Eeyore’s Cabinet: When Is Some Hatred, Some Racism OK?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One A canon of the Left has always been that “words matter.” But do they? Only sometimes, and selectively so. So when Trump, for example, insisted on calling the SARS-CoV-2 virus the “China virus”—in a manner of the 1918 “Spanish flu,” or the way the Left did in the […]
The Traditionalist: To Plague Or To Be Plagued
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 & Just the News Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss Biden, the Harris faction, the new evidence on COVID and its cures, and whether America is slumping into cultural and political regression.
The Lethal Wages of Trump Derangement Madness
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Think about it: For about five years, anything candidate, president-elect, and President Trump said or did, the media, the Left, and progressive popular culture opposed in Pavlovian fashion. Anything that Trump touched was ridiculed or discredited—regardless of evidence, data, or cogency. The merits of a Trump policy, a Trump assessment, a […]
Eeyore’s Cabinet: Living in Our Kingdom of Lies
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two There were a few more lies we lived with in our Kingdom of Untruth. The Satanic Andrew Cuomo Deification Over last summer and early fall 2020, Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo reached mythic media proportions. His ingratitude was enshrined as New York, “get-used-to-it, buddy” chutzpah. Yes, […]
The Classicist: Memories for Memorial Day
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 // Private Papers Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss the firebombing of Japan, Battlefield Monuments Commission, and favorite war movies.
A “Witch Hunt Trial” Is Underway in the U.S.
Victor Davis Hanson // The Liberty Web It has been more than three months since the Biden administration took office. What are your impressions of President Biden and his administration, and what kind of change do you see in the U.S. in the future? (You pointed out that Biden is proving to be the Biden […]
Never Let a Plague Go To Waste
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded them. They picked and chose which businesses could stay open without much rationale. They sent the infected into rest homes occupied by the weak and vulnerable. Their […]
VDH’s The Traditionalist: Who Can Be Trusted?
Victor Davis Hanson Show // June 3, 2021 Introducing the new home for the “Victor Davis Hanson Show” published by John Solomon’s Just the News on the Art19 platform. This is the permanent home for the show which features episodes of “The Traditionalist” and “The Classicist.” We hope you enjoy.
Eeyore’s Cabinet: Living in Our Kingdom of Lies
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One Isn’t it true that almost every “big” news story of the last four years has proved to be an utter lie? Moscow Fantasies Do we even remember the months of the Russian collusion lies? The daily fare that in one hour or so Trump would be indicted […]
COVID science perverted by elites for ideological and financial gain: Victor Davis Hanson
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Optimism, Inc.: The Exhilaration of Being Ostracized
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Has Any of This Happened to You? Reader, confess the following. If you voted for Trump, or even were suspected of such, has at least one of the following things happened to you? A once close associate (or was it a grandson, uncle, cousin, or in-law?), perhaps even one of […]
A New Regressive Dark Ages
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Once upon a time long ago, we agreed there were certain immutable laws of human nature. These laws were based on facts, reality, and data. In other words, we accepted common sense about the way the world worked according to logical and even “scientific” principles. That assumption defined us […]
A Child’s World of Animals
Part II. The Dark Grove In the 1880s when the eastern San Joaquin Valley began to be populated with vineyardists and orchard men, there was a shortage of construction-grade wood. Farmers needed lumber that would not rot as fence posts, vineyard stakes, and barn trusses. The Sierra redwood (the majestic Sequoiadendron giganteum), thank God, earlier on was […]
The Traditionalist – The Halls of Congress and Cultural Decadence
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler // Private Papers
Will the 2020 Madness Last?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The COVID-19 pandemic is ending with mass vaccinations. So is the national quarantine. The riots, arson, and looting of the 2020 summer are sputtering out—leaving violent crime in their wake. The acrimony over the 2020 election fades. Trump Derangement Syndrome became abstract when Donald Trump left office and was […]