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VDH UltraWhat are Trump’s Arguments Against Canada and Mexico?

Victor Davis Hanson Canada. Part One Trump has been waging a running verbal battle with Canada. And it is based on four of his own pet peeves. One, he despises Canadian Liberal Party leader and Prime...

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VDH UltraWhat are Trump’s Arguments Against Canada and Mexico?

Mexico. Part Two Trump has four, far bigger, gripes with Mexico. They are more compelling than his Canadian squabbles. One, suddenly Mexico’s trade surpluses are an astounding $170 billion or more....

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VDH UltraThe Real Dangers of DEI. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson The evil of the diversity/equity/inclusion industry—costing the U.S. more than $1 trillion in its last, most radical four years of implementation—was not its fraud alone. We...

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VDH UltraThe Real Dangers of DEI. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Finally, I would discuss options for the various excellent students, most of them either Hispanic, Asian, black, or poor white. Some wished to teach, and we sought to enhance their...

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VDH UltraFinally, a Ten-point Democrat Agenda? Part One

Victor Davis Hanson After two months of hysterics, street theater, and virtue-signaling moralizing we can finally detect the Democrats’ counter-agenda. It really exists and seems based on ten simple...

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VDH UltraFinally, a Ten-point Democrat Agenda? Part Two

Six, side with 40 percent of Americans who demand support for Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” with a blank check to the Zelenskyy government. Damn any who propose a ceasefire as Putin puppets....

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VDH UltraOur Problem with China. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Much of Trump’s widely diverse foreign and domestic initiatives have something to do with China, which he sees not just as America’s chief rival but as bent on world domination at...

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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...

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VDH 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...

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VDH 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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VDH UltraAbsurdities of the Age. Part Two

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...

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VDH 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,...

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VDH 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...

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VDH 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...

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VDH 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...

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VDH 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...

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VDH 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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VDH UltraTheir California Dreams, Our Nightmares, Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson The coastal elites gave us sanctuary cities and a sanctuary state. They oppose deportations (remember the campaign videos of Kamala Harris chanting and demonstrating to stop federal...

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VDH UltraTo the Last Ukrainian—or Not? Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Ukraine has recently pulled off some spectacular successes, such as the attack that damaged the key Kerch bridge linking Crimea to Russia. If permanently derailed, the loss may...

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VDH UltraTo the Last Ukrainian—or Not? Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson If Putin really is grinding down Ukraine and if it cannot through drones either stop him or prevent a theater-wide escalation, Ukraine might look back to history for guidance—and...

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