VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Ukraine And The Winter War, 1939-1940
Early in World War II, on November 30, 1939, Soviet forces launched a massive surprise attack on Finland, ultimately overwhelming the Finnish forces, who were nearly three times as numerous. In 1940, the Soviet Union’s population was 50 times that of Finland. Finland’s former anti-Soviet ally, Nazi Germany, betrayed Finland because of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact […]
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Stop The Ukrainian Meat Grinder?
Nearly eleven months ago, in August 2023, The New York Times reported that U.S. officials had estimated that some 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians had been killed, wounded or missing in the then 18-month Ukrainian War. Both Russia and Ukraine underreport their losses. Hundreds of thousands of additional casualties have followed in the 28 months of […]
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The West Is Sick Of The New Woke Jihadism
What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting? What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming parks and rampaging in the streets really angry about? Occupations? They could care less that the Islamist Turkish government still stations 40,000 troops in occupied Cyprus. No one is protesting […]
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Myth That Biden Had Nothing To Do With The Prosecutions Of Trump
The five criminal and civil prosecutions of former President Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Joe Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them. But Biden has long let it be known that he was frustrated with his own Department of Justice’s federal prosecutors for their tardiness in […]
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Revolutionary Times
Sometimes unexpected and dramatic events strip away the thin covering of respectability and convention, exposing and negating long-existing but hitherto hidden pathologies. Events over the past three years, such as the destruction of our southern border, the October 7th massacre and subsequent war in Gaza, campus protests, the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, and the systematic […]
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Loose Talk About The End Of Everything
After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin issued a bizarre one-sentence statement: “A nuclear war cannot be won and a nuclear war should never be fought.” No one would disagree, even if multiple officials from both hypocritical governments had previously […]
The Democrats are ‘unrecognizable’: Victor Davis Hanson
Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss the Democrats’ identity crisis. source
California winery oowner, Mark Hanson, accused of raping sister, Hilary McKean
The owner of a famous California winery has been accused in a lawsuit that alleges he raped and sexually assaulted his sister over a six-year period when the brothers were children. Hilary McKean, 60, is suing her brother Mark Hanson, 63, alleging repeated abuse while they were growing up together in the 1970s. Ms. McKean […]
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Try A Little Honesty About Israel
Scan the news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protesters. Read their demands and manifestos. Let’s sort out the confusion created by the Biden administration after October 7th. Here are their 10 most common lies about October 7th and the war that followed. “Progressive Hamas” American gay and transgender student protesters will be in deadly […]
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Can The Current Universities Be Saved?
America’s elite higher education — whose global excellence has long been unquestioned — is facing a perfect storm. The declining number of applicants, rising tuition costs, student poverty, collapsing standards, and an increasingly politicized faculty reflect the collapse of the university system. The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no […]