Posted 12/14/2022 in Victor Davis Hanson,
Our Parasitic Generation
Yes, there is a lot of ruin in great nations.
But even America is by now running low on it.
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
December 11, 2022
"Be assured young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation." — Adam Smith
Are we sure that there is all that much ruin left in the ...
Posted 10/28/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,
The Switcheroos
of the Two Parties
The party of old left-wing progressives has
Become one of rich regressives. And once
country club Republicans are becoming
a party of middle-class populists.
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
October 26, 2022
Our two parties have both changed, and that explains why one will win, ...
Posted 08/10/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,
Nancy Pelosi’s Childlike Diplomacy Mirrors
America’s Childlike Posture Toward China
The Chinese have done and will do a
great deal of damage to America,
but not nearly as much as
we have done to ourselves.
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
August 7, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s sin was not in ...
Posted 07/03/2022 in Opinions, Political, Victor Davis Hanson,
America Is More Fragile
Than the Left Understands
Like a stunned adolescent whose reckless incompetence totaled the family car,
The Left seems shocked that
America proved so fragile after all.
"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation." — Adam Smith
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
June 26, 2022
The ...
Posted 07/01/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,
The Cry-Baby Leftist Mind
How odd that leftists are destroying the very customs
and traditions whose loss will come back to haunt them
when Democrats lose Congress in November.
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
June 29, 2022
Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority.
Consequently, their ...
Posted 06/10/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,
The Subordinate Citizen
Americans feel that ordinary citizens like themselves
who follow the rules are treated more harshly by
their government than are both noncitizens
and our progressive elites.
By Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
June 8, 2022
I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. ...
Posted 06/09/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,
The Sovietization of American Life
Behind all our disasters there looms an ideology,
a creed that ignores cause and effect in the real world—
without a shred of concern for the damage done
to those outside the nomenklatura.
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
June 5, 2022
One day historians will look back at the...
Posted 05/16/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,
Imagine the Unimaginable
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
May 12, 2022
Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable.
Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power.
In ...
Posted 05/16/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,
Losing the People? Then Change the Rules
It is not just the court the Left is targeting. Long-standing institutions and even constitutional directives are now fair game.
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
May 5, 2022
Court-packing — the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes — used to be a dirty ...
Posted 04/06/2022 in Victor Davis Hanson,
he Nihilism of the Left
In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it.
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
April 3, 2022
The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent American history when the hard Left has operated all the levers of the ...