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 […]
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
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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
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This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it. One of their favorite psychodramatic mottos was “Change it or Lose it,” even as protests focused on drugs, music, race, class, sex, fashion—and almost anything and everything. Sixties radicals […]
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.