Category Archives: Politics

Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies By Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on October 23, 2019 by

  Critics now upset about abandoning our Kurdish friends demanded abject withdrawals — and the abandonment of friends — in Afghanistan and Iraq.   Outrage met Donald Trump’s supposedly rash decision to pull back U.S. troops from possible confrontational zones … Continue reading →

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Christopher Columbus deserves to stay in his rightful place By Laurence Bergreen

Posted on October 14, 2019 by

  Christopher Columbus has been coming under fire for decades, and lately Mayor de Blasio hasn’t ruled out scrapping the iconic 1892 statue of the explorer, in Columbus Circle, as a possible “symbol of hate.” But if Columbus were to … Continue reading →

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Review of An Army At Dawn

Posted on September 20, 2019 by

  In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, An Army At Dawn, The War in North Africa, 1942-43, Rick Atkinson takes an in-depth look at the fledgling Allied effort to gain a war footing in the attempt to confront the Nazi stronghold in … Continue reading →

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Is England Still Part of Europe? By Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on September 16, 2019 by

    Britain has a last chance to re-embrace the free-market democratic world that it once helped to create. British prime minister Boris Johnson is desperate to translate the British public’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union into … Continue reading →

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Trump Is Playing a Long Game With China

Posted on August 27, 2019 by

By Andy Puzder & Jim Talent August 24, 2019 America has the upper hand in the ongoing trade negotiations with China, and the temporary reprieve that President Trump recently gave the Chinese regime is only further proof that our strong … Continue reading →

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Victor Davis Hanson column: The war over America’s past is really about its future

Posted on July 22, 2019 by

  The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the United States. The San Francisco Board of Education recently voted to paint over, and … Continue reading →

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We Hold All the Cards in the Showdown with Iran By Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on June 24, 2019 by

  In May 2018, the Donald Trump Administration withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, popularly known as the Iran nuclear deal. The United States then ramped up sanctions on the Iranian theocracy to … Continue reading →

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