Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers To balance “Optimism, Inc.”, I offer occasional gloomy reflections on these revolutionary times. Drought, drought, drought… California did OK in March with rain and snow. It seemed for a brief moment as if the ongoing drought might end. Temperatures were below normal. The 6-7 feet of new snow in… Continue reading Eeyore’s Cabinet: Drought
Failures at Home, Dangers Abroad
Wealthy and Woke
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Ed Bastian makes $17 million a year as chief executive officer of Delta Airlines, Georgia’s largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta requires for its passengers to check-in. Yet most Americans… Continue reading Wealthy and Woke
‘Biden most radical President in decades’ Victor Davis Hanson on Trump 2024 & Georgia
Optimism Inc.: Serendipity on the Farm
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Yesterday I walked around the old perimeter of our home, 135-acre farm (all but 40 acres has been sold off and almost all relatives moved away). The almonds were in deep green-leaf, post-bloom glory (No one would believe by August, the now clean orchard will be dusty, faded and… Continue reading Optimism Inc.: Serendipity on the Farm
Laudator Temporis Acti
History is not the melodrama of faceless collectives, but a tragedy of complexities. We should not go quietly into the night and allow a current affluent, leisured and pampered generation to hijack the past, and damn it to perdition. Given the present’s own meager achievements, it has not earned the right to rename, cancel, and… Continue reading Laudator Temporis Acti
The Bill Bennett Show Special Feature: A Defense of Western Civilization with Bill Bennett, Conrad Black and Victor Davis Hanson
MLB Failing MLK
Victor Davis Hanson slams media coverage of deadly attack on Capitol police
Donald J. Trump: Joe Biden’s Best Friend
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The Pavlovian “Trump did it!” sums up Joe Biden’s fallback excuse when faced with any embarrassment. His own completely optional, self-created, illegal immigration disaster? Trump somehow caused it, despite leaving office with a stable and secure border. Vaccination rates soaring? There would be even more if not for Trump’s… Continue reading Donald J. Trump: Joe Biden’s Best Friend