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Death Threats Come With the Job of a Public Figure

In this first two weeks of the Trump new tenure, there’s just been a flurry of news and disinformation. We’ve heard about all of these... Read...

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The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Mexico — Friend, Enemy, Neutral, Or Something Else?

So, what should be the U.S. response to Mexico’s passive-aggressive policies?

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The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Mexico -- Friend, Enemy, Neutral, or Something Else?

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Townhall

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The Left Doesn’t Like Kash Patel Because He Exposed Its Lies

The Left Doesn’t Like Kash Patel Because He Exposed Its Lies

I want to talk today about the current nomination process, specifically Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s designate to be director of FBI. It’s...

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The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

The Harder the Change, the Tougher the Vote

The Harder the Change, the Tougher the Vote

We’re in a weekslong process of confirming nominees of the Donald Trump administration for these 13 Cabinet-level positions. And I think it may go...

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The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

The Left’s Sin Is of Omission and Lost Opportunity

The Left’s Sin Is of Omission and Lost Opportunity

Over these first few days of the Trump administration, we’ve seen these bold measures. And it’s starting to incur a big backlash, or anger, or......

26.01.2025 5

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left

The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left

Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the Left’s hysterical style of attacking him no longer worked. After a decade of this unhinged......

24.01.2025 3

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Addicted, Petty, And Hysterical Left

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Addicted, Petty, And Hysterical Left

Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the Left’s hysterical style of attacking Trump no longer worked.

24.01.2025 7

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left

The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left
24.01.2025 30

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Elite Europeans Losing Influence Resent Trump

Elite Europeans Losing Influence Resent Trump

This is the week of the inauguration of Donald Trump, but it also coincides, not just with Martin Luther King’s birthday—on the same day as......

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The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

America Awakes From Its Coma

America Awakes From Its Coma

Victor Davis Hanson, the renowned American historian and political commentator, has joined The Daily Signal as a senior contributor. This transcript...

23.01.2025 30

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Biden Is Not Like Ike, He Gave Soros the Medal of Freedom but Warns of Oligarchs

Biden Is Not Like Ike, He Gave Soros the Medal of Freedom but Warns of Oligarchs

The word “oligarchs” is in the news lately. I think all of you may have heard or tuned in to Joe Biden’s farewell address, where... Read More...

22.01.2025 9

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

The Secret to the Entire Trump Paradox

The Secret to the Entire Trump Paradox

Victor Davis Hanson, the renowned American historian and political commentator, has joined The Daily Signal as a senior contributor. This transcript...

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The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Biden Responsible for Single Greatest Disaster in Foreign Policy in a Century

Biden Responsible for Single Greatest Disaster in Foreign Policy in a Century

Victor Davis Hanson, the renowned American historian and political commentator, has joined The Daily Signal as a senior contributor. This transcript...

20.01.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Deluded Biden, blind to his foreign failures, leaves Trump a world in flames

Deluded Biden, blind to his foreign failures, leaves Trump a world in flames

Joe Biden in the last week of his presidency felt he had to lie or mislead about almost every one of his foreign policy "achievements" -- yet any...

19.01.2025 80

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Biden’s Bizarro World Of Foreign Policy ‘Achievements’

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Biden’s Bizarro World Of Foreign Policy ‘Achievements’

Add it all up, and Biden would have done better to have just kept quiet and departed his failed presidency in shame.

17.01.2025 9

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy ‘Achievements’

Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy ‘Achievements’

Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America’s stature abroad....

17.01.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Screaming and Yelling: My Takeaway From Democrats’ Behavior During the Hegseth, Bondi Confirmation Hearings

Screaming and Yelling: My Takeaway From Democrats’ Behavior During the Hegseth, Bondi Confirmation Hearings

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian and Daily Signal senior contributor Victor...

17.01.2025 30

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Where Did MAGA Come From?

Where Did MAGA Come From?

Where did MAGA come from? Ronald Reagan used the term in 1980, “Make America Great.” Bill Clinton used it in 1992. In 2011, Donald Trump... Read...

16.01.2025 7

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Trump’s ‘Art of the Troll’ on Canada, Greenland, ‘Gulf of America,‘ Panama Canal

Trump’s ‘Art of the Troll’ on Canada, Greenland, ‘Gulf of America,‘ Panama Canal

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian and Daily Signal senior contributor Victor...

15.01.2025 40

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Ideological Taboos Stymie Getting to Root Causes of LA Wildfires Disaster

Ideological Taboos Stymie Getting to Root Causes of LA Wildfires Disaster

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian and Daily Signal senior contributor Victor...

14.01.2025 10

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our long national Biden nightmare is almost over. Trump Invictus is now liberated

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our long national Biden nightmare is almost over. Trump Invictus is now liberated

The train wreck of the last four years was force-multiplied by Biden’s own feebleness, masked by the most scandalous media-politico conspiracy of...

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Fox News

Victor Davis Hanson

A Europe in crisis needs a Trump reset to attack its problems— like it or not

A Europe in crisis needs a Trump reset to attack its problems— like it or not

The US is beginning to mimic Europe's immigration, energy and economic pathologies — yet in the next four years, Donald Trump's renewal could help...

12.01.2025 10

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Deport Millions, Finish the Wall, Tax Remittances, and End Birthright Citizenship

Deport Millions, Finish the Wall, Tax Remittances, and End Birthright Citizenship

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian and Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor...

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The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

America and Europe Can Hang Together—or Hang Separately

America and Europe Can Hang Together—or Hang Separately

Consider these European and American binaries. On Dec. 20, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in Magdeburg,...

10.01.2025 6

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: America And Europe Can Hang Together — Or Hang Separately

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: America And Europe Can Hang Together — Or Hang Separately

Consider these European and American binaries.

10.01.2025 5

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

America and Europe Can Hang Together -- Or Hang Separately

10.01.2025 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

California Inferno Was ‘Preventable.’ Blame Malfeasance of Newsom, Bass for Catastrophe.

California Inferno Was ‘Preventable.’ Blame Malfeasance of Newsom, Bass for Catastrophe.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian and Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis...

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The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

The Complexities, Nuances of Trump’s Jacksonian Approach to Foreign Policy

The Complexities, Nuances of Trump’s Jacksonian Approach to Foreign Policy

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian Victor Davis Hanson. Have you noticed recently...

09.01.2025 30

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

WWII Allies refused to destroy Germany — now it’s ruined itself with leftist policies

Less than a year before the end of World War II, then US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar...

05.01.2025 10

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Germany’s New Morgenthau Plan

Less than a year before the end of World War II, then-U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar...

03.01.2025 9

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Germany's New Morgenthau Plan

Less than a year before the end of World War II, then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar...

03.01.2025 9

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

A New Year’s Blessing

Après Biden, “L’audace, l’audace, encore l’audace, toujours l’audace!” To paraphrase mixed French 18th-century memorable quotations: After Biden,...

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The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Why Trump’s second-term start is vastly better than his first-term launch

In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35% and 40%. He would average only about 41%...

29.12.2024 10

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election?

In the weeks before his 2016 Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35% and 40%. He would average only about 41% approval over...

26.12.2024 9

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Last straw: New Jersey drone drama shows we’re fed up with government gaslighting

New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the...

22.12.2024 9

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Dronomania

New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the...

20.12.2024 3

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

What Was So Different This Time About Trump's Election?

In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35 and 40 percent. He would average only about 41%...

20.12.2024 7

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Blame Barack: Obama’s lost mystique marks the end of a political era

Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering...

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

The Evaporation Of Barack Obama’s Mystique

Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering...

13.12.2024 6

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

The Evaporation of the Obama Mystique

Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination -- and thereafter played the whispering...

13.12.2024 7

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

What the Trump Nominees Have Not Done—and Will Not Do

Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the Left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet...

06.12.2024 3

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What The Trump Nominees Have Not Done — And Will Not Do

Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet...

06.12.2024 2

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

What the Trump Nominees Have Not Done -- And Will Not Do

Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet...

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Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality

Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36% of Americans...

30.11.2024 7

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Colleges in crisis thanks to high costs and intolerant extremism

Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll found only 36% of Americans either expressed "a...

28.11.2024 4

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Universities Have A 2025 Rendezvous With Reality

Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of...

27.11.2024 5

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality

Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of...

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Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Another name for the Trump revolution: ‘Return to sanity’

We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Donald Trump's victory, far different from his first election in 2016. The supposed scripted...

24.11.2024 5

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

The Trump Counterrevolution is a Return to Sanity

We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after President Donald Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016. The orthodox...

23.11.2024 50

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson