Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness How often during the last year of woke, have middle- and lower-class Americans listened to multimillionaires of all races and genders lecture them on their various pathologies and oppressions? Million-dollar-a year university presidents virtue signal on the cheap their own sort of “unearned white privilege.” Multimillionaire Meghan Markle and… Continue reading Class — The Word We Dare Not Speak
The Traditionalist: Biden Non Compos Mentis
VDH on Tucker Carlson
Trump Winds and Biden Whirlwinds
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Victimizers quickly becoming victims is a recurrent theme of Thucydides’ history. In his commentary on the so-called stasis at Corcyra, he offers his most explicit warning about the long-term dangers of destroying legal institutions, customs, and traditions that serve the common good for short-term gain. The historian notes that in the… Continue reading Trump Winds and Biden Whirlwinds
Victor Davis Hanson: Left’s ‘vague’ claims that America is inherently racist ‘adjudicated’ by ‘metrics’
Scapegoats, Boogeymen, and Hobgoblins
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The world may be increasingly baffled by 2021 America, and its sudden scapegoating of “white supremacist” hobgoblins for problems it cannot or will not solve. Roughly 400 Americans were shot over the past July 4 holiday weekend. About 150 of them were killed. The majority, both of the shooters… Continue reading Scapegoats, Boogeymen, and Hobgoblins
The Culturalist: Immigration from Ancient Rome to the US Border
Eeyore ’s Corner: From Hippies to Yuppies to Our Puppies
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… Continue reading Eeyore ’s Corner: From Hippies to Yuppies to Our Puppies
Classicist: Destroying California and Other Things
Eeyore ’s Corner: From Hippies to Yuppies to Our Puppies?
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… Continue reading Eeyore ’s Corner: From Hippies to Yuppies to Our Puppies?