The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast -- Episode 1: The Launch

U.S.

Dramatic Reduction in COVID-19 Disaster Projections

Readers who’ve been following along with me know I’ve been frustrated by the fuzziness of the coronavirus statistics. In particular, it is hard to nail down such crucial numbers as what a “confirmed case” is (e.g., is it a case of the virus or the potentially lethal disease caused by the virus?), and what ... Read More

U.S.

Dramatic Reduction in COVID-19 Disaster Projections

By Andrew C. McCarthy

Readers who’ve been following along with me know I’ve been frustrated by the fuzziness of the coronavirus statistics. In particular, it is hard to nail down such crucial numbers as what a “confirmed case” is (e.g., is it a case of the virus or the potentially lethal disease caused by the virus?), and what ... Read More

Law & the Courts

The Last Trusted Prosecutor in Washington

By Jim Geraghty

John Durham may be the most consequential and least known figure in Washington right now. In May, U.S. attorney general William Barr selected Durham, a longtime prosecutor with a résumé so sterling it nearly glows, to investigate the origins of the special counsel’s probe into Russian interference in the ... Read More

Law & the Courts

The Last Trusted Prosecutor in Washington

By Jim Geraghty

John Durham may be the most consequential and least known figure in Washington right now. In May, U.S. attorney general William Barr selected Durham, a longtime prosecutor with a résumé so sterling it nearly glows, to investigate the origins of the special counsel’s probe into Russian interference in the ... Read More

Video

Culture with Kat Timpf: 16-Year-Old Girl Shouldn’t Face Child-Porn Charges

Kat Timpf explains why a 16-year-old Maryland girl shouldn't be charged with child-porn distribution after making a video of herself. Read More

Video

Culture with Kat Timpf: 16-Year-Old Girl Shouldn’t Face Child-Porn Charges

Kat Timpf explains why a 16-year-old Maryland girl shouldn't be charged with child-porn distribution after making a video of herself. Read More

World

How to Make China Pay

By John Yoo & Ivana Stradner

One of the big questions facing the international community today is how to hold China legally and politically accountable for all its dishonesty and harm to people around the world. According to reports, U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed to the White House that China has deliberately understated the ... Read More

World

How to Make China Pay

By John Yoo & Ivana Stradner

One of the big questions facing the international community today is how to hold China legally and politically accountable for all its dishonesty and harm to people around the world. According to reports, U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed to the White House that China has deliberately understated the ... Read More

World

WHO Failed

By The Editors

Since its inception 72 years ago almost to the day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been credited with the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of other devastating illnesses, including leprosy and river blindness. This record of success makes the current corruption of the organization ... Read More

World

WHO Failed

By The Editors

Since its inception 72 years ago almost to the day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been credited with the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of other devastating illnesses, including leprosy and river blindness. This record of success makes the current corruption of the organization ... Read More

NR PLUS Politics & Policy

The Eeyore Syndrome

By Victor Davis Hanson

In A. A. Milne's classic Winne-the-Pooh children’s tales, Eeyore, the old gray donkey, is perennially pessimistic and gloomy. He always expects the worst to happen. Milne understood that Eeyore’s outbursts of depression could at first be salutatory but then become monotonous. The outlook of the pessimist ... Read More

NR PLUS Politics & Policy

The Eeyore Syndrome

By Victor Davis Hanson

In A. A. Milne's classic Winne-the-Pooh children’s tales, Eeyore, the old gray donkey, is perennially pessimistic and gloomy. He always expects the worst to happen. Milne understood that Eeyore’s outbursts of depression could at first be salutatory but then become monotonous. The outlook of the pessimist ... Read More

NR PLUS World

The Trail Leading Back to the Wuhan Labs

By Jim Geraghty

It is understandable that many would be wary of the notion that the origin of the coronavirus could be discovered by some documentary filmmaker who used to live in China. Matthew Tye, who creates YouTube videos, contends he has identified the source of the coronavirus — and a great deal of the information that ... Read More

NR PLUS World

The Trail Leading Back to the Wuhan Labs

By Jim Geraghty

It is understandable that many would be wary of the notion that the origin of the coronavirus could be discovered by some documentary filmmaker who used to live in China. Matthew Tye, who creates YouTube videos, contends he has identified the source of the coronavirus — and a great deal of the information that ... Read More

Politics & Policy

‘I Take My Personal Hygiene Very Seriously’: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Violates Her Own Quarantine Advice to Get a Haircut

By Mairead McArdle

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing backlash after she violated her own quarantine advice over the weekend to go to a salon for a haircut. Lightfoot defended her decision by saying that she is the "public face of this city" "I’m on national media and I’m out in the public eye," she responded to a ... Read More

Politics & Policy

‘I Take My Personal Hygiene Very Seriously’: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Violates Her Own Quarantine Advice to Get a Haircut

By Mairead McArdle

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing backlash after she violated her own quarantine advice over the weekend to go to a salon for a haircut. Lightfoot defended her decision by saying that she is the "public face of this city" "I’m on national media and I’m out in the public eye," she responded to a ... Read More

National Security & Defense

Frigates: The Right Tool for the Job

By Jerry Hendrix

In announcing a major initiative to combat drug trafficking in the Pacific and Caribbean and to defend the United States against the threat posed by the Maduro regime and associated drug cartels, the U.S. government is making the right move. But the assets chosen, in particular the assignment of three destroyers, ... Read More

National Security & Defense

Frigates: The Right Tool for the Job

By Jerry Hendrix

In announcing a major initiative to combat drug trafficking in the Pacific and Caribbean and to defend the United States against the threat posed by the Maduro regime and associated drug cartels, the U.S. government is making the right move. But the assets chosen, in particular the assignment of three destroyers, ... Read More

Health Care

It’s Too Early to Declare Sweden a Success Story

By Theodore Kupfer

John Fund and Joel W. Hay argue on the homepage that Sweden's lax approach to the coronavirus has been successful, and further that its success will "probably" prove the recommendations of most epidemiologists wrong. "If social isolation worked, wouldn’t Sweden, a Nordic country of 10.1 million people, be ... Read More

Health Care

It’s Too Early to Declare Sweden a Success Story

By Theodore Kupfer

John Fund and Joel W. Hay argue on the homepage that Sweden's lax approach to the coronavirus has been successful, and further that its success will "probably" prove the recommendations of most epidemiologists wrong. "If social isolation worked, wouldn’t Sweden, a Nordic country of 10.1 million people, be ... Read More

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