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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[Tolkien's Vision of Declining Gondor Offers Warning]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/10/06/are-we-becoming-gondor/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[J.R.R. Tolkien'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s vision of a declining Gondor offers a warning for the troubled West'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but also a message of hope that renewal remains possible.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not the U.S. Causing Canada's Troubles]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/10/02/victor_davis_hanson_dont_blame_trump_for_canadas_problems.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We did not say to Canada, you better let in 45% of your current population from foreign countries who were not born in Canada, or their parents weren't born, and they're not going to be assimilated and integrated in melting-pot fashion. We did not say, forego all of the rich fossil fuels...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remembering the False Gloom of the '92 Elections]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/29/remembering-the-false-gloom-and-doom-of-the-1992-elections-and-the-upcoming-midterms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans risk repeating 1992 by failing to counter economic pessimism with the facts about strong growth, falling inflation, rising incomes, and a recovering economy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran, the Midterms and October Surprises]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/17/iran-the-midterms-and-october-surprises/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Iran war could reshape the midterms as Democrats, Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s regime, dissidents, and Kurdish rebels weigh the political and military stakes of the next 50 days.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fantasy House of Mark Carney]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/15/the-fantasy-house-of-mark-carney/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mark Carney'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s anti-American crusade risks hurting Canada'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s economy while strengthening China and exposing the contradictions behind his trade war with the United States.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Chicken--or the Hard Left Egg?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/09/10/the_democratic_chicken--or_the_hard_left_egg_154489.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The primaries are over, and the November general election looms.
Suddenly, the Islamo-socialist podcaster Hasan Piker--who is now infamous for blaming America for 9/11 and warning Jews that "someone's going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Today's Leftists Are Possessed by the Jacobin Spirit]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/09/06/opinion/our-leftists-are-possessed-by-guillotine-loving-revolutionaries/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' MAGA did not operate in a vacuum'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the decade between 2015 and his re-election in 2024. His formal opposition was no longer the liberal Democrats of old but rather a new, far more radical manifestation. In their mission to fundamentally'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' change the nation,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' they were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MAGA: What Happens Next?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/victor-davis-hanson-after-trump-maga-vance-movement?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By enraging, warping, and thereby emasculating the Democratic Party, Trump made it possible for Trumpism to outlast himself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Elephant in the Canadian Room]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/03/the-elephant-in-the-canadian-room/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is surging ahead while Canada stagnates, and that growing asymmetry'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'not trade alone'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is driving the acrimony between two longtime allies.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressive West Has Embraced the Politics of Barbarism]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/01/progressive-regression-and-the-new-medievalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The West has mastered the technology of civilization but embraced the politics of barbarism, creating a modern medieval world where progress and regression coexist.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Were the Bombs of August 1945 &lsquo;Demonic&rsquo;?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/08/28/were_the_bombs_of_august_1945_demonic_154453.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did demons create the first atomic bombs?
Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs, 81 years ago, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945). This August has been no exception.
As...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hating Israel Fatigue]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/18/hating-israel-fatigue/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The West'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s selective hatred of Israel says less about Israel than it does about the values'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and prejudices'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'of those who condemn it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran's Dangerous Midterm Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/11/irans-dangerous-midterm-strategy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Daily Signal's Victor Davis Hanson breaks down Iran's dangerous midterm strategy and how it might be planning an]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Left Wants To Change the Rules]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/11/not-winning-just-change-the-rules/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the Left cannot win within the rules, it changes the rules'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and when that fails, it changes the people who make them.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Long View of Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/06/the-long-view-of-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iran is steadily being broken by sanctions, isolation, and relentless military pressure.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Situation in Iran Actually Looks Like]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/04/hanson-situation-ground-in-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't listen to what the Left is saying or even Donald Trump about Iran, says Victor Davis Hanson. What is actually happening in and to Iran?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is 'Communist' No Longer a Slur?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/04/is-communist-no-longer-a-slur/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The farther today's Democratic Socialists advance, the less they resemble reformers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the more they embrace policies long associated with communism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Next in Iran?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/30/the-iran-war-at-the-crossroads/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rulers are not playing to win the war today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'they are playing to survive long enough to fight another one tomorrow.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Socialist Monster Awakens]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/28/the-socialist-monster-awakes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Left'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s socialist revolt did not come from nowhere'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it was the inevitable offspring of years of Democratic radicalization, now turning against the party that created it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left-Wing Unicorn Hunt for the White Male Working-Class Voter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/24/the_left-wing_unicorn_hunt_for_the_white_male_working-class_voter_154366.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the popular vote because of Ross Perot's third-party candidacy.
Since then, the Democratic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems' Elusive Hunt for White Male Working-Class Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/21/the-left-wing-unicorn-hunt-for-the-white-male-working-class-voter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the popular vote because of Ross Perot'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s third-party candidacy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Global Balance Has Shifted in Our Favor]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/14/the-world-made-anew/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's allies are stronger, its rivals weaker, and the global balance has shifted.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mamdani Reveals a Remarkable Ignorance]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/07/mamdanis-embittered-fourth-of-july-rant-to-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans are understandably astonished when recent immigrants from failed states'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'plagued by caste prejudice, dictatorship, endemic racism, religious intolerance, Marxist-induced poverty, antisemitism, systemic violence, misogyny, and homophobia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'begin lecturing their American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hard Left Agenda Is as Toxic as Ever]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/30/the-new-socialists-elite-ungrateful-and-toxic-as-ever/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new socialist movement believes it can remake America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but its growing radicalism may prove the very thing that drives voters away and fuels a counterrevolution.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Broader Context of the Iranian Memorandum]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/23/dont-forget-the-broader-context-of-the-iranian-memorandum/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Iran memorandum is not a surrender or a new beginning'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it is the next phase of a strategy built on pressure, deterrence, and avoiding another costly Middle East war.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Apostate Right' and the Left Are Dead Wrong on Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/06/17/trump_on_iran_deal_nobody_knows_what_it_is.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson argues that the key difference between Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Iran dealand the Obama-era deal is that Iran is now far weaker militarily and economically. He pushes back on criticism from the left and the anti-interventionist right, saying the war may help Trump politically if...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Self-Destructive Pillars of the Left Finally Begin To Fall]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/opinion/the-most-destructive-pillars-of-lefty-lunacy-are-finally-beginning-to-fall/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Victor Davis Hanson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The grotesque sexual misconduct involving Democratic politicians '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' California Rep. Eric Swalwell'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' has finally put #MeToo to rest.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<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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