Our emboldened enemies do not fear us, our triangulating allies judge us unreliable and calculating neutrals assume America is in descent and too dangerous to join.
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com. His columns appears Sundays in the Review-Journal.
As the country collapses under leftist nihilism, the revolution’s last gasp is to destroy Trump
For the radical Left, ideology exempts its political violence.
Russia’s cruel strategy is to grind down Ukraine and turn its eastern regions into a Verdun-like deathscape.
The Byzantines never woke up in time to understand what they had become. So far, neither have Americans.
Apparently, the more technologically sophisticated and affluent Americans became, the more their elites believed they could change ancient human nature.
Someday wokeism will disappear because it is inherently nihilistic and cannibalistic.
The longer this preview war goes on, the surer will follow the nightmarish main attraction.
In sum, our government is playing with our lives as it prefers diversity, equity and inclusion over ensuring the best-qualified employees are hired.
National cohesion is only possible through citizens subordinating their tribal interests to a common culture.
First, a stranger would face a far greater challenge entering a post-presidential Mar-a-Lago than a pre-presidential Biden home, office, or garage — or who knows where?
In that sense Mexico is doing more damage to America than all our prior enemies combined.
The current Democratic Party and NeverTrump “conservatives” assumed that Trump was and remains so obviously toxic that they do not have to define exactly what his evil entails.
We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup we never knew.