Donald A. Promnitz // The Sentinel Author and historian Victor Davis Hanson visited Hanford to discuss the social and political lessons learned from 2020. Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and chairs the Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict. He is also a… Continue reading Victor Davis Hanson speaks at Hanford Rotary
A Chinese Lab Virus? So What Now?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness For over a year, the American establishment and media borg have ostracized anyone who dared to connect the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic with the Chinese military-sponsored, level-4 biosafety Wuhan Institute of Virology. Then, suddenly and without apologies for their past demagoguery, “journalists” and “experts” concede that the nearby… Continue reading A Chinese Lab Virus? So What Now?
The Traditionalist: All the Lies and Pretense
VDH on Martha MacCallum
Historian’s Corner: Assessing America in the Age of Woke
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One Wokism took off in June 2020. It became institutionalized after Joe Biden became president. We have now had nearly five months of the radical Biden political agenda to seep through the larger popular culture. So where are we now in this suddenly strange and nearly unrecognizable land?… Continue reading Historian’s Corner: Assessing America in the Age of Woke
VDH on Tucker Carlson
Anatomy of the Woke Madness
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Wokeism has become our most popular secular religion—at least for a moment dethroning climate change. It reduces all of the past and present into puerile binaries between “whites” and “non-whites.” Its aim is for the present generation to rewrite our history—whether by The 1619 Project and cancel culture or iconoclastic statue-toppling… Continue reading Anatomy of the Woke Madness
The Culturalist: Finding Ancient Greece’s Homer and Tragedians
Optimism, Inc: Dante’s California Inferno—Nine months later.
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Two weeks ago, I drove up Route 168 to Huntington Lake, sometimes known as Lakeshore, California. I had not been there since winter. I have a small house up there, at nearly ground zero of the “Creek Fire” (September to December 2020) that devoured much of the central Sierra… Continue reading Optimism, Inc: Dante’s California Inferno—Nine months later.
Eeyore’s Cabinet: When Is Some Hatred, Some Racism OK?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two Here are some puerile comments from a Sarah Jeong 2018 rant on social media. She was appointed for a while to the New York Times editorial board, which is usually and otherwise bothered by racial venom: Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun,… Continue reading Eeyore’s Cabinet: When Is Some Hatred, Some Racism OK?