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

Why Wasn’t Andrew McCabe Charged?

The Justice Department announced Friday that it is closing its investigation of Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director, over his false statements to investigators probing an unauthorized leak that McCabe had orchestrated. McCabe was fired in March 2018, shortly after a blistering Justice Department ... Read More

Law & the Courts

Why Wasn’t Andrew McCabe Charged?

By Andrew C. McCarthy

The Justice Department announced Friday that it is closing its investigation of Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director, over his false statements to investigators probing an unauthorized leak that McCabe had orchestrated. McCabe was fired in March 2018, shortly after a blistering Justice Department ... Read More

Elections

Trouble in the Workers’ Paradise

By Kevin D. Williamson

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is precisely the sort of campaign surrogate you want, especially if you are Bernie Sanders: She is young, energetic, charismatic, popular (with the people she needs to be popular with, anyway), and, happily, currently ineligible to run for the presidency ... Read More

Elections

Trouble in the Workers’ Paradise

By Kevin D. Williamson

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is precisely the sort of campaign surrogate you want, especially if you are Bernie Sanders: She is young, energetic, charismatic, popular (with the people she needs to be popular with, anyway), and, happily, currently ineligible to run for the presidency ... Read More

Video

AOC’s District Poll Numbers Are Bad

According to a Quinnipiac poll, 36 percent of respondents had an unfavorable view of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Read More

Video

AOC’s District Poll Numbers Are Bad

According to a Quinnipiac poll, 36 percent of respondents had an unfavorable view of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Read More

White House

Pelosi Objects to CNN Anchor’s Claim That Trump Was Acquitted in Impeachment Trial

By Tobias Hoonhout

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) interjected during an interview Saturday to make the case that President Trump was not acquitted from impeachment because his Senate trial lacked additional witnesses and documents demanded by Senate Democrats. “You can’t have an acquittal unless you have a trial, ... Read More

White House

Pelosi Objects to CNN Anchor’s Claim That Trump Was Acquitted in Impeachment Trial

By Tobias Hoonhout

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) interjected during an interview Saturday to make the case that President Trump was not acquitted from impeachment because his Senate trial lacked additional witnesses and documents demanded by Senate Democrats. “You can’t have an acquittal unless you have a trial, ... Read More

Law & the Courts

The Roger Stone Double Standard

By David Harsanyi

Whether Roger Stone, the loopy, self-aggrandizing political operative, deserves nine years in Supermax for obstructing an investigation into Russia–Donald Trump “collusion” is debatable. Whether the powerful men who helped create the investigation that ensnared Stone have been allowed to lie with impunity ... Read More

Law & the Courts

The Roger Stone Double Standard

By David Harsanyi

Whether Roger Stone, the loopy, self-aggrandizing political operative, deserves nine years in Supermax for obstructing an investigation into Russia–Donald Trump “collusion” is debatable. Whether the powerful men who helped create the investigation that ensnared Stone have been allowed to lie with impunity ... Read More

NR PLUS Elections

Michael Bloomberg Is a Condescending Jerk . . .

By Robert VerBruggen

The hunt is on for offensive clips of Michael Bloomberg talking off the cuff, and over the weekend a new one circulated. In the version passed around, Bloomberg nonchalantly tells his Oxford audience that he could teach anyone how to farm — “even people in this room”: “It’s a process; you dig a hole, ... Read More

NR PLUS Elections

Michael Bloomberg Is a Condescending Jerk . . .

By Robert VerBruggen

The hunt is on for offensive clips of Michael Bloomberg talking off the cuff, and over the weekend a new one circulated. In the version passed around, Bloomberg nonchalantly tells his Oxford audience that he could teach anyone how to farm — “even people in this room”: “It’s a process; you dig a hole, ... Read More

Elections

Sanders Campaign Manager Slams MSNBC, Says Fox News Is ‘More Fair’

By Tobias Hoonhout

Bernie Sanders’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, has accused MSNBC of employing “double standard” in its coverage of the Vermont senator, claiming in an interview published Tuesday that Fox News is “more fair” in critiquing Sanders’s progressive platform. “That’s saying something,” Shakir told ... Read More

Elections

Sanders Campaign Manager Slams MSNBC, Says Fox News Is ‘More Fair’

By Tobias Hoonhout

Bernie Sanders’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, has accused MSNBC of employing “double standard” in its coverage of the Vermont senator, claiming in an interview published Tuesday that Fox News is “more fair” in critiquing Sanders’s progressive platform. “That’s saying something,” Shakir told ... Read More

NR PLUS World

The Chinese Communist Party Struggles to Contain the Coronavirus Fallout

By Madeleine Kearns

Crises, particularly unexpected ones, can make or break a government as much as an individual. In 2019, China “celebrated” 70 years of Communist Party rule. China’s economic growth was at the lowest it’s been in three decades. And it faced the added political challenge of the Hong Kong protests, as ... Read More

NR PLUS World

The Chinese Communist Party Struggles to Contain the Coronavirus Fallout

By Madeleine Kearns

Crises, particularly unexpected ones, can make or break a government as much as an individual. In 2019, China “celebrated” 70 years of Communist Party rule. China’s economic growth was at the lowest it’s been in three decades. And it faced the added political challenge of the Hong Kong protests, as ... Read More

National Security & Defense

Lindsey Graham Pushes Back at Def. Sec. Esper over Africa Troop Withdrawal: I Could ‘Make Your Life Hell’

By Zachary Evans

Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) led a group of U.S. congressmen in challenging Defense Secretary Mark Esper over the Trump administration's Africa policy on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, NBC reported Tuesday. Graham and the other lawmakers, including Senator Chris Coons ... Read More

National Security & Defense

Lindsey Graham Pushes Back at Def. Sec. Esper over Africa Troop Withdrawal: I Could ‘Make Your Life Hell’

By Zachary Evans

Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) led a group of U.S. congressmen in challenging Defense Secretary Mark Esper over the Trump administration's Africa policy on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, NBC reported Tuesday. Graham and the other lawmakers, including Senator Chris Coons ... Read More

Elections

The Farming Wit and Wisdom of Mike Bloomberg

By Victor Davis Hanson

Here is what Democratic candidate for president Michael Bloomberg said in 2016 at Oxford, in what he apparently offered up as an ad hoc history of labor, agriculture, and industry, leading up to his own sophisticated era, as reported in the New York Post: "I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no ... Read More

Elections

The Farming Wit and Wisdom of Mike Bloomberg

By Victor Davis Hanson

Here is what Democratic candidate for president Michael Bloomberg said in 2016 at Oxford, in what he apparently offered up as an ad hoc history of labor, agriculture, and industry, leading up to his own sophisticated era, as reported in the New York Post: "I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no ... Read More

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