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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Classical Choices
Is it to be Salamis, Thebes, Thermopylae—or Melos?
By Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
March 13, 2022
Several pincers are poised to envelop increasingly damaged Ukrainian cities. The initial euphoria that Vladimir Putin’s surprise shock-and-awe assault failed may be waning, even as Ukraine inflicts historic damage...
Assaults on the
Idea of America
and
Ignorance of the Fragility of the United States
By Victor Davis Hanson
October 21, 2021
(Emphasis added)
As the 2020 election season began, the New York Times, promised its readers a recalibration of American history called "The 1619 Project." The ensuing series of essays and media kits had a twofold ...
