Victor Davis Hanson

By any measure, California is a failed state—and a national embarrassment.

October 7 attacks spawn a gathering storm of antisemitism that overlooks wrongdoing and atrocities in other countries.

• June 16, 2026 Editor's note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today's edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily

Americans are developing tribal fatigue from the constant willingness of leaders to overlook wrongdoing by nonwhites while holding scorn for whites.

The shooting portion of the Iran “War” lasted about 40 days—far shorter than Barack Obama's 2011 congressionally unauthorized seven-month bombing campaign against Libya.

By any measure, California is a failed state — and a national embarrassment. Read more.

Its gift to the nation is a third-world failed state, now in danger of societal collapse.

What happened to the nation's most richly naturally endowed, and once best-governed, state?

So what's going on with this memorandum of understanding?

The tentative “memorandum of understanding” with Iran has caused glee on the Left and furor among many on the Right. The Left might welcome “peace,” but surely not as much as it enjoys infighting on the Right over the details.