2022

How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The current “media”— loosely defined as the old major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, the network news channels, MSNBC and CNN, PBS and NPR, the online news aggregators like Google, Apple, and Yahoo, and the social media giants like the old Twitter and Facebook—are corrupt. They have adopted in […]

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VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson The Brawley-Sharpton legacy can help to explain these latter psychodramas like the Smollett caper and the Duke Lacrosse lies. Fabricated “racist” physical or verbal attacks on innocent people of color feed national hysteria. They are usually followed by the embarrassing truth that causes no embarrassment, much less apologies. Instead, again for the

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If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand. Make war on coal and

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VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Do we remember the Duke Lacrosse and more recently the Duke Volleyball fake news accounts? If we do, it is likely in the context that while both were fake news stories, they remain important because their falsities served as teachable moments simply because they can remind us that they could in theory

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VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson What follows is an extended analysis of how the Left obtains power without agendas that win popular support, and how such aggrandizement inflames social relations and national unity. The progressive media—which constitute the majority of print newspapers, network news, public radio and TV, Google/Apple/Yahoo news, and the best-funded online venues—have fused with

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