The Byzantines never awakened in time to understand what they had become. Will Americans? By: Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness March 15, 2023 When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome….
The March Madness of the President Joe Biden’s political utility and near senility serve as exemptions for his often sexist, racist, and creepy riffs. By: Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness March 12, 2023 Another couple of weeks, another bout of madness from Joe Biden and his team. Of recent Biden delusions, consider: ü Biden went…
BUSINESSES: REGULATIONS, RULES, AND TAXES By: Marvin L. Covault, Lt Gen US Army retired, March 11. 2023 “We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods…
GREAT AMERICA Life Among the Ruins The few sowed the wind, and the many reaped their whirlwind. By Victor Davis Hanson March 6, 2023 American society is facing three existential crises not unlike those that overcame the late Roman, and a millennium later, terminal Byzantine, empires. Premodern Barbarism We are suffering an epidemic of premodern…
The Woke Wrecking Machine By: Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness March 2, 2023 Almost everything that has followed from the woke mass hysteria gripping the nation since 2020 has proved disastrous. Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result—history’s prescription for civilizational decline. If we continue with the woke hiring of administrators, air…
The Toxic Racialist Obsessions of Joe Biden Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness February 20, 2023 Joe Biden ran on “unity,” which is critical in a multiracial America. He vowed to heal the divisions supposedly sown by Donald Trump. Instead, he is proving to be the most polarizing president in modern memory. Often his racialist rhetoric…
The Epoch Times Epoch Health Biden Admin Negotiates Deal to Give WHO Authority Over US Pandemic Policies New international health accord avoids necessary Senate approval News Analysis The Biden administration is preparing to sign up the United States to a “legally binding” accord with the World Health Organization (WHO) that would give this Geneva-based UN…
February 18, 2023 Special Edition I am sending General Covault’s fine essay out as a special edition in the hopes that those of my subscribers who have connections with movers and shakers in the Republican Party will pass along the General’s well-crafted program in preparation for an election that will almost certainly write the destiny…
Our Edith Wilson By: Victor Davis Hanson February 8, 2023 Jill Biden apparently is studying the career of another progressive icon, First Lady Edith Wilson. Edith (also a younger second wife to her widowed husband) went from First Lady to de facto President from October 1919 to March 1921, after Woodrow Wilson suffered an incapacitating…
Townhall.com There’s a Problem in the Upper Reaches of Our Military Victor Davis Hanson Sep 02, 2021 The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com. It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist…
The Real Differences Between the Biden and Trump Troves By: Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness January 26, 2023 Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled classified at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did Joe Biden at his various homes in Delaware. Yet otherwise, the comparisons between the two cases, contrary to…
How About a Little Context for Pence’s Classified Docs? The former vice president is the latest to discover classified material that was handled inappropriately. By: Nate Jackson The Patriot Post January 25, 2023 Mike Pence is a truly unique politician because he places great value on honor and integrity. He’s the same guy, after all,…