VDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part Five: The...
Victor Davis Hanson Hernán Cortés was an unlikely conqueror of civilizations. He was born into a middle-class Castilian family, leaving Spain just 12 years after the European discovery of the New...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe End of Everything in the Here and Now? Part Six: Is...
Victor Davis Hanson We saw on October 7 unprovoked mass slaughter, rape, torture, mutilation, decapitation, and hostage-taking, and agreed that human nature has not changed much since the era of the...
View ArticleVDH UltraIsrael Is Not Losing the War. Part One
Israel is not losing its wars against radical Islamic terrorists in Gaza, at least not as we are led to believe by the Western media and political apparatuses. The usual pessimism runs something like...
View ArticleVDH UltraIsrael Is Not Losing the War. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson At home, we have seen all sorts of violent campus and street pro-Hamas demonstrations over the last nine months. Their method is to cause the greatest disruption in commutes, or to...
View ArticleVDH UltraIsrael Is Not Losing the War. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson So no wonder about 80 percent of the American people support Israel’s efforts against Hamas, a margin that has stayed more or less constant since October 7, despite global elite and...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe Renewed Epidemic of Trump-Derangement Projectionism. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Biden’s favorability is now consistently below 40 percent. His brain and body freezes are routine. Biden’s word salad and fantasy spins do not even merit the news. His lectures...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe Renewed Epidemic of Trump-Derangement Projectionism. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Much of the screaming about tyranny, Trump fascism, internment camps, etc., is also ego-driven. AOC in her selfies believes that she must be Trump’s numero uno target (No one cares...
View ArticleVDH UltraFeverish Dreaming About Covid with Covid. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson I just returned from leading 160 travelers on a tour to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The tour went quite well. The participants were especially...
View ArticleVDH UltraFeverish Dreaming About Covid with Covid. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Seven months later, on the eve of my 2022 tour to Israel, in early May, I got Covid 2.0, again after a large public event. (On book tours and at formal speaking dinners, one is...
View ArticleVDH UltraFeverish Dreaming About Covid with Covid. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson With Covid, you stare at the ceiling, with ice on your feverous head, and begin trying to account for all your life’s excesses and recklessness that supposedly inevitably led to...
View ArticleVDH UltraFeverish Dreaming About Covid with Covid. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson I once stayed in an old house on one professorial stint. The basement had a sewage leak. No one knew of it, given it had been locked up for the summer. When I arrived, the house was...
View ArticleVDH UltraWhat Should a President Trump Do? Part One: The Border
Victor Davis Hanson One would expect Trump first to finish the wall as soon as possible, even if that entailed extending it to the Gulf and through difficult terrain, fixing weak spots in the existing...
View ArticleVDH UltraWhat Should a President Trump Do? Part Two: The Border (Continued)
Victor Davis Hanson Next, who of the long-residing illegal aliens would be eligible for legal-resident status, and from there choose or not choose to apply on their own for U.S. citizenship? Most would...
View ArticleVDH UltraWhat Should a President Trump Do? Part Three: Abroad
Victor Davis Hanson Trump’s greatest challenge is to restore deterrence—blown up by Biden after Kabul, the Chinese balloon fiasco, the Gazan and Ukrainian wars, and his periodic Corn-Pop-like empty...
View ArticleVDH UltraWhat Should a President Trump Do? Part Four: The Budget
Victor Davis Hanson The U.S. is broke. It owes over $35 trillion, mostly to American and Chinese bond and T-bill holders. The interest alone costs nearly $1 trillion, larger than the annual defense...
View ArticleVDH UltraWhat Should a President Trump Do? Part Five: The Budget (Continued)
Victor Davis Hanson Too many wealthy citizens only pay capital gains taxes at a reduced rate rather than income tax on their annual revenues. And too many of the one percent have the wherewithal to pay...
View ArticleVDH UltraWhat Should a President Trump Do? Part Six: DEI/Tribalism/Woke
Victor Davis Hanson The United States until recently was the world’s only multiracial, well-functioning, large democracy/constitutional republic. India and Brazil are plagued by poverty, violence, and...
View ArticleVDH UltraWhat Should a President Trump Do? Part Seven: DEI/Tribalism/Woke...
Victor Davis Hanson DEI casts suspicion on all hiring. So, the public asks: Was that fly-around on a recent flight due to a DEI pilot or aircraft controller? Is the anti-Semitic epidemic at elite...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe Long Road to November. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson We still do not know whether most culpability for the failed security during the Trump attempted assassination was the fault of the Secret Service, the FBI, local law enforcement,...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe Long Road to November. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson The implosion of the post-debate Biden incumbent candidacy marks one of the most unusual and duplicitous events in presidential history. Since 2019, most media and Democratic elites...
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