Victor Davis Hanson One characteristic of wokism is the promotion of the mediocre on the basis of ideological correctness—a formula to attract incompetent careerists and toady opportunists. One characteristic of National Socialism that we rarely emphasize was its destruction of merit. “Jewish physics” translated into the expulsion of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in Nazi […]
VDH and co-host Jack Fowler discuss the left’s destruction of some of America’s greatest cities through their policies and ideology of being light on crime. Also, more Biden family corruption, the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, and the relationship between what the Soviets did with athletes and what we see today with males competing
Victor Davis Hanson The outbreak of ideological madness is not new to the 21st century. The historian Thucydides in the third book of his history (written sometime from ca. 420–390 B.C.) paused from his general account of the war to chronicle a cycle of ideological-driven violence on the island of Corcyra (modern Corfu) during the
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline—until it began to implode. Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the 2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the deranged fixation on removing
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss lawfare in Washington, DC, the Islamic wars of expansion, and Biden’s diplomacy disaster. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson What caused a near septuagenarian to have a near death experience with a ridiculous bee (or wasp?), one who had been suffering from “Covid euphoria”—the syndrome of finally getting over long Covid and feeling invincible while exaggerating normal health into a sort of divine deliverance and jubilance—suddenly to return to square one?
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this Friday’s news round-up: Tennessee legislator Justin Pearson, leaker at the Department of Defense arrested, the pursuit of Clarence Thomas, lawyers from the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Bob Lee’s assailant arrested. Share This
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss having it both ways on Afghanistan, chaos in France, the origin of the word “chaos”, and cancel culture assailing both the use of “ladies” and the Audubon Society. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States? Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency? Why are Japan and India shrugging that they cannot follow the United States’ lead in boycotting Russian oil? Why
Victor Davis Hanson I drifted out a bit again and woke up, maybe a minute later (so it felt like, psychodramatically, but I wager it was only a few seconds). Five minutes later, I crawled to the door to meet the paramedics and made it outside to the steps. An especially calm and polite woman