Thought of the Day
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Water, Water and Not a Drop?Behind the national headlines are lots of other stories. Here in California, the Department of Water Resources and the Federal Bureau of Reclamation announced that they may not (be able to?) honor the meager 5% of the contracted water allotments of westside California farmers […]
Hundreds of thousands of deaths averted because of COVID vaccines
An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Recall the desperate early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in early Spring 2020. Researchers worried that the Spanish flu of 1918 that cost millions of American lives could be a possible model. The Imperial College of London released a projection of over 2 million deaths in […]
Is Racism Moral Now?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness “Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expediencies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people . . . ” —Damon Young, New York Times contributor “Over the past year, […]
The Angry Reader
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers From an Angry Reader, “Keep your shit views to yourself. You disgust me – go kiss trumps ass somewhere else. The armed insurrection was leaderless and officer Sicknick only was “allegedly” murdered? ??! You’re delirious you sick fuck”— Deb Chapple
Thoughts of the week
Victor Davis Hanson // Week In Review We do not know when we hit peak wokeness—only that no constitutional republic can long exist in a climate of McCarthyite fear and anti-racism racism. I wrote about this crux for next week’s American Greatness (“Anti-Racism Racism”) in a long essay that will appear on Monday. It refutes the idea that […]
The Nature of Chinese Contempt for US
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness LAST WEEK IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, CHINESE diplomats dressed down Biden Administration Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Both seem stunned by the Chinese broadsides. Apparently, as elite Americans readily confess to inherent white supremacy and racism—highlighting the complaints of BLM and Antifa—the Chinese are […]
Follow The ‘Science,’ They Said
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Throughout the Trump years and in particular during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis, the nation was lectured by the Left “to follow the data,” as the Democrats proclaimed themselves the “party of science.” As sober and judicious children of the enlightenment, they alone offered the necessary disinterested correctives to […]
In a Feeble Position
Victor Davis Hanson // VDHPodcast Victor discusses America’s new class warfare, the foreign-policy consequences of our Feeble POTUS, the Biden Administration’s getting out-manipulated by Red China and Russia…..
Getting the facts right on Operation Warp Speed
An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Former President Donald Trump formally announced Operation Warp Speed (OWS) on May 15, 2020. OWS was constituted as a projected $18 billion business-government-military partnership, charged to “produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy […]
Angry Reader 03-22-2021
From A Not Angry Reader: Dear Professor Hanson, I am not an angry reader. I am an eternally grateful reader who only hopes to see this on your “Dear Angry Reader” page so that I know you read my note. In your latest podcast you state that Rush Limbaugh is irreplaceable. Perhaps. I don’t know. […]
The Rand Paul-Anthony Fauci Smack Down
Listen to “The Rand Paul-Anthony Fauci Smack Down” on Spreaker. Listen to Victor Davis Hanson starting at the 20-minute mark
Follow the “Science,” They Say
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Throughout the Trump years and in particular during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis, the nation was lectured by the Left “to follow the data,” as the Democrats proclaimed themselves the “party of science.” As sober and judicious children of the enlightenment, they alone offered the necessary disinterested correctives to […]
Diplomatic Lessons?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers A forty-something inexperienced JFK in June 1961 was clobbered at the Vienna summit by Nikita Khrushchev—and learned the USSR interpreted magnanimity and earnestness as weakness to be exploited not reciprocated. (Read about the Summit) The same happened this week in Anchorage to our Secretary of State Blinken and National […]