2021
Optimism, Inc.:Part 3: #MeToo Too?: More on What Ends Hysterias
There is no need to go over all the details of the recent #MeToo wave. Most supported the initial disclosures. Who could defend Weinstein, or the sexual narcissist Matt Lauer with his electric button-locked office, who parlayed his position into serial asymmetrical sexual trysts while he broadcast his progressive fides to the world? Soon major
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Optimism, Inc. Part 2: Will Wokeness Finally Cannibalize Itself?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part 2: The First Russian-Under-Every-Bed Frenzy (prior to Adam Schiff) The Depression and the January 1, 1942 alliance with the Soviet Union had peaked American communist membership at 75,000. The treasonous Alger Hiss mentality in the State Department—the Soviets would be progressive postwar partners while the British imperialists faded
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The Joe Biden Who Never Was
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness These are the most radical first three months of a presidency since 1933, the most divisive—and certainly the most dangerous. And its catalyst is the myth of ol’ Joe from Scranton who has unleashed furies and hatreds never quite seen in modern American history. “Woke” Joe Biden At an
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Optimism, Inc.: Will Wokeness Finally Cannibalize Itself?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private PapersO Part 1: French Revolutionaries under the Guillotine This week I offer a few historical hopeful examples of why and how mass hysterias arise, consume, and die off. And I think the same pattern will follow with the ‘Great Awokening/BLM/racialization of everything.’ As it cannibalizes its own, Woke LTD is
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Optimism, Inc.: COVID News
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers The more pessimistic the CDC, Dr. Fauci, and the Biden Administration sound on the pandemic, the more cautiously optimistic I become, albeit as a non-medical observer of the pandemic . I also do not mean that as a contrarian, but, after all, we are approaching a perfect storm of
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How to Start a War
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Wars often arise from uncertainty. When strong powers appear weak, truly weaker ones take risks they otherwise would not. Sloppy braggadocio and serial promises of restraint alternatively trigger wars, too. Empty tough talk can needlessly egg on aggressors. But mouthing utopian bromides convinces bullies that their targets are too
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