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Today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries

The new Jacobins have arrived.

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s, Bessent’s ‘Anaconda’ Strategy Is Tightening Around Iran

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The Daily Signal

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Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s 3 Possible Responses to Trump’s New Pressure

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The Daily Signal

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Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Is Dragging America Back to the Dark Ages

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The Daily Signal

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Progressive Regression and the New Medievalism

Progressive Regression and the New Medievalism

For most people, the story of the medieval world was one of cramped cities, constant violent crime, and episodic outbreaks of deadly plagues — the...

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Townhall

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Victor Davis Hanson: America Looks Nothing Like She Did 5 Years Ago—And That’s a Good Thing

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02.09.2026 3

The Daily Signal

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Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Changed Names. Trump Does It, and Suddenly It’s Tyranny.

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01.09.2026 3

The Daily Signal

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Victor Davis Hanson: Carney Picked a Trade War With Trump—But Why?

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01.09.2026 5

The Daily Signal

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Victor Davis Hanson: Canada Is Picking the Wrong Fight With Trump

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31.08.2026 3

The Daily Signal

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Victor Davis Hanson: California Was the American Dream. What Happened?

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The Daily Signal

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Were the Bombs of August 1945 'Demonic'?

Were the Bombs of August 1945 'Demonic'?

Did demons create the first atomic bombs? Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs,...

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Townhall

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Victor Davis Hanson: The Atomic Bombs Dropped in Japan Were Not Satanic

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27.08.2026 8

The Daily Signal

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Victor Davis Hanson: When the Left Ignores Federal Law and Sounds Like Neo-Confederates

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27.08.2026 8

The Daily Signal

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Victor Davis Hanson: We Need to Stop Letting in Ungrateful Immigrants

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26.08.2026 10

The Daily Signal

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Victor Davis Hanson: Why Trump Gets Results While Diplomats Fail

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25.08.2026 10

The Daily Signal

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Victor Davis Hanson: The Radical Left Wants to Destroy America and Rebuild It

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25.08.2026 10

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Hamas or Israeli Values?

Israel dominates the daily news in this 2026 midterm election year — almost always in a boring, fatiguing, negative light. Tens of thousands of...

20.08.2026 10

Townhall

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Loser leftists don’t change their minds — they just change the rules

The radical left's key agendas have never won majority support among the general public. In response, they never recalibrate — but seek to destroy...

17.08.2026 20

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Not Winning? Just Change the Rules

What binds the new Democratic Party to the new Democratic Socialists is a set of shared issues and values. That is, the radicalism of the Democrats in...

13.08.2026 10

Townhall

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Fresh proof that ‘Democratic Socialists’ will act like communists once elected

It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “Democratic Socialists” — once they find power. Indeed, the more the...

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New York Post

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Is 'Communist' No Longer a Slur?

It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of "Democratic Socialists" — once they find power. Indeed, the more the...

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Townhall

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Dems’ hatred of Trump created this socialist monster — and now it’s turning on them

This socialist moment is merely the logical culmination of years of boutique radicalism within the Democratic aristocracy.

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New York Post

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Democrats desperately seek working-class voters — but only offer shams

Democrats need the white working class to regain power, yet they both loathe and mock it. Presto: Invent a white working-class leftist.

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

The Left-Wing Unicorn Hunt for the White Male Working-Class Voter

The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996...

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Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

The World Made Anew

With a whimper rather than a bang, the world has become a different place than it was in January 2021, when Donald Trump left office. Almost...

16.07.2026 10

Townhall

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As Mamdani skewers America’s ‘dividers,’ he paints a picture of . . . HIMSELF

As is his custom, Mamdani speaks in stereotypes and generalities, offering few if any examples, all laced with his accustomed unctuous hypocrisy.

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New York Post

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Mamdani's Embittered Fourth of July Rant to America

Zohran Mamdani, New York's self-described socialist mayor, could not resist using the nation's 250th anniversary celebration to trash the...

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Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

The New Socialists—Elite, Ungrateful, and Toxic As Ever

Win some blue-state and blue-city races, and the cocky new socialist Jacobins believe that they have either already taken over the Democratic Party or...

02.07.2026 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Don't Forget the Broader Context of the Iranian Memorandum

The tentative "memorandum of understanding" with Iran has caused glee on the Left and furor among many on the Right. The Left might welcome...

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Townhall

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How California’s self-sabotage by the left made it a national disgrace

What happened to the nation's most richly naturally endowed, and once best-governed, state? The left took total control — and created a neo-feudal...

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Is California Reaching Critical Mass?

By any measure, California is a failed state—and a national embarrassment. Taxes? It has the highest income and gas taxes in the nation. Roads? A...

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Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

The most self-destructive pillars of lefty lunacy finally begin to fall

Increasingly, Americans, and indeed all Westerners, are saying no to green haranguers, gender and sex demagogues, the race-baiting industry, the...

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Stop Destroying Civilization!

In the #MeToo years, the Left's signature slogan was "Believe all women!" That directive was used to bolster Christine Blasey...

11.06.2026 20

Townhall

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Iran endgame nears — as Trump faces two stark choices

After three months of intermittent war, we see the realities of the conflict: Iran does not regard overwhelming military defeat on the battlefield as...

04.06.2026 20

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Iranian Endgames?

The Trump administration has bent over backward to negotiate an end to Iran's grand plans to develop nuclear weapons – before the June 2025...

04.06.2026 20

Townhall

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Israel-haters’ selective outrage exposes the hypocrisy of their lies

The libels of genocide and ethnic cleansing being cast at the Jewish state apply far more accurately to a host of other nations.

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New York Post

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Spare Us the Selective Outrage

Since October 7, we have been lectured nonstop about the supposedly singular sins of Israel. The campuses, the left-wing media, and the new Democratic...

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Townhall

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America Is Not Caught in a 'Thucydides Trap'!

The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article "The Thucydides Trap," argued that often in...

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Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: America Is Not Caught In A ‘Thucydides Trap’!

So, we are not caught in a 'Thucydides Trap.'

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The Daily Caller

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The ‘America-worst’ crowd cheers for China — but here’s what they forget

According to nearly every historical measure of power, the United States leads China by sizable margins — in wealth, economic output, fuel, food and...

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

America: The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

One American view of China – now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd – is that the...

20.05.2026 20

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

How the left’s ‘perfect storm’ infected America with Jew hate

Demographics, DEI and the woke Jacobin agenda produced the poisonous antisemitism now shredding the West.

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

The Four Horsemen of the New Antisemitism

Few predicted that blaming Israel and the Jews who support it would flare up in the early 21st century – and in America of all places, where there...

14.05.2026 20

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

How our ‘new’ Democratic Party is really a blast from the Jacobin past

Today, supporting Israel and calling for campuses to stop their institutionalized antisemitism is Democratic political suicide.

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live The Jacobins!

The new Jacobins destroyed the southern border.

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The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!

For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar...

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Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Same Old, Same Old: Target Trump

At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt — this time in full view...

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Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: From One Assassination Attempt To The Next —Mainstreaming Violence Against A President

So deep runs their hatred.vic

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The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

How the delusional Democrats are creating an alternate left-wing universe

The Democratic Party spins up its own version of reality — and demands upending the political system itself rather than working within it to appeal...

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Pseudo-Heroes

It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to either its generic Trump...

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Townhall

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