Articles by Victor Davis Hanson
Amob of protesters associated with the radical left-wing group Antifa swarmed the private residence of Fox News host Tucker Carlson on the night of Nov. 7. They yelled, "Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!" The mob's apparent aim was to catch Mr. Carlson's family inside and so terrify them that he might temper his conservative views. Only Mr. Carlson's wife was home at the time. She locked herself in a pantry and called police.
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November 14, 2018
Shares The First World War ended 100 years ago this month on Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. Nearly 20 million people had perished since the war began on July 28, 1914.
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November 7, 2018
Shares What makes citizens obey the law is not always their sterling character. Instead, fear of punishment — the shame of arrest, fines or imprisonment — more often makes us comply with laws. Law enforcement is not just a way to deal with individual violators but also a way to remind society at large that there can be no civilization without legality.
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October 31, 2018
Shares For progressives, the looming midterm elections apparently should not hinge on a booming economy, a near-record-low unemployment rate, a strong stock market and unprecedented energy production. Instead, progressives hope that race and gender questions overshadow pocketbook issues.
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October 24, 2018
Shares The provocative Donald Trump certainly seems to be disliked by a majority of African-American professional athletes, cable news hosts, academics and the Black Congressional caucus. Yet there are subtle but increasing indications that his approval among other African-Americans may be reaching historic highs for a modern Republican president.
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October 17, 2018
Shares Mr. Kissinger's approach was sometimes called "triangulation." But distilled down to its essence, the phrase meant ensuring that China and Russia were not friendlier to each other than each was to the United States. Given that the Soviet Union was much stronger than China at the time, Mr. Kissinger especially courted Beijing.
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October 10, 2018
Shares The polarizing atmosphere of the university has now spread to Congress.
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October 3, 2018
Shares Are there any guiding principles that can make sense of the sensational news that now overwhelms the senses seemingly every hour?
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September 26, 2018
Shares Americans keep dividing into two hostile camps.
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September 19, 2018
Shares Liberals subject him to unprecedented venom because they don't like his committee's findings
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September 12, 2018
Shares Using funerals for political purposes has a long, but not distinguished, tradition. In 44 B.C. eulogist Mark Antony claimed to Roman mourners that he came to bury Caesar. But his speech created a frenzy and ended up ensuring a death warrant for the once "honorable" Brutus.
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September 5, 2018
Shares Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation was star-crossed from the start. His friend and successor as FBI director, James Comey, by his own admission prompted the investigation — with the deliberate leaking of classified memos about his conversations with President Donald Trump to the press.
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August 29, 2018
Shares On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium-fueled atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, another U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 repeated the attack on Nagasaki, Japan, with an even more powerful plutonium bomb.
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August 22, 2018
Shares The New York Times recently hired as a writer and board member Sarah Jeong. The Times knew that in recent years Ms. Jeong had posted a series of unapologetically racist anti-white tweets. She had offered wisdom such as #CancelWhitePeople and expressed hatred for males.
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August 15, 2018
Shares The media are furious that President Trump serially decries "fake news." He often rants that journalists who traffic in it are "enemies of the people."
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August 8, 2018
Shares "Make America Great Again" is the oft-caricatured slogan of the Donald Trump presidency. When President Trump was elected, he boasted of jump-starting the economy to achieve an annual economic growth rate of 4 percent.
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August 1, 2018
Shares Donald Trump recently ignited yet another firestorm by hedging when asked whether protecting the newest NATO member, tiny Montenegro, might be worth risking a war.
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July 25, 2018
Shares During the recent NATO summit meeting, a rumbustious Donald Trump tore off a thin scab of niceties to reveal a deep and old NATO wound — one that has predated President Trump by nearly 30 years and goes back to the end of the Cold War.
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July 18, 2018
Shares Critics of Donald Trump claim there is no rhyme or reason to his foreign policy. But if there is a consistency, it might be called reciprocity.
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July 11, 2018
Shares Key Trump administration officials have been confronted at restaurants. Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, urged protestors to hound Trump officials at restaurants, gas stations or department stores.
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July 4, 2018
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