Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness If wokeness should continue and “win,” by now we all know where it will end up. After all, this is not a prairie-fire, peasants-with-pitchforks, spontaneous bottom-up revolution. The woke Left seeks a top-down erasure of America, engineered by the likes of LeBron James from his $40 million estate talking… Continue reading Tuning Out Wokism
A Child’s World of Animals
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One One of the problems of the modern world is our helicopter society of well-meant, but over-parentage. Or is it the belief that the more we shield and protect our children, the safer they become, as if a houseplant carefully tended can survive when thrust outside among weeds and… Continue reading A Child’s World of Animals
How did the campus become one-sided? @VDHanson @HooverInst
The mythical in American politics; & What is to be done? @VDHanson @HooverInst
The Classicist: E225. What Killed Higher Education?
Eeyore’s Cabinet: California Dreaming
If one came from Mars and examined the policies of the California legislature, courts, state-wide officials and governor, one would conclude that it is designed to destroy the emerging Mexican-American middle class (if we can even use such a sloppy term for vastly increasing numbers of so-called mixed marriages and families). The cause ultimately is… Continue reading Eeyore’s Cabinet: California Dreaming
Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system? Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives? Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition. 1) There was… Continue reading Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?
Greatest Music of All Time: #379 – Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson has a conversation with Tom Cridland about some of his favourite music: Bob Dylan – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – All the Roadrunning, Nick Cave – The Rider Song, Kristoffer Fogelmark – Love Was My Alibi and Hans Zimmer – You’re So Cool. He also discusses his… Continue reading Greatest Music of All Time: #379 – Victor Davis Hanson
History Repeats Itself: Seth Leibsohn with Victor Davis Hanson
Optimism, Inc.: One Too Many Lies?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers I think daily, incrementally, insidiously the number of Americans that does not believe official Ministry of Truth communiques grows larger. And the number promulgating them for careerist purposes shrinks. The white-driven, Anti-Asian hate-crime spree lie is about dead. The data showed the very opposite: whites were under-represented as generic… Continue reading Optimism, Inc.: One Too Many Lies?