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<title><![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14423.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]></description><category domain="14423">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Saving California Wouldn't Be Difficult]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/04/can-california-still-be-saved/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decline is no mystery: decades of one-party rule have turned America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s golden state into a warning about the costs of ideological governance.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iranian Endgames]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/02/iranian-endgames/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iran survives by delay, deception, and deterrence games'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but the moment may be coming when airpower, not diplomacy, decides how the nuclear standoff ends.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Thucydides Trap Is a Misread of History]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/21/america-is-not-caught-in-a-thucydides-trap/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 'Thucydides Trap' is a misread of history: wars are not inevitable between rising and ruling powers, and today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s US-China balance points more to deterrence than destiny.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America: The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/19/america-the-real-crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America has repeatedly been declared a dying empire, yet every rival'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union to China'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'has ultimately fallen short of US power and resilience.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Four Horsemen of the New Antisemitism]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/12/the-four-horsemen-of-the-new-antisemitism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Demographic change, DEI ideology, anti-Israel radicalism, and political cowardice have mainstreamed hostility toward Jews.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Is Losing, Global Balance of Power Is Shifting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/04/30/iran-war-global-power-shifting/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson explains why Iran is not only losing this war, but the global balance of power is shifting, thanks to President Trump's moves.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mainstreaming Violence Against a President]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/27/from-one-assassination-attempt-to-the-next-mainstreaming-violence-against-a-president/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From one assassination attempt to the next.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Sorely Miscalculated]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/23/how-iran-committed-suicide/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/23/how-iran-committed-suicide/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decades-long bluff'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'built on terror proxies, nuclear brinkmanship, and Western appeasement'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'collapsed the moment it faced direct force and a changed geopolitical landscape.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All the Dream Houses of the Left]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/21/all-the-dream-houses-of-the-left/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The crazy world of the Left increasingly bears scant resemblance to reality]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran: A Longer View on Shifting Balance of Power]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/14/iran-a-longer-view/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leverage in the Strait exposes Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s weakness'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'turning its greatest asset into a liability and reshaping the balance of power without a ground war.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Critics, Threats Abroad and Decades of Precedent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/10/trumps_critics_ignoring_decades_of_precedent.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Left and some on the Right went crazy over President Donald Trump's recent tweet.
He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure. He promised that "a whole civilization will die...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Left Baffled (&amp; Still Repulsed) by Working Class]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/07/the-left-is-baffled-but-still-repulsed-by-the-white-working-class/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats can rebrand candidates, but they cannot hide a long record of condescension toward the very working-class voters they now need to win back.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Foolish NATO Was a Big Loser in the Iran War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/03/a_foolish_nato_was_a_big_loser_in_the_iran_war_154008.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NATO members are not legally required to join any member's military operations that are not formally sanctioned by the alliance or not aimed at protecting the homelands of the membership.
But they often do just that.
Some NATO members joined the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Foolish NATO Was Big Loser in the Iran War]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/02/a-foolish-nato-was-a-big-loser-in-the-iran-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NATO endures on American backing while many allies demand U.S. action abroad but withhold it when asked, exposing a widening gap between rhetoric and responsibility.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The War in Historical Context]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/31/the-two-wars-for-iran-the-war-in-a-historical-context/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/31/the-two-wars-for-iran-the-war-in-a-historical-context/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Military victories are decided on the battlefield'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but in modern America, they are too often lost in the politics that follow.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our New Ungracious Immigrants]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/19/our_new_ungracious_immigrants_153956.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others.
The Greek American Elia Kazan's 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Really Happening in Iran Not Being Reported]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/03/17/victor_davis_hanson_this_is_a_surreal_war_what_is_actually_happening_in_iran_is_not_being_reported.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on how the war with Iran is going after two weeks for "The Daily Signal."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Long Road to War With Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/13/our_long_road_to_war_with_iran_153937.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Until last year, for some 46 years, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: always unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, inevitably to be nuclear, self-destructive, and nihilistic.
All that said, was it really ever all that formidable?
The mullahs came...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Iran Cultivated a Myth of Invincibility]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/10/our-long-road-to-war-with-iran/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/10/our-long-road-to-war-with-iran/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For decades, Iran cultivated a myth of invincibility through terror and proxies'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'until war exposed the regime as weaker, poorer, and far more fragile than the world had feared.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump&rsquo;s Way of War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/06/trumps_way_of_war_153918.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[War is the use of arms to settle differences--tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material--between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given the constancy of human nature.
However, the manner in which war is conducted remains...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Strike First, Strike Hard, Skip the Nation-Building]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/03/trumps-way-of-war/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/03/trumps-way-of-war/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s doctrine is simple: strike first at the guilty, strike hard from afar, skip the nation-building, and end wars on America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s terms.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Trump Great Game?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/02/26/is-there-a-trump-great-game/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://amgreatness.com/2026/02/26/is-there-a-trump-great-game/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strategy prizes preemptive deterrence over drift or isolation, exploiting leverage to sap rivals, steady allies, and avert the cascading conflicts that metastasized under Obama and Biden.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Graveyard of Destructive Ideas]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/02/24/the-graveyard-of-destructive-ideas/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://amgreatness.com/2026/02/24/the-graveyard-of-destructive-ideas/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elite fashions harden into dogma, dissent becomes taboo, institutions fall in line'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and only when reality intrudes does yesterday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s madness begin its overdue collapse.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Exactly Did Biden &amp; Co. Destroy the Border?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/02/19/why-exactly-did-they-destroy-the-border/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://amgreatness.com/2026/02/19/why-exactly-did-they-destroy-the-border/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s border chaos wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t accidental'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it was a political strategy to reshape America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s electorate and expand left-wing power.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Super Bowl Satyricon]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/02/12/our-super-bowl-satyricon/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://amgreatness.com/2026/02/12/our-super-bowl-satyricon/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Super Bowl halftime has devolved into a stale Roman bacchanal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'gaudy, raunchy, and empty'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'leaving millions bored, alienated, and wondering who the spectacle is even for anymore.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Midterm Palpitations]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/midterm_palpitations_153811.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/midterm_palpitations_153811.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent regional special elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special election races.
Now energized left-wing politicos remind the nation daily that every incumbent president, except three over the last century, has suffered substantial midterm losses in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Nullification Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/01/29/slouching-towards-fort-sumter/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://amgreatness.com/2026/01/29/slouching-towards-fort-sumter/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Minnesota'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s defiance of federal immigration law echoes pre'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Fort Sumter nullification, forcing Trump to choose between enforcement and letting blue states slide toward open rebellion.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pseudo-Recessions]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/25/pseudo-recessions/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Clinton won in 1992 by selling a recession that was already over; the lesson for 2026 is simple'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'ignore real economic gains, and a fake downturn can still decide an election.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Dark Ages Return?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/19/can_the_dark_ages_return_153650.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece.
But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s Affordability, Stupid?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s critics cry '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'affordability,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('').';' but voters remember who sparked the price surge'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s now trying to clean it up.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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