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 […]
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 […]