab nations to share in their jihad to enlisting Western elites and…
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At Least 10 Reasons Why Claudine Gay Will Step Down—Sooner Rather than Later 1. Harvard can claim to be America’s preeminent university, or have a plagiarist as its president—but not both. 2. Harvard was neither candid nor transparent about its plagiarist “investigation”. By…
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MSNBC—Home to the Russian collusion hoax, the laptop disinformation fraud, the pangolin/bat-birthed Covid-19 virus, and the serial prevaricator John Brennan and so much more… It was surreal to hear MSNBC grandees damn the idea of Rona McDaniel as a MSNBC occasional commentator…
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We are on a trajectory similar to that of 1930s Germany. Weimar America via @VDHanson
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“It’s That Old Thing: Gotta Learn How to Shoot Straight.” Here it is: we give billions of dollars to Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority—presumably as “please be nice to us” protection / insurance money. All three autocracies then run with the lie that a…
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From Russian Collusion to “Bloodbath”—A Decade of Toxic Hysteria Ever since late June 2015—following Donald Trump’s announcement that he was running for president, and his voicing of controversial agendas (on tariffs, China, illegal immigration, foreign policy, NATO,…
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The Biden administration has contributed to the notion that Hamas was a legitimate Middle-East player. It fueled the perception that the U.S. was backing away from its traditional support for Israel—to the delight of Hamas—based on inexplicable policies. …
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The Ugly American? The Biden administration is reportedly trying to overthrow the elected government of Israel—almost in the fashion the Left used to rail about CIA-leveraged regime change in 1950s Latin America. Sen. Chuck Schumer all but called for a new imposed Israeli…
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Ballot Banishing And Our New Leftwing Confederates In the election of 1860, southern Democrats in 10 states of the soon-to-be formalized Confederacy made it almost impossible for their own voters to cast ballots for Abraham Lincoln for President. In that sense, the Left in…
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The  Predictable 2024 Biden Non-Campaign Joe Biden reportedly is weirdly asking the Ukrainians not to strike Russian oil facilities, despite the military utility of such attacks. Why? Not because he fears a wider war since he sent no such request in the prior two years of…
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The public now expects any accused prominent leftist to remain unindicted, while any non-leftwing target will be indicted, convicted, and jailed—for the same alleged offenses.
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The Torn Away Campus Scab—and the Sore Beneath How strange that at the 11th hour, a few college presidents, three weeks after the October 7 massacres, are finally issuing some criticism of the anti-Semitism that they, and their faculties had long ago tolerated and thus fueled.…
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Can We Know Them by What They Say and Do—Here and Abroad? As a general rule, in a free society, when there are two sides demonstrating, the merit of their respective causes can be assessed by the relative methods of protests that they each employ—as can be adjudicated by the…
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Obama’s unfulfilled ambitions set the stage for the Biden administration—staffed heavily with Obama veterans—to complete the revolutionary transformation of the Democratic Party and country. via @VDHanson
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Gaza and the Corruption of Language “Apartheid”. Like most leftist smears, it reflects projection. Arab citizens inside Israel—over half of whom are Muslims—vote, run for office, and have organized political parties. As a fifth of the population, they enjoy more security,…
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When Martin Luther King, Jr. called for emphasizing the “content of our character” over “the color of our skin,” the subtext was “stop judging people as a faceless collective on the basis of their superficial appearance and instead look to them as individuals with unique…
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Joe Biden’s bewilderment exempts his embarrassments from accountability in the way that Hunter Biden’s addictions excuse his past serial criminality. But the passes granted to both father and son would be now unsustainable with a viable Vice President in waiting.…
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Who Are the Real Insurrectionaries? Part Three For four years, there followed serial, often illegal, efforts to ensure that a now President Trump failed and was not to be reelected—most notably by the 3-year-long Russian “collusion” hoax, finally and reluctantly debunked by a…
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The last thing this country needs is any more bottled-piety lectures on the rule of law from Special Counsel Jack Smith, Joe Biden, and the array of admitted lying former high government officials. They, not Walt Nauta, should be ashamed. via @VDHanson
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Why the Epidemic of the Violent, Crybaby Protestors? After seven months of nonstop pro-Hamas protests on campuses and in our big cities, a certain predictable and monotonous pattern has emerged. The placards calling for the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel (“From the…
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Israel Between a Rock and a Hard Place Had Hamas killers not taken back some 240 hostages to their subterrain headquarters beneath hospitals, mosques, and schools, most would now have been destroyed by IDF. That reality explains Hamas gunmen’s carefully planned and massive…
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Alvin Bragg changed the course of American history today—-over the “felony” of a real estate magnate allegedly exaggerating the value of some of his properties and for mislabeling a supposed campaign expense? Was he thinking of the slap-on-the-wrist fining of Hillary Clinton for…
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The old politics of right versus left, and Republican opposed to Democrat have now given way to a new existential struggle: Americans must choose between civilization—or its destroyers. Civilization Versus the New Nihilists via @VDHanson
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Victor Davis Hanson
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Are We Reaching an Easter Breaking Point? In San Francisco, a huge crowd assembled to watch gay sex-mockery reenactments at the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s annual “Hunky Jesus” contest. (Would such brave, edgy activists ever welcome thousands for similar public sexual…
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Victor Davis Hanson
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“Beat the F---king Jew” and the American Campus October 7 and its aftermath have confirmed to the general public that the American university is not just dysfunctional but corrupt—a sad reality known by many on campus for years. University presidents have no obligation to weigh…
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Leftwing Incoherence? 1. The Pro-Hamas, pro-October 7 demonstrators are now so furious with Joe Biden (e.g., “Genocide Joe”), as he waffles back and forth on Gaza pauses and ceasefires, that they claim they won’t vote for him in 2024. Ok, but the point of their opposition would…
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Victor Davis Hanson
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The long-awaited Great Fundamental Transformation finally got its moment, crashed, and now has torched the nation—middle-class Americans most of all.
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Victor Davis Hanson
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Socialism has now almost permeated every aspect of our lives, disguised as it is by the rhetoric of “marginalized people” or “people of color” or particular interests who justify their war on rules, customs, meritocracy, and achievement by claiming the greater victimhood, past or…
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Colleges are now a bad deal—far too costly, too political, and too incompetent in fulfilling their mission to the country. The Sickness of Our Universities—and the Cure via @VDHanson
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Take Them At Their Words Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, at the UN in New York, just bluntly threatened individual American officials with violence: “I say frankly to the American statesmen, who are now managing the genocide in Palestine, that we do not…
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Victor Davis Hanson
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Rush Limbaugh is the genius of talk radio, a genre in which he not merely excelled but that he also singlehandedly reinvented as something entirely different – and entirely more powerful and instrumental in American life – from what was imaginable:
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