Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven.
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.
We are now beginning to see the consequences of what happens when premodern tribalism absorbs Americans.
Fiasco is the president’s fault.
If we don’t wake up from wokeness, we will continue on our sure trajectory to self-inflicted, systemic paralysis.
Vaccine hesitancy more complicated than the media lets on.
Wokeness is many things. But increasingly it seems a cover for careerism, profiteering and utter incompetence.
What turned the party of Harry Truman, JFK and even Bill Clinton into a woke neo-Maoist movement?
Class is fluid; race is immutable. So by fixating on race, the left believes that it can divide America into permanent victimizers and victims.
The military is not yet a revolutionary people’s army overseen by commissars. But it is getting there with politicized agendas that split the country in half and abandon the military’s traditional role of unifying in common purpose to defend America.
It was never really about racism, sexism or other isms.
Will China then wait us out, denying the obvious facts?
This time around, members of the left really believe that “by any means necessary” is no mere slogan.
During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded to them.
The American people are slowly regaining their senses after the epidemic of mass hysteria that gripped the nation last year.
For the left, Israel’s current strength, confidence and success mean it cannot be seen as a victim, but only as a victimizer.