One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed $500 million.
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com. His columns appears Sundays in the Review-Journal.
The Ukrainian and Israeli wars are similar and yet also different conflicts — but in more ways than we can imagine.
Still, it remains somewhat unclear why Biden and his Homeland Security chief destroyed what Trump had achieved. Why would they ensure such misery for both American hosts and millions of illegal immigrants?
If the administration must speak, Washington should do so by conveying disproportionality and unpredictability.
Her rope-a-dope strategy could be to remain a “backup” candidate.
Sometimes real, sometimes hyped crises lead to these contrived left-wing hysterias — such as the Jan. 6, 2021, violent “armed insurrection” or the “fascist” “ultra-MAGA” threat.
Democrats are tearing apart the country in a manner not seen since the Civil War era — apparently convinced democracy cannot be trusted and so itself must be sacrificed as the price of destroying Trump.
Former President Claudine Gay’s removal is not the end of Harvard’s dilemma. Rather, it is the beginning.
The perils of nihilism.
At the present rate, a Stanford law degree, a Harvard political science major or a Yale social science BA will soon scare off employers and the general public at large.
Why did the doctrinaire left, the youth of the Democratic Party, and the campuses outdo each other in their antisemitic venom toward Israel?
Europeans grew louder and whinier the less relevant they became.
Hamas’s savage precivilizational strategy to defeat Israel hinged on doing disproportionate things Israel either cannot or will not do.
If we are not careful, what supposedly cannot happen again most surely will.
