VDH UltraThe Problem with China. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Is China already unbeatable? In just 40 years, China has created the second-largest economy in the world. Its military is the second(?) strongest military in the world. It is...
View ArticleVDH UltraThoughts On Trade Deficits—Irrelevant, Dangerous, or Advantageous? —...
Victor Davis Hanson Ultra Subcriber Consider the massive increase in federal spending in the 21st century, which some may call the greatest “stimulus” package in history. Did printing and pouring all...
View ArticleVDH UltraAbsurdities of the Age. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson The Stock Market Entitlement Complex On Friday, April 24, the stock market closed about 40,000 on the Dow Jones, or where it was variously just recently between May and August 2024....
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Victor Davis Hanson Firing Generals and Defense Board Members The media went crazy when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., and now...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe Failure of Modernism, Part One
Victor Davis Hanson First, what is modernism? In a word, it was the rejection of traditionalism in every imaginable aspect. Starting in the mid-eighteenth century, the trend accelerated in art,...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe Failure of Modernism, Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Yet it was in popular culture and the university where the real damage of modernism was found. The repulsion in the 1920s against all the hierarchies and protocols that had led to...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe Failure of Modernism, Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson Modernism gave us a general coarseness of culture. Why do mostly leftwing politicians now routinely cut videos where senators and house members use the sh*t and f*ck words? I like...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe Failure of Modernism, Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson Why is modernism never held to account, its results judged, its costs compared to its benefits? Does anyone doubt that a Yale BA graduate of 1960 was far better trained than his...
View ArticleVDH UltraTheir California Dreams, Our Nightmares, Part One
Victor Davis Hanson California has become for some time a one-party state: no Republican statewide office holders; supermajority of Democrats in both state legislatures; only nine Republican...
View ArticleVDH UltraTheir California Dreams, Our Nightmares, Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Consider the following four examples: 1) Massive solar and wind projects, while dismantling hydroelectric, nuclear, and natural gas generation, spiked electricity costs to over 30...
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