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 […]
The Culturalist: Great Leaders in History
Or Men Who Freed Slaves Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson with his cohost Sami Winc discuss the life and legacy of the Theban general of the 4th century BC Epamenondas and Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman.
The Biden No-Go Zone
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In American journalism, there are supposed to be some clear, nonnegotiable third-rails. One is zero tolerance for overtly racist language and comportment among our movers and shakers. Reporters, for example, for four years damned Donald Trump for his neutralizing summation that there were both “fine people” and extremists mingled […]
Historian’s Corner: Assessing America in the Age of Woke
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Three Militarily The Left used to march on the Pentagon; now it runs it from the inside. Secretary of Defense Austin represents the new profile of a defense secretary and upper-echelon of the military. In exchange, upon retirement and without criticism from the Left for revolving right onto […]
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Assessing America in the Age of Woke
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two Culturally The Left has atomized traditionalist American culture. Campus curricula are designed to indoctrinate and graduate cultural Marxists. Society itself is already seeing the result in a general decline in services and professions as the academic quality of college graduates continues to erode. When we get official […]
The Classicist: The Roots of Left Ideology and Its Detritus
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler, and find out how racist are the anti-racists, how citizenship should replace the Left’s racial tribalism, how Marx and Freud developed the two most destructive ideas of the 19th century, and how the new bureaucratic power is producing […]
Victor Davis Hanson speaks at Hanford Rotary
Donald A. Promnitz // The Sentinel Author and historian Victor Davis Hanson visited Hanford to discuss the social and political lessons learned from 2020. Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and chairs the Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict. He is also a […]
A Chinese Lab Virus? So What Now?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness For over a year, the American establishment and media borg have ostracized anyone who dared to connect the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic with the Chinese military-sponsored, level-4 biosafety Wuhan Institute of Virology. Then, suddenly and without apologies for their past demagoguery, “journalists” and “experts” concede that the nearby […]
The Traditionalist: All the Lies and Pretense
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler talk about Toobin’s folly, Fauci’s fraud, Biden-Harris diplomacy, and the price of Trump derangement syndrome. Does the new American right have an answer to all the dissimulation?
Historian’s Corner: Assessing America in the Age of Woke
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One Wokism took off in June 2020. It became institutionalized after Joe Biden became president. We have now had nearly five months of the radical Biden political agenda to seep through the larger popular culture. So where are we now in this suddenly strange and nearly unrecognizable land? […]
Anatomy of the Woke Madness
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Wokeism has become our most popular secular religion—at least for a moment dethroning climate change. It reduces all of the past and present into puerile binaries between “whites” and “non-whites.” Its aim is for the present generation to rewrite our history—whether by The 1619 Project and cancel culture or iconoclastic statue-toppling […]
The Culturalist: Finding Ancient Greece’s Homer and Tragedians
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News
VDH UltraOptimism, Inc: Dante’s California Inferno—Nine months later.
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Two weeks ago, I drove up Route 168 to Huntington Lake, sometimes known as Lakeshore, California. I had not been there since winter. I have a small house up there, at nearly ground zero of the “Creek Fire” (September to December 2020) that devoured much of the central Sierra […]
Eeyore’s Cabinet: When Is Some Hatred, Some Racism OK?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two Here are some puerile comments from a Sarah Jeong 2018 rant on social media. She was appointed for a while to the New York Times editorial board, which is usually and otherwise bothered by racial venom: Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, […]
The Classicist: The Value of Studying the Classics
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 // The Victor Davis Hanson Show