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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I had a recent podcast that I hope you all enjoyed about the new revisionism of…
The following are remarks as prepared by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Sept. 4 at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. It is always such a pleasure to be with you. In a city characterized by much talk, much of it frivolous (I mean, have you been to the Senate recently?), the National Conservatism Conference…
The U.S. Senate has wasted no time getting back to serving the American people after its six-week summer recess. With issues like the Sept. 30 deadline to have either a budget or a continuing resolution or risk a partial government shutdown on the agenda, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia reminded us of the twisted view…
John Hendrix’s magically illustrated biography tells the tale of one of literature’s greatest friendships. Show, don’t tell, say the masters of literature. But in “The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien,” author/illustrator John Hendrix asks the question, why not both? In the format of a graphic novel, or more precisely, a…
President Donald Trump’s use of a 1798 law to expedite deportations of foreign gang members is almost certainly headed for the Supreme Court, where legal experts anticipate the administration will prevail. A panel of the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 this week to impose an injunction on the Trump administration using the…
This week, anti-American and pro-Hamas advocates gathered in Detroit at a “People’s Conference for Palestine.” There, they expressed radical solidarity with terrorism, celebrated the achievements of Hamas, and denigrated the United States. “The average American will never understand the plight of the Palestinian person because the state of Israel is a carbon copy of the…
There’s something darkly funny about liberal journalists insisting any new focus on the Russiagate frenzy of 2017-19 is a “distraction” from their current obsession over President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. One can argue that their entire Russiagate obsession back then was a massive distraction from the actual business of America. Call it “The Story…
It’s been almost a year since Hurricane Helene reshaped Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia. But as a native of that region, I remember it like it was yesterday: the reports of catastrophic flooding, thousands of mudslides, and infrastructure failures—from interstate closures to cell towers being offline. Four days after the storm, I had still not heard from…
This is a preview of this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown.” Don’t miss politics editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with professor Patrick Deneen by turning on YouTube notifications for the premiere at 6:30 a.m. EST on Sept. 4. Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen’s book, “Why Liberalism Failed,” was not a project undertaken to explain the…
This summer, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation secretly began the process of withdrawing from its longstanding partnership with Arabella Advisors, a central hub of the Left’s dark money network. This news, first reported by The New York Times, may seem irrelevant or esoteric, but it will likely send shockwaves through the political world. The…
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s been another shooting, mass shooting, this time in Minneapolis at Annunciation, a private Catholic school….
The following is an abridged and edited speech delivered by Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought on Sept. 3 at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. It’s good to be with you this morning. It’s actually my first time at NatCon. I was talking with Yoram [Hazony] backstage on this,…
Last week, just days into the new school year, a 23-year-old transgender gunman targeted a Minneapolis Catholic school that he used to attend, opening fire on students through the windows of the church where they’d gathered for a special mass. He killed two students and wounded nearly two dozen additional victims before taking his own…
School choice continues to be a hot topic among parents in Virginia, especially in an election year when the Governor’s Mansion and House of Delegates are up for grabs. The commonwealth has limited options and doesn’t have true choice for every student. The Virginia Education Opportunity Alliance will hold a statewide education summit in Richmond…
Those afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome are no longer just wishing the president were dead, they’re actually starting to hallucinate it. While the rest of us were hitting the grocery store for Labor Day weekend goodies, the Never Trump-types were hitting resend on posts questioning whether President Donald Trump had died. It seems a whole…
As an Arlington, Virginia, taxpayer, it’s upsetting that my taxpayer money—along with that of neighboring Fairfax, Virginia, taxpayers—is being used to sue the Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Education. Arlington and Fairfax schools want to block the civil rights of schoolgirls and boys and deny them their Title IX protections by allowing members of the…
Before Robin Westman murdered two children and wounded many more at Minneapolis’ Annunciation Catholic School, Robin was Robert, a troubled teenager whose mother worked for the parish. Robert’s mother approved the name change, but after Robert became Robin in 2020, the teen’s psychological problems obviously didn’t go away—they led, five years later, to carnage. A…
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There is going to be an eruption in Iran, I think, maybe within a year or…
I recently wrote a letter to my alma mater urging the school to embrace ideological diversity rather than pushing its liberal agenda on students. It fell on deaf ears. I graduated from Davidson College in May with a B.S. in biology and a plan to pursue a physician assistant school. But during the fall of…
The following are remarks as prepared by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Sept. 2 at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. There’s a special significance to this conference this year. Donald Trump’s victory was not just a victory for his movement, but for the ideas of the people in this room. National conservatism is…