VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Graveyard Of Destructive Ideas OPINION Victor Davis HansonContributor February 26, 2026 How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support–and are not Western nations supposedly rationally governed? There is usually a multi-step process on the road to these self-destructive fits of society-wide insanity. The suicidal impulse so often begins with left-leaning researchers in elite universities (i.e., the tenured in search of a novel, grant-getting theory). They begin insisting that a new existential threat requires immediate government intervention, novel legislation, ample
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Liberal liars illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Tiimes By Don Feder – Sunday, December 28, 2025 OPINION: Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie that’s big enough often enough, people will believe it. Liberal lies are soothing. They create an alternate reality and play into popular prejudices, including hatred of the rich, oil companies and Jews. The big lies of 2025 included: Trump is responsible for the affordability crisis: President Trump has been in office for less than a year. Joseph R. Biden was president for four years. Mr. Biden added $6 trillion in new spending, and inflation was as
Read more ... →(Jacek Wojnarowski/Dreamstime) By George MentzTuesday, 16 December 2025 This essay addresses a series of 12 persistent blind spots within major American and European media coverage of geopolitics, economics, and public policy. These omissions are not minor errors of emphasis; they represent systemic failures to engage honestly with facts that materially affect public understanding and democratic decision-making. These blind spots are not confined to fringe commentary; they appear daily in some of the most influential publications and broadcasters shaping elite opinion. If one reads The Week, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Fortune, the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, or
Read more ... →MMApril 29, 2025 By Sha’i ben-Tekoaardd Why do Arabs chop off hands? The short answer to the question is that they suffer from a chronic plague of theft, a perennial social disease in their culture. The hand-chopping is an effort to limit the behavior. Not only is there no conscience in the culture to suppress the urge to steal, but there is even admiration for the thief who gets away with his crime. That admiration goes to the very roots of Islam. In 1939, a year judged by cineasts to be Hollywood’s greatest year ever, one film was The Thief of Baghdad with
Read more ... →U.S. President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. (Susan Walsh/AP/2019 file) By Perry V. Kalajian | Wednesday, 05 February 2025 01:20 PM E Let’s separate the facts from the fiction on tariffs. While campaigning for the office of president and since, Donald Trump has made various statements with respect to the imposition of significant tariffs on China and other countries around the world. I believe that he has mentioned these high numbers to attract attention to himself and his presidency, while highlighting the trade imbalance issue. Trump has been trying to create
Read more ... →We fixate only on the irrelevant that we think we can address while ignoring the existential we know we no longer can solve. By Victor Davis Hanson April 10, 2023 The last few weeks, the world had been writing off the United States as either crazy or irrelevant as it watches America cannibalize itself. Friends tremble at our sudden decline. Enemies rejoice. Neutrals make the necessary adjustments to join the ascendant non-American side. The symptoms of our decline abroad appear everywhere. The more Joe Biden brags about the crippling oil sanctions on Russia, friends like India and allies like Japan ignore
Read more ... →BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON 12:01 AM ON JANUARY 05, 2023 AP Photo/Susan Walsh What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased? Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do
Read more ... →VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Anton Novoderezhkin/SPUTNIK/AFP/Getty Images/TNS May 12, 202210:25 AM ET Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable. Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power. In desperation, Russia’s impaired and unhinged leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin, now talks trash about the likelihood of nuclear war. A 79-year-old President Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing nuclear adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who should be removed from power. After
Read more ... →TRUMP: EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO NEW WORLD ORDER. . . . By James D Veltmeyer, MD The ongoing attacks by the political establishment on President Donald Trump which began even before he was elected are without parallel in history. The savagery, frenzy, and outright hysteria displayed by the President’s enemies within the Democrat Party, the media, and the various power centers of the globalist elites have no prior precedent. This President has been spied on, lied about, made the subject of phony foreign dossiers, insulted, ridiculed, scorned, mocked and threatened. We have witnessed Hollywood celebrities advocate for blowing up the White
Read more ... →Rush Limbaugh delivered commentary on U.S. foreign policy and the nation’s superpower status on the Wednesday broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program. RUSH: Folks, we have just in the last — ah, you could say two days, the last week, we have had demonstrated for us one of life’s most basic lessons. And I want to try to explain this. I gotta tell you, I was so frustrated watching television last night as the Iranians launched their little puddle jumper missiles. I’m watching, I don’t care what channel I turned to, not even gonna mention them. All the networks,
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