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Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers

Part Three: Puppydom

The grandchildren of the hippies and the children of the Yuppies? They are a different, a hybrid bunch altogether. 

They combine all the worst traits of both leftist eras: selfishness, performance art, the I/me/my/mine self-infatuation (“my story,” “my truth,” “my narrative”), crudity, vulgarity and rudeness of the 1960s, along with the fixation on class, snobbery, elitism, money, careerism of the 1980s and beyond. And like both Hippies and Yuppies, their prolonged adolescence and child-like self-centeredness are signature traits.

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Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers

Part Two: Yuppiedom

The nihilism of the protests movements, the drop-outs’ human wreckage, the end of the draft and American involvement in Vietnam, and the ‘silent majority’ reaction to hippiness, all ended the Sixites, albeit in the 1970s. George McGovern’s landslide loss to Richard Nixon in 1972 marked the beginning of the end of the age of protest. Both the right-wing insurance agent and the aging professor, like the silly Dionysiac outfitted Teiresias and Cadmus in Euripides Bacchae, now wore paisley and bell-bottoms, and viewed Deep Throat, but otherwise America was on to taste and the good life.

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Victor Davis Hanson // Megyn Kelly Show

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Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News

Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Critical Race Theories and the Left, new evidence from Hunter’s laptop, Trump and 2024, and the 4th of July.

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers

Part One: Hippiedom

The Sixties were, as the late, great Peter Collier and the astute David Horowitz wrote, the work of a “Destructive Generation.”

Some of the best minds of the conservative movement who lived through those wasted years chronicled their excesses—the narcissism, the selfishness, and the legacy of free love, drugs, and radical chic resistance. All that and more were passed on to two subsequent generations, who inherited the “free that and free this” of the Sixties—but not the educational and moral instruction that ungracious and pampered radicals had received by being raised and taught by the Greatest Generation. 

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Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness

This Fourth of July holiday we might pause for a moment from our festivities to ask how we collectively lost our minds over the last 15 months—and are we yet regaining any semblance of our sanity? 

A pandemic caused by the leak of a Chinese-engineered virus and its coverup was cause enough for nationwide madness. But the spread of COVID-19 was followed by a nationalized and often politicized “flatten-the-curve” quarantine that soon ensured a stir-crazy nation. Tens of millions saw no people, and heard nothing human other than what was fed to them through television and computers. No wonder they grew paranoid, conspiratorial, and angry, and soon forgot the therapeutic nature of personal interaction and the shared humanity of being in the physical presence of others.

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Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News

Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc explain water for agriculture in Ancient Greece and modern California.