2022
Two Antithetical Billionaires
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. He properly grew up on the Stanford campus, where his parents were well-known left-wing activist law professors. He went to a tony prep school and on to MIT. Bankman-Fried mocked society’s bourgeois capitalist conventions by dressing and looking …
VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Seven
Victor Davis Hanson Soon the affluent woke went even further in their hubris. More statues were toppled, more names changed, more dangerous laws passed. Somehow in the mass madness of iconoclasm even the statues of Cervantes and Frederick Douglas were to be desecrated, along with monuments along Washington’s National Mall. The common denominator apparently was …
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VDH UltraWoke Swapping
Victor Davis Hanson Imagine this counterfactual—what if a President Donald Trump had released Viktor Bout from a U.S. prison? He is the convicted, notorious international arms dealer, who had supplied sophisticated weapons to help kill Americans abroad. And further imagine he gave up Bout in exchange for just one white, male, conservative athlete, known for …
Our Parasitic Generation
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Be assured young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” — Adam Smith Are we sure that there is all that much ruin left in the United States? We are $31 trillion in collective debt. The new normal is $1.5 trillion budget deficits. The military …