2021
VDH UltraOptimism, Inc: Dante’s California Inferno—Nine months later.
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Two weeks ago, I drove up Route 168 to Huntington Lake, sometimes known as Lakeshore, California. I had not been there since winter. I have a small house up there, at nearly ground zero of the “Creek Fire” (September to December 2020) that devoured much of the central Sierra
Eeyore’s Cabinet: When Is Some Hatred, Some Racism OK?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two Here are some puerile comments from a Sarah Jeong 2018 rant on social media. She was appointed for a while to the New York Times editorial board, which is usually and otherwise bothered by racial venom: Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun,
This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it. One of their favorite psychodramatic mottos was “Change it or Lose it,” even as protests focused on drugs, music, race, class, sex, fashion—and almost anything and everything. Sixties radicals
Eeyore’s Cabinet: When Is Some Hatred, Some Racism OK?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One A canon of the Left has always been that “words matter.” But do they? Only sometimes, and selectively so. So when Trump, for example, insisted on calling the SARS-CoV-2 virus the “China virus”—in a manner of the 1918 “Spanish flu,” or the way the Left did in the
The Traditionalist: To Plague Or To Be Plagued
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 & Just the News Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss Biden, the Harris faction, the new evidence on COVID and its cures, and whether America is slumping into cultural and political regression. Share This
The Lethal Wages of Trump Derangement Madness
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Think about it: For about five years, anything candidate, president-elect, and President Trump said or did, the media, the Left, and progressive popular culture opposed in Pavlovian fashion. Anything that Trump touched was ridiculed or discredited—regardless of evidence, data, or cogency. The merits of a Trump policy, a Trump assessment, a
Eeyore’s Cabinet: Living in Our Kingdom of Lies
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two There were a few more lies we lived with in our Kingdom of Untruth. The Satanic Andrew Cuomo Deification Over last summer and early fall 2020, Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo reached mythic media proportions. His ingratitude was enshrined as New York, “get-used-to-it, buddy” chutzpah. Yes,
The Classicist: Memories for Memorial Day
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 // Private Papers Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss the firebombing of Japan, Battlefield Monuments Commission, and favorite war movies. Share This