Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender. Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically “overrepresented” in offering the ultimate… Continue reading Has the Military Lost Middle America
Questioning Biden’s ability can be a ‘bipartisan endeavor’: Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson Talks About Gwen Berry & Kennedy Looks At The Pippen/Jackson Feud
Exclusive: Victor Davis Hanson on the Assault on Meritocracy, Politicization of the Virus, and the ‘Platonic Noble Lie’
There will be “no safe space, no sanctuary from wokeism until the system starts to erode the safety and the security of the elite that created it,” says classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson. In this episode, Hanson breaks down the problems he sees plaguing American society today, from the assault on meritocracy to the “Frankenstein… Continue reading Exclusive: Victor Davis Hanson on the Assault on Meritocracy, Politicization of the Virus, and the ‘Platonic Noble Lie’
Eeyore’s Cabinet: The Paradoxes of Woke Racism
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One Here are the first three of five observations about our current woke racial mania. 1. Are the non-white elite in government, universities, entertainment, and the corporate world who rail about “whiteness,” “systemic racism,” and pathological “whites” in general mostly referring to their own elite white colleagues? Are… Continue reading Eeyore’s Cabinet: The Paradoxes of Woke Racism
The Cruel Progressive Creed Undoing Civilization
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Debt is suffocating us. Our currency is on its way to being Lebanonized. Most major American cities are broke, dirty, unsafe, and run by either corrupt incumbents, neo-Marxists, or both. The law is optional, and applied asymmetrically on the basis of race and ideology. The past is found guilty… Continue reading The Cruel Progressive Creed Undoing Civilization
The Culturalist: Shiloh and Wuhan
A Child’s Garden of Animals
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two: The Fear of and Reverence for the “Hoop Snake” For the next week after that warning about hoop snakes on the prowl as veritable animal unicyclists, I looked hourly for hoop snakes—shovel in hand—but never found a single one or even their bike-tire like trails. Yet Joe… Continue reading A Child’s Garden of Animals
The Classicist: Words Matter
Why Are They Woke?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of 2020. Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. Instead, for some, it illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one’s own… Continue reading Why Are They Woke?