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Victor Wembanyama’s new Nike shoes look like something an actual alien would wear

Victor Ouenbayama’s summer is about to begin. The 20-year-old prodigy will represent his native France and be one of the faces of the 2024 Paris Olympics. France just won the silver medal in men’s basketball at the last Tokyo Olympics, but the addition of the 7’5″ super freak will raise expectations even higher. After the […]

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Can We Let The Voters Decide — Not The FBI, CIA, DOJ, Lawyers, Prosecutors And Judges?

When Donald Trump appeared to be gaining ground in the 2016 Republican primaries, Democrats concluded that they couldn’t expect Americans to choose “the right thing” while waiting for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. What followed was eight years of extrajudicial efforts to neutralize Donald Trump, candidate, president, former president and candidate again. All these relentless efforts […]

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like many Russian bureaucrats who struggled with excessive smoking, drinking and weight gain, he aged prematurely. And like many of them, his disability did not cause him to abdicate. In his late 60s and early 70s, Brezhnev’s growing […]

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 […]