Optimism, Inc. Part 2: Will Wokeness Finally Cannibalize Itself?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part 2: The First Russian-Under-Every-Bed Frenzy (prior to Adam Schiff) The Depression and the January 1, 1942 alliance with the Soviet Union had peaked American communist membership at 75,000. The treasonous Alger Hiss mentality in the State Department—the Soviets would be progressive postwar partners while the British imperialists faded […]
The Joe Biden Who Never Was
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness These are the most radical first three months of a presidency since 1933, the most divisive—and certainly the most dangerous. And its catalyst is the myth of ol’ Joe from Scranton who has unleashed furies and hatreds never quite seen in modern American history. “Woke” Joe Biden At an […]
Optimism, Inc.: Will Wokeness Finally Cannibalize Itself?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private PapersO Part 1: French Revolutionaries under the Guillotine This week I offer a few historical hopeful examples of why and how mass hysterias arise, consume, and die off. And I think the same pattern will follow with the ‘Great Awokening/BLM/racialization of everything.’ As it cannibalizes its own, Woke LTD is […]
Optimism, Inc.: COVID News
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers The more pessimistic the CDC, Dr. Fauci, and the Biden Administration sound on the pandemic, the more cautiously optimistic I become, albeit as a non-medical observer of the pandemic . I also do not mean that as a contrarian, but, after all, we are approaching a perfect storm of […]
How to Start a War
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Wars often arise from uncertainty. When strong powers appear weak, truly weaker ones take risks they otherwise would not. Sloppy braggadocio and serial promises of restraint alternatively trigger wars, too. Empty tough talk can needlessly egg on aggressors. But mouthing utopian bromides convinces bullies that their targets are too […]
Pigmentation Nation
VDH discusses the rationale behind the elites’ wokeness, the cannibalism of revolutions, how race trumps all, the mainstream media’s preference for the noble lie, and the value of the American iconoclast.
Victor Davis Hanson blasts Delta’s CEO on ‘wokeness’: ‘If you make $17M’ you’re ‘not committed to equity’
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Eeyore’s Cabinet: Noble Lies?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Americans are being saturated by a whirlwind of events never quite seen in recent memory. When a person with a gun or car now kills someone, the media—in anti-humanistic fashion, and quite callously— massages the story to fit deductive narratives. And they are based solely on the race of […]
Can the Great “Awakening” Succeed?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness We all know that we are living in revolutionary times. The origins, ascendence, values, laws, and future of the United States are all under assault by self-described, though accurately described, revolutionaries. It is a Jacobin, Bolshevik, or Maoist moment. All aspects of life, well beyond politics, are now to […]
Eeyore’s Cabinet: Drought
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers To balance “Optimism, Inc.”, I offer occasional gloomy reflections on these revolutionary times. Drought, drought, drought… California did OK in March with rain and snow. It seemed for a brief moment as if the ongoing drought might end. Temperatures were below normal. The 6-7 feet of new snow in […]
Wealthy and Woke
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Ed Bastian makes $17 million a year as chief executive officer of Delta Airlines, Georgia’s largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta requires for its passengers to check-in. Yet most Americans […]
Optimism Inc.: Serendipity on the Farm
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Yesterday I walked around the old perimeter of our home, 135-acre farm (all but 40 acres has been sold off and almost all relatives moved away). The almonds were in deep green-leaf, post-bloom glory (No one would believe by August, the now clean orchard will be dusty, faded and […]
Laudator Temporis Acti
History is not the melodrama of faceless collectives, but a tragedy of complexities. We should not go quietly into the night and allow a current affluent, leisured and pampered generation to hijack the past, and damn it to perdition. Given the present’s own meager achievements, it has not earned the right to rename, cancel, and […]