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Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSun, 17 May 2026 23:56:46 -0400<![CDATA[The Biden First family seems determined to confirm every stereotype of their antisocial behavior — to the point of dysfunctionality.]]>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 17:50:24 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2023/07/20/the-biden-family-caricatures-n1712356<![CDATA[President Joe Biden, the Biden grifting conglomerate, the Department of Justice, and the FBI under its fourth consecutive weaponized director, are in danger of subverting the American system of law.]]>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 09:36:47 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2023/07/05/the-bidens-existential-threats-to-the-american-rule-of-law-n1708328<![CDATA[The most recent liberal ABC News/Washington Post poll showed President Joe Biden&#8217;s approval rating at 36 percent—the lowest in history for a president at this point in his first term.]]>Thu, 18 May 2023 09:44:59 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2023/05/18/joe-biden-the-habitual-racialist-demagogue-n1696334<![CDATA[The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald&#8217;s, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors.]]>Thu, 04 May 2023 00:11:18 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2023/05/04/the-new-ugly-americans-n1692523<![CDATA[We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary.]]>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:05:35 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2023/04/06/our-french-revolution-n1684997<![CDATA[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?]]>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:01:29 -0500<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2023/01/05/did-someone-or-something-seize-control-of-the-united-states-n1658786<![CDATA[The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon &#8212; perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan.]]>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 04:54:17 -0500<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2022/12/29/the-new-new-antisemitism-n1657081<![CDATA[In a famous exchange in the The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote: &#8220;How did you go bankrupt?&#8221; Bill asked. &#8220;Two ways,&#8221; Mike said. &#8220;Gradually, then suddenly.&#8221;]]>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 06:21:10 -0500<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2022/12/22/are-universities-doomed-n1655607<![CDATA[Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob.]]>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:01:44 -0500<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2022/12/15/two-antithetical-billionaires-n1653771<![CDATA[As the midterms approach, one way of looking at America&#8217;s current disaster is that we, the American people, were lab rats. And since 2021, the Left were the mad scientists, eager to try out their crackpot leftist experiments on us.]]>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 01:34:09 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2022/11/03/the-left-were-the-mad-scientists-we-were-their-lab-rats-n1642343<![CDATA[President Joe Biden, the nominal head of the Democratic Party, is 79. But he increasingly acts and sounds 89.]]>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:02:07 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Biden]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2022/10/06/an-epidemic-of-cognitive-impairment-n1635052<![CDATA[For years, European policymakers had assured the world that the relatively rapid &#8220;transition&#8221; to &#8220;green&#8221; energy was the world&#8217;s preordained future &#8212; regardless of the costs.]]>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:19:40 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2022/08/03/why-we-lost-trust-in-the-expert-class-n1618157<![CDATA[Congress should investigate fully the January 6 riot at the Capitol—and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites.]]>Thu, 16 Jun 2022 01:27:02 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2022/06/16/what-the-january-6-committee-might-have-been-n1605813<![CDATA[America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell&#8217;s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and partly the poet Homer&#8217;s land of the Lotus-Eaters.]]>Sat, 23 Apr 2022 21:34:33 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Border Crisis]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2022/04/23/how-america-became-la-la-land-n1592249<![CDATA[One &#8212; Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence bolster deterrence. But President Joe Biden&#8217;s predictable reassurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will show restraint means Putin likely will not.]]>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:29:18 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2022/03/17/10-realities-of-ukraine-n1567273<![CDATA[In a controversial passage in Plato&#8217;s &#8220;Republic,&#8221; Socrates introduced the idea of the &#8220;noble lie&#8221; (&#8220;gennaios pseudos&#8220;).]]>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:01:40 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2021/10/28/the-ignoble-lie-n1527503<![CDATA[In A.D. 286 the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively &#8212; and peacefully &#8212; under the control of two emperors.]]>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:01:17 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2021/10/14/is-america-becoming-rome-versus-byzantium-n1523825<![CDATA[Epigraph: &#8220;Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.&#8221; George Orwell, &#8220;Animal Farm&#8221;]]>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 01:03:24 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2021/09/30/orwell-and-the-woke-n1520662<![CDATA[Deterrence is the ancient ability to scare somebody off from hurting you, your friends or your interests &#8212; without a major war.]]>Thu, 23 Sep 2021 08:00:51 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Border Crisis]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2021/09/23/civilization-requires-deterrence-n1480751<![CDATA[It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies and much of the country.]]>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:01:58 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]>https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2021/09/02/theres-a-problem-in-the-upper-reaches-of-our-military-n1475209