2022

How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful

How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There is no end of history. Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked for the common good through the ages—and to reject what in the past has failed abysmally. Bad and bankrupt ideas, protocols, and ideologies—like McCarthyism, communism, various cults, or fascism—resurface not because of their

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VDH UltraAn Inferior Present Judges a Superior Past. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson So rote, habit, and the familiar were the secret to longevity. Anything that startled the body, the constitution, was seen as an infection, something that could warp a liver or heart, disrupt a healthy homeostasis. Getting on a plane, missing a connection, stressed to find another flight, crammed on with 150 other

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The Mysteries of Long COVID

The Mysteries of Long COVID

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. By far most survived COVID. But hundreds of thousands did not. American deaths now number well over 1 million. Amid the tragedy, there initially was some hope that the pernicious effects of the disease

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VDH UltraAn Inferior Present Judges a Superior Past. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Rural California, like rural America, in the 1960s now seems almost unrecognizable—not so much a different culture as a different universe. Since then, we certainly have advanced materially, but regressed morally. That paradox is often the way of the past as well, at least since some 2,700 years ago when Hesiod railed

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VDH UltraHow Democracy Dies in Darkness—in Five Easy Steps. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson STEP THREE. Change voting and government rules when they are no longer useful. Claim any customs and traditions that are no longer advantageous are mere racist relics or the baleful legacy of old white men. When in the majority, demand the end of the racist filibuster. When in the minority save it

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