Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The Kenosha/Waukesha contrast summed up the great abyss between BLM/Woke/Media rhetoric and the soaring crime reality on the street. The former was hyped as race when it was not, the latter was written off as nonracial when it was. Rittenhouse should have never been arrested; Brooks should never have been… Continue reading The Critical Race Rhetoric Versus the Reality on the Street

Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals In 1959 I first noticed that nesting high in the cottonwoods surrounding our artesian pond (long since dried up and in 2005 sold off) there were “big” birds. My father explained they were a pair of red-tailed hawks. My maternal grandfather added in details (he was born… Continue reading Generations upon Generations of Red-tail Hawks

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Most Americans once were mostly in agreement about what happened on December 7, 1941, 80 years ago this year. But not so much now, given either the neglect of America’s past in the schools or woke revisionism at odds with the truth. The Pacific war that followed Pearl Harbor was… Continue reading Misremembering Pearl Harbor

Click Here to access VDH’s “Week In Review.” Victor wrote two series for “VDH Ultra” content which are must reads, and we have two weeks of American Greatness included below. We hope you enjoy the podcasts as always – the most recent week’s episodes are linked in this newsletter. We missed two weeks and, of… Continue reading Week In Review

Author and historian Victor Davis Hanson talks and takes calls about war, politics and citizenship in the United States. Mr. Hanson’s many books include “The Second World Wars,” “The Case for Trump,” and his latest “The Dying Citizen.” Program ID: 515783-1 Category: Call-In Format: Call-In Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States Will Air: Dec… Continue reading C-SPAN In Depth December 5 with Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Race. The recent verdicts in the Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases remind us that in the post-OJ age, the current jury system usually works well enough—given the former was rightly found innocent of murder and the killers of the latter probably had insufficient cause to justify lethal force based on… Continue reading Learning from Months of Chaos. Part Three

Victor Davis HansonAmerican Greatness In a recent online exchange, the YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s—hole of a city.” The multimillionaire actor Seth Rogen chastised Neistat for his anger.  Rogen claimed that a car’s contents… Continue reading Third Worldizing America

Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Fuel. A year ago, gas and heating fuels were cheap. They now have gone up on average 60 percent, far higher in places like California. Biden, after cancelling pipelines, putting federal lands off limits to fracking and horizontal drilling, promising new taxes and regulations on fossil-fuel development, and cutting back… Continue reading Learning from Months of Chaos. Part Two

Terry Scambray American Thinker The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America, by Victor Davis Hanson.  Basic Books, 2021. 346 pp. Defining terms is always a good place to begin a conversation and Victor Davis Hanson’s The Dying Citizen weaves a rich definition of citizenship into his discussion… Continue reading A Writer Like No Other: The Dying Citizen

Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet We have suffered an unfortunate ten months under Joe Biden, but also received a bitter and valuable reminder of the leftwing gods who failed. Here are some lessons Biden has offered since his inauguration. The common ideological theme of these disasters is an arrogant disavowal of unchanging human nature. Put… Continue reading Learning from Months of Chaos. Part One