Biden Mocks Ancient Wisdom
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Human nature stays the same across time and space. That is why there used to be predictable political, economic, and social behavior that all countries understood. The supply of money governs inflation. Print it without either greater productivity or more goods and services, and the currency cheapens. Yet America […]
A Child’s World of Animals
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Three At 10 or 11, we graduated to do more of the shooting—with more of the same repetitious caveats, “Never shoot a bird on the wire.” I shot instead cottontails with another of my dad’s ancient guns, a 1890 Winchester .22 pump. I brought the carcasses to my grandfather around 5 PM on […]
Words That Don’t Matter
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers From time to time, I’ll try to update our contemporary American vocabulary. Diversity/Diverse This noun and its adjective have lost all currency. Ostensibly, diversity assumes that variety in general is better than uniformity. In some cases, perhaps it is, although the Japanese, for example, might argue their homogenous society avoids many of […]
A Child’s World of Animals
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two Was my Dad a militarist? Hardly. He was a farmer and junior college administrator, who hated war and swore to me once when I turned 18 and waited for my lottery number: “No one in this family ever volunteers and no one is ever going to refuse […]
Biden vs Republicans: The next 100 days and beyond
Mikio Sugeno and Alex Fang // Nikkei Asia Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Q: You have called the Biden presidency “the most radical first three months of a presidency since 1933, the most divisive and certainly the most dangerous.” Can you elaborate? A: Biden’s policies of de facto open borders, blanket amnesties, […]
Tuning Out Wokism
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness If wokeness should continue and “win,” by now we all know where it will end up. After all, this is not a prairie-fire, peasants-with-pitchforks, spontaneous bottom-up revolution. The woke Left seeks a top-down erasure of America, engineered by the likes of LeBron James from his $40 million estate talking […]
VDH Podcast: The Traditionalist
VDH and his co-host Jack Fowler open with their first episode on the latest news.
A Child’s World of Animals
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One One of the problems of the modern world is our helicopter society of well-meant, but over-parentage. Or is it the belief that the more we shield and protect our children, the safer they become, as if a houseplant carefully tended can survive when thrust outside among weeds and […]
Eeyore’s Cabinet: California Dreaming
If one came from Mars and examined the policies of the California legislature, courts, state-wide officials and governor, one would conclude that it is designed to destroy the emerging Mexican-American middle class (if we can even use such a sloppy term for vastly increasing numbers of so-called mixed marriages and families). The cause ultimately is […]
Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system? Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives? Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition. 1) There was […]
Greatest Music of All Time: #379 – Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson has a conversation with Tom Cridland about some of his favourite music: Bob Dylan – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – All the Roadrunning, Nick Cave – The Rider Song, Kristoffer Fogelmark – Love Was My Alibi and Hans Zimmer – You’re So Cool. He also discusses his […]
Optimism, Inc.: One Too Many Lies?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers I think daily, incrementally, insidiously the number of Americans that does not believe official Ministry of Truth communiques grows larger. And the number promulgating them for careerist purposes shrinks. The white-driven, Anti-Asian hate-crime spree lie is about dead. The data showed the very opposite: whites were under-represented as generic […]
The Bleak Biden Way
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness After a hundred days of President Biden, I think most Americans are now on to what will follow in the next few years. Joyless Joe Biden frowns. He grimaces. He occasionally barks and yells as he delivers a gloomy view of America and its people, past and present. Admit […]