Senator Tom Cotton and Victor Davis Hanson discussed American Challenges Abroad at a Time of Plague, Protest, and Panic at Home on July 29 at 4:30pm ET.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

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Senator Tom Cotton is a United States Senator from Arkansas. His committees include the Banking Committee, where he chairs the Economic Policy Subcommittee; the Intelligence Committee; and the Armed Services Committee, where he chairs the Air Land Power Subcommittee. He also served in Iraq with the 101st Airborne and in Afghanistan with a Provincial Reconstruction Team. Between his two combat tours, Cotton served with The Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery.

 

 

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Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history. Hanson is a bestselling author that has written or edited twenty-four books, the latest of which is The Case for Trump. He has been awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Bradley Prize. 

 

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