2021

Incompetence + Arrogance = Woke

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness We know the nature of mass hysterias in history, and how they can overwhelm and paralyze what seem to be stable societies.   We know the roots and origins of the cult of wokeness.   And we know, too, how such insanity—from the Salem witch trials to Jacobinism to McCarthyism—can spread,

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What Is Woke Really About?

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Most Americans were as indifferent to the unexpected loss of our Olympic women’s soccer team as they were once excited about their World Cup win.  In between was the team’s nonstop politicking, from whining about compensation to virtue signaling their disrespect for the United States. The celebrity face of

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VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Civilizational Death or Renewal?

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers History is replete with examples of societies in crises that either imploded or were destroyed, through internal and external forces—as well as those that met such dangers and endured.  Life or Death? Controversies remain over why the Western Roman Empire broke apart by the end of the 5th-century AD,

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China’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Stonewalling investigations into the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan? A hundred new hardened intercontinental nuclear missiles silos? Dressing down U.S. diplomats on purported American racism?  Braggadocio about nuking non-nuclear and once-nuked Japan, if need be? Winks and nods that Taiwan will soon be Hong-Kongized?   Hacking into Western institutions?   No

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