Victor Davis Hanson is without question the finest true conservative thought leader alive today. Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history.
JavaScript is required for full functionality on this website, but scripting is … So in this episode, recorded in late July as we anticipated a lapse, Victor discussed some of America’s premier generals, and what made them great — or, not so great. Statesmanship Award from the Claremont InstituteHoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson explains why President Trump does not need to alter the voting system and that President Trump should remind voters that he is the protector and guarantor of our constitutional frameworks. As many predicted, as testing spreads, and we get a better idea of the actual number and nature of cases, the death rate from coronavirus slowly but also seems to steadily decline. That act of iconoclasm will rectify things in the present, and thus there will not be another 500 annual homicides in Chicago.But once names are replaced and commemoration destroyed, what exactly follows the erased?The United States and indeed the Western world face four quite different challenges on the horizon: China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea.
The coronavirus and the ensuing panic, at least for a few more weeks, have stagnated the economy and scared global financial markets, accompanied by both collateral, […]Copyright © 2020 American Greatness. He is the William F. Buckley/Emmett Tyrell of his time, and his commentaries are not to be missed.
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Your gift helps advance ideas that promote a free society.Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history.Hanson was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (1992–93), a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University (1991–92), the annual Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Visiting Fellow in History at Hillsdale College (2004–), the Visiting Shifron Professor of Military History at the US Naval Academy (2002–3),and the William Simon Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University (2010).In 1991 he was awarded an American Philological Association Excellence in Teaching Award. The league’s geniuses weigh in with lectures on culture and politics. The Super Bowl, not the World Series, is America’s national sports event.The league survived all sorts of crises in the past. Victor Davis Hanson argues that the increasing specialization of intellectuals — along with a declining sense of humility — is making the expert class less and less reliable.Victor Davis Hanson looks at the social, political, economic, and international hurdles the US will face as we attempt to bounce back from the coronavirus.Victor Davis Hanson responds to a media outcry over one of his recent columns, looks at Chinese culpability for the spread of COVID-19, and describes the factors that will be necessary for America to get back on its feet.© The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University To believe that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers revealed too many contradictions, too many lacunae, too many episodes of timely amnesia, and too many unsubstantiated accusations in their testimonies was chauvinistically to […]he virus will teach us many things, but one lesson has already been relearned by the American people: there are two, quite different, types of wisdom. Put another way, the media’s “truth” is a good guide to what is abjectly false. At universities, protesters appeared like clockwork armed with signs to disrupt “unwelcome” speakers.