VDH’s “The Woke Breaking Point” on The Classicist
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2021
Eeyore’s Cabinet: Where Does it All End?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Eeyore could continue, but what we are witnessing is unapologetic nihilism. We are engaged in a suicidal impulse to delight in primaeval tribalism, to destroy the entire concept of merit—and to erect in its place a Sovietized system largely overseen by middle-aged, privileged white people and minority elites, who as
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Eeyore’s Cabinet: The Racial Golden Calf
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers A multiracial democracy of the 21st century has abruptly begun worshiping superficial appearances, as it announces that everything from the order of vaccinations and farm aid to cash vouchers for the poor and dorm selections will be determined by race, in utter violation of the U.S. Constitution that is increasingly
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Optimism, Inc. Part 5: The Most Privileged of the Privileged?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Our finally irony this week? Who is the White Privileg-ist of all? Hunter Biden, of course. What inner-city denizen, what white Deplorable from Butte would be given a pass if he left his crack pipe and substance in his rental car? Or was given an age and drug conviction
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The New Racism Is the Old Racism
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness What will be the future of the mass hysteria spawned last summer? No one knows. But its destination, if unchecked, will be ethnic tensions and sectarian strife at best akin to those in Brazil and India—or at worst Lebanon, Syria, and Rwanda. Until just a few years ago, racial
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Eeyore’s Cabinet: 1984 Came and Nobody Cared
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers No free society can long survive in such a climate of untruth when its media is an Orwellian ministry of truth, and the entire population is nursed on mendacity. We are now suffering through “Hunter’s laptop” psychodrama. Everyone knew in October 2020 that it was genuine—and dangerous to Joe
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Optimism, Inc. Part 4: BLM, Inc.
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers BLM and the Great Awokening will follow the same pattern as the Jacobins and McCarthyites. The Left quickly made its points that occasionally and wrongly police use undue force against black suspects. But it then simply went mute when it was a matter of ascertaining whether unarmed apprehended blacks
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