Last week, Israel denied access to Bethlehem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, one of the holiest sites in the Christian faith, on Palm Sunday, citing security concerns amid the conflict with Iran. Many expressed outrage. Nearly all ignored the risk.” Other topics include the “No Kings” protests that attack elected presidents such as Donald Trump […]
Victor Davis Hanson Legality. Constitutional lawyer Barack Obama was recently sounding off about an illegal war against Iran—in shameless and hypocritical fashion even for the 4-mansion owning, private-jet flying, green-community organizer. Does Obama remember that he bombed Libya for seven months without congressional authorization or even much consultation? He accomplished nothing but ensuring a wider
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The rare quick and total victory over an enemy at little cost often ensures unquestioned political support in modern consensual societies. In most cases, however, especially in the Western world, ongoing military success or failure is adjudicated through the lens of politics—in a way sometimes at odds with the reality
Victor Davis Hanson The new radical base of the Democrat party does not particularly like the existing U.S., not AOC and her Squad, not Bernie Sanders, and not the various ethnic and racial congressional caucuses. In their view, the only way to regain power is to tear down the house of us all and then
Victor Davis Hanson provides viewers with an update to on forthcoming book, The Counterrevolution: The Rise and Fall of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement, as well as recent comments Vice President JD Vance made on the The Benny Johnson Show, where he alleged that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., committed immigration fraud, and how President
President Donald Iran has Democrats between a rock and a hard place. The only way they can win popular support in their ongoing feud with Republicans over funding for the Department of Homeland Security is to protest ICE. That means going where ICE is: The airports. Picture this: Your run of the mill leftwing protester
VDH and Sami discuss the killing of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old freshman at Loyola University, in Chicago and criticize Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s sanctuary-state stance, delayed response, and reluctance to cooperate with ICE, arguing Democrats downplay victims and shift blame to Trump while crime rises amid gun restrictions. Share This
Four weeks in, Victor Davis Hanson lays out objectives and restraints in the ongoing “Iran War” and details why the Iranian theocracy must be decapitated now rather than later. Share This
The tragic shooting of a Loyola University freshman last week highlighted Chicago’s serious need for ICE to remove illegal immigrants from its streets. By making Chicago a sanctuary city, Gov. J. B. Pritzker can’t blame President Trump for the tragedy, especially when Trump has continually offered to help make the city safer by deploying the
Victor Davis Hanson The longest shutdown in congressional history last autumn achieved almost nothing other than hurting the Trump economic agenda—and, indeed, the fourth quarter 2025 annualized GDP was later revised downward due to the shutdown. Now again in 2026 there have been two additional shutdowns, the second still continuing and already the second longest