Destroying Meritocracy Is Deadly

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection. In mid-December, a San Francisco-bound United Airlines Boeing 777-200 airliner, just a little over a minute after taking off from Maui, Hawaii, suddenly dived. It lost more than half its altitude and came within 800 feet of crashing into […]

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VDH UltraAmerican Graffities. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Drinking “Coors” was standard, Olympia was considered “piss water.” (I preferred Olympia because it tasted like water.) Again, almost everyone knew something about cars. (None knew much about our Volvo 544 and looked baffled when they opened the hood.) Most on Saturday nights parked out on someone’s safe-space farm, drank, talked, fought,

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VDH UltraAmerican Graffities. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson George Lucas’s American Graffiti is getting a lot of play recently. This year is the 50th anniversary of that brilliant film, depicting the fading high-school age of 1962 in small-town America—before the Sixties kicked in, Vietnam went to 500,000 American troops, and various cultural revolutions of the turn-on, tune-in, and drop-out sort

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Muddling, Befuddling, Fetterman, Trump, and Fauci

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Biden’s performance from SOTU to Super Bowl talk, Fetterman‘s recent political moves, Fauci’s mea culpa and the history of the Yalta conference. Share This

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Bombshells, Landmines, and Nemesis

For much of 2017 through 2021, Americans suffered the “bombshell” and “walls are closing” mythologies first of Russian collusion, then of supposedly vast Russian social media investments to sabotage the election. From there we moved on to the Alfa Bank ping-pong fable, the supposed Putin bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan that Trump was said

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Landmines and Reckonings

This weekend episode Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc devote to the various landmines that may trip up the Biden Administration. He then talks about the Never-Trumpers dilemma. Share This

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Our Broken Kaleidoscope

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the recent diplomacy of Turkey, India, and Ukraine. Then they examine transgendered activism and current cases of black-on-white violence. Share This

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