Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Stonewalling investigations into the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan? A hundred new hardened intercontinental nuclear missiles silos? Dressing down U.S. diplomats on purported American racism? Braggadocio about nuking non-nuclear and once-nuked Japan, if need be? Winks and nods that Taiwan will soon be Hong-Kongized? Hacking into Western institutions? No… Continue reading China’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Week In Review: Connected to Reality
Eeyore’s Cabinet: Cannibalism, Suicide, or What?
Part One The two-parties used to have coherent, if antithetical, agendas. The Left believed foremost in equality of result (now renamed “equity”), the Right far more in an equality of opportunity. The former distrusted individuality and considered liberty problematic; the latter even more so feared government and its plan to reengineer income, and the daily… Continue reading Eeyore’s Cabinet: Cannibalism, Suicide, or What?
Democrats No More
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In the old days, Democrats had predictable agendas, supposedly focused on individual rights, the “little guy,” and distrust of the military-industrial-intelligence complex. The Left, often on spec, blasted the wealthy, whether the “lucre” was self-made or inherited. The old-money rich were lampooned as idle drones. If the rich were… Continue reading Democrats No More
Is America a Racist Country? – Victor Davis Hanson
The Classicist: World War II Reconsidered
A Child’s Garden of Animals: Barnicide
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two Eight years after that last auto-avicide, the barn began to slowly tip over as the old eucalyptus poles wobbled, and the fir rafters finally after a near century and a half bent. At some point, after 40 years of fixing, repairing, borrowing to keep ancient things viable,… Continue reading A Child’s Garden of Animals: Barnicide
The American Descent into Madness
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794. After the election of November 1860, in a matter of weeks, Americans went from thinking secession… Continue reading The American Descent into Madness
A Child’s Garden of Animals: Barnicide
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One Barn Owls really do like barns. And they are invaluable predators of mice, squirrels, rats and such who all do their small part to wreck a barn and its environs. And yet they are not the fierce Great-Horned-Owls of six-foot wingspans that swooped just above the ground… Continue reading A Child’s Garden of Animals: Barnicide