The Genesis of our American Collective Meltdown
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness This Fourth of July holiday we might pause for a moment from our festivities to ask how we collectively lost our minds over the last 15 months—and are we yet regaining any semblance of our sanity? A pandemic caused by the leak of a Chinese-engineered virus and its coverup […]
The Culturalist: Water Is the Blood of Agriculture
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc explain water for agriculture in Ancient Greece and modern California.
Words Matter—Or Not: The Biden Vocabulary of the Times
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Armed insurrection—a motley mob riot with no leaders, no firearms, no plans, and resulting in five fatalities, four from natural causes and one shot while unarmed by an unnamed police officer. Assault—anything but 120 days of rioting, looting and arson, $2 billion in damage, 25 killed, and 14,000 arrested. […]
Eeyore’s Cabinet: The Paradoxes of Woke Racism
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two. Here are the last two of five observations about our current woke racial mania. 4. What were race relations like before the death of George Floyd? Did stats show that of the millions arrested each year by police, unarmed blacks were disproportionally lethally shot? Does a systemically […]
Has the Military Lost Middle America
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender. Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically “overrepresented” in offering the ultimate […]
Questioning Biden’s ability can be a ‘bipartisan endeavor’: Victor Davis Hanson
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Exclusive: Victor Davis Hanson on the Assault on Meritocracy, Politicization of the Virus, and the ‘Platonic Noble Lie’
There will be “no safe space, no sanctuary from wokeism until the system starts to erode the safety and the security of the elite that created it,” says classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson. In this episode, Hanson breaks down the problems he sees plaguing American society today, from the assault on meritocracy to the “Frankenstein […]
Eeyore’s Cabinet: The Paradoxes of Woke Racism
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One Here are the first three of five observations about our current woke racial mania. 1. Are the non-white elite in government, universities, entertainment, and the corporate world who rail about “whiteness,” “systemic racism,” and pathological “whites” in general mostly referring to their own elite white colleagues? Are […]
The Cruel Progressive Creed Undoing Civilization
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Debt is suffocating us. Our currency is on its way to being Lebanonized. Most major American cities are broke, dirty, unsafe, and run by either corrupt incumbents, neo-Marxists, or both. The law is optional, and applied asymmetrically on the basis of race and ideology. The past is found guilty […]
The Culturalist: Shiloh and Wuhan
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the cultural significance of the Battle of Shiloh and the Year of the Wuhan Virus.
A Child’s Garden of Animals
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two: The Fear of and Reverence for the “Hoop Snake” For the next week after that warning about hoop snakes on the prowl as veritable animal unicyclists, I looked hourly for hoop snakes—shovel in hand—but never found a single one or even their bike-tire like trails. Yet Joe […]
Why Are They Woke?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of 2020. Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. Instead, for some, it illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one’s own […]
A Child’s Garden of Animals
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One: The Fear of and Reverence for the “Hoop Snake” I don’t know when and how Joe Caron (I have slightly altered the name) moved to our farm in the 1950s, or maybe it was earlier right after the war before I was born. My earliest memories of […]