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22 Aug 2026

An American Tech Boom

America is undergoing a technological revolution across artificial intelligence, space exploration, software, genetic engineering, and other industries that will shape the future. U.S. companies dominate many of the world’s most valuable technology sectors, while American AI platforms account for most of the services people around the world use every day.

SpaceX and other American companies are dramatically outpacing foreign competitors in satellites and rocket launches, while U.S. software companies command enormous global valuations. American firms are also leading emerging fields such as genetic engineering and advanced medical technology.

Despite decades of predictions about American decline and the rise of China and Europe, the United States has strengthened its position in many of the technologies that will determine global prosperity, security, and power in the decades ahead. Here’s more from Victor Davis Hanson.

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20 Aug 2026

Iran Teetering On The Brink

Iran is facing an increasingly severe economic and military squeeze as sanctions, financial isolation, trade restrictions, and attacks on its military infrastructure cut the country off from the global economy. The strategy resembles an economic “Anaconda Plan,” gradually depriving Iran of oil revenue, foreign currency, industrial parts, weapons, fuel, and access to international markets while negotiations and military action continue.

Iran is betting that it can withstand the pressure long enough for the approaching U.S. midterm elections to constrain the Trump administration, but the country is losing hundreds of millions of dollars in economic output and revenue each day while its military capabilities continue to deteriorate.

The Strait of Hormuz may also become less valuable as Gulf states expand pipelines and alternative export routes through the Gulf of Oman, Red Sea, and potentially the Mediterranean. As Iran’s economy weakens, its military shrinks, and alternative oil routes reduce its leverage over global shipping, time may increasingly favor the United States rather than Tehran. Here’s more from Victor Davis Hanson.

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19 Aug 2026

Fang Fang Interns In Congress

Why didn’t the FBI arrest and prosecute Chinese spy Fang Fang in a timely fashion?

It turns out Jack Smith – the same hardcore leftist prosecutor who worked to undermine President Donald Trump — also waved off any prosecution of Fang Fang. Smith belongs in prison. As did Fang Fang.

She not only placed Chinese spies as interns on our Congress, but also underwrote the campaigns of Eric Swalwell.  She also screwed him at least twice, while he was pumped up on Ambien. Here’s more from Doug In Exile, citing sources including the FBI and John Solomon at Just The News.

 

 

 

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07 Aug 2026

Trump Could Destroy Iran

Victor Davis Hanson joins the show to discuss the biggest political and geopolitical challenges facing President Donald Trump, including the ongoing conflict with Iran, rising gas prices, divisions inside the America First movement, and the future of the conservative coalition.  The conversation explores whether Trump’s biggest political challenge is actually the war itself or the economic impact that higher oil prices and inflation have on everyday Americans.

As energy costs remain closely tied to events in the Middle East, Hanson explains why the Strait of Hormuz has become one of the world’s most important strategic flashpoints and what it will take for the region to stabilize.

Trump could destroy Iran. So why is he holding back? Here’s more from Stephen Gardner.

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02 Aug 2026

They’re United Against America

Radical Islam and the socialist left have formed an unlikely political alliance despite their profound ideological differences.

Both movements share a deep hostility toward Western civilization, capitalism, Israel, and liberal democracy, creating a coalition driven by common enemies rather than common beliefs.

The history and core principles of Islam, Marxism, socialism, and communism reveal where these ideologies fundamentally conflict and where they increasingly overlap. Their opposing views on religion, government, individual rights, and society are contrasted alongside the shared political goals that have brought them together in modern Western politics. Here’s more from Victor Davis Hanson.

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14 Jul 2026

We Have No War And No Peace

The war with Iran has settled into a dangerous pattern of strikes, retaliation and stalled negotiations. Iran appears to be using talks to buy time while continuing to threaten the Gulf, tankers and the Strait of Hormuz.

The United States has already damaged major parts of Iran’s military and political structure, but the conflict will continue unless Iran loses the ability to keep attacking its neighbors and disrupting global shipping. The path forward is to raise the cost on Iran’s military infrastructure, weaken its ability to strike and create the conditions for most American forces to come home.

With oil prices stabilizing, regional allies capable of helping keep the strait open and the midterms approaching, the question is whether Trump can end the conflict decisively and shift attention back to the economy and the political fights at home. Here’s more from Victor Davis Hanson.

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05 Jul 2026

Left’s Moderate Veneer Cracking

The radical left continues to nominate extreme candidates under the guise of moderation, a strategy that is rapidly failing as the American public wakes up to their bankrupt agenda.

Meanwhile, a growing wave of far-left political figures weaponize identity politics and open-border policies to fundamentally reshape the nation while expressing open contempt for the very country that granted them prosperity.

This unsustainable shift has completely alienated everyday Americans who are tired of watching their laws, borders, and national sovereignty get taken for granted. Here’s a new edition of The Daily Signal with Victor Davis Hanson.

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09 Jun 2026

We Salute The Men Of D-Day

June 6, 1944, was more than a beach landing. It was the opening blow that helped break Nazi Germany and secure American hegemony for decades to come.

We owe so much to the brave men who charged into gunfire that day, knowing quite well their last actions would be in defense of their country.

Here’s a look back at D-Day and the landing on the beaches of Normandy from Victor Davis Hanson in the latest edition of his series In A Few Words.

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02 Jun 2026

Could Pratt Actually Prevail?

The far left has enjoyed one-party rule in the City of Angels for decades, but now there’s a slight wrinkle in their plans as Los Angeles might finally get its first non-left mayor in years this Tuesday.

Spencer Pratt, the nominally conservative former reality TV star turned political activist, is currently trailing by less than five points behind incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and is even closer to current City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, according to recent polling by UC Berkeley/The Los Angeles Times.

Why? Twofold: Two far-left candidates may split the vote, and Pratt, for all the grief the Left bestows upon him, is not really identifiable as a MAGA Republican—the thing Los Angeles voters hate most—argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.

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10 May 2026

Democrat Party: Gone Forever

The traditional Democrat Party of the last century has been systematically replaced by a radical Jacobin movement that seeks the fundamental transformation of Western civilization.

This new faction mirrors the French Revolution’s extremists by toppling statues, weaponizing race through DEI, and showing open disdain for national borders.

From billionaire socialists to the rejection of law and order, the modern Left has abandoned the working class in favor of a revolutionary agenda that endangers the very foundations of the American Republic, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

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