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The Many Crises of Our Chaotic New World
Biden Mocks Ancient Wisdom
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Human nature stays the same across time and space. That is why there used to be predictable political, economic, and social behavior that all countries understood. The supply of money governs inflation. Print it without either greater productivity or more goods and services, and the currency cheapens. Yet America… Continue reading Biden Mocks Ancient Wisdom
A Child’s World of Animals
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Three At 10 or 11, we graduated to do more of the shooting—with more of the same repetitious caveats, “Never shoot a bird on the wire.” I shot instead cottontails with another of my dad’s ancient guns, a 1890 Winchester .22 pump. I brought the carcasses to my grandfather around 5 PM on… Continue reading A Child’s World of Animals
Words That Don’t Matter
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers From time to time, I’ll try to update our contemporary American vocabulary. Diversity/Diverse This noun and its adjective have lost all currency. Ostensibly, diversity assumes that variety in general is better than uniformity. In some cases, perhaps it is, although the Japanese, for example, might argue their homogenous society avoids many of… Continue reading Words That Don’t Matter
A Child’s World of Animals
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two Was my Dad a militarist? Hardly. He was a farmer and junior college administrator, who hated war and swore to me once when I turned 18 and waited for my lottery number: “No one in this family ever volunteers and no one is ever going to refuse… Continue reading A Child’s World of Animals
Biden vs Republicans: The next 100 days and beyond
Mikio Sugeno and Alex Fang // Nikkei Asia Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Q: You have called the Biden presidency “the most radical first three months of a presidency since 1933, the most divisive and certainly the most dangerous.” Can you elaborate? A: Biden’s policies of de facto open borders, blanket amnesties,… Continue reading Biden vs Republicans: The next 100 days and beyond