Never Let a Plague Go To Waste
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded them. They picked and chose which businesses could stay open without much rationale. They sent the infected into rest homes occupied by the weak and vulnerable. Their […]
VDH’s The Traditionalist: Who Can Be Trusted?
Victor Davis Hanson Show // June 3, 2021 Introducing the new home for the “Victor Davis Hanson Show” published by John Solomon’s Just the News on the Art19 platform. This is the permanent home for the show which features episodes of “The Traditionalist” and “The Classicist.” We hope you enjoy.
Eeyore’s Cabinet: Living in Our Kingdom of Lies
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One Isn’t it true that almost every “big” news story of the last four years has proved to be an utter lie? Moscow Fantasies Do we even remember the months of the Russian collusion lies? The daily fare that in one hour or so Trump would be indicted […]
COVID science perverted by elites for ideological and financial gain: Victor Davis Hanson
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Optimism, Inc.: The Exhilaration of Being Ostracized
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Has Any of This Happened to You? Reader, confess the following. If you voted for Trump, or even were suspected of such, has at least one of the following things happened to you? A once close associate (or was it a grandson, uncle, cousin, or in-law?), perhaps even one of […]
A New Regressive Dark Ages
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Once upon a time long ago, we agreed there were certain immutable laws of human nature. These laws were based on facts, reality, and data. In other words, we accepted common sense about the way the world worked according to logical and even “scientific” principles. That assumption defined us […]
A Child’s World of Animals
Part II. The Dark Grove In the 1880s when the eastern San Joaquin Valley began to be populated with vineyardists and orchard men, there was a shortage of construction-grade wood. Farmers needed lumber that would not rot as fence posts, vineyard stakes, and barn trusses. The Sierra redwood (the majestic Sequoiadendron giganteum), thank God, earlier on was […]
The Traditionalist – The Halls of Congress and Cultural Decadence
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler // Private Papers
Will the 2020 Madness Last?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The COVID-19 pandemic is ending with mass vaccinations. So is the national quarantine. The riots, arson, and looting of the 2020 summer are sputtering out—leaving violent crime in their wake. The acrimony over the 2020 election fades. Trump Derangement Syndrome became abstract when Donald Trump left office and was […]
A Child’s World of Animals.
Part I. Enchanted Dangers To a boy six or seven, great-horned owls proved terrifying. You would walk through the Santa Rosa plum orchard at dawn. Then suddenly this huge, hidden monster would spring out from a tree trunk and sweep through the row, about three feet off the ground, right on by you. His six-foot […]
Feet-of-Clay Icons
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Americans mostly have given up on familiar institutions for entertainment, guidance, or reassurance. What now do Hollywood, network news, the media in general, Silicon Valley, the NBA, NFL, MLB, or higher education all have in common? A propensity to lecture Americans on their moral inferiorities, a general ethical decline […]
Historian’s Corner: The Firebombing of Japan
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Three. The Nihilist Logic of Death Once the sick dogs of war are unleashed, legalized murder has a Satanic logic of its own. In the US case, the agenda from December 8 onward was how to end the war as quickly as possible that it did not start […]
Biden gives Putin the Nord Stream prize and gets nothing in return
An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Much has been made of President Biden’s comment that “Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal for Europe.” Yet with the announcement by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Nord Stream 2 sanctions are not in the U.S. national interest and will be waived, the Russian-financed European pipeline should glide […]