VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson The Brawley-Sharpton legacy can help to explain these latter psychodramas like the Smollett caper and the Duke Lacrosse lies. Fabricated “racist” physical or verbal attacks on innocent people of color feed national hysteria. They are usually followed by the embarrassing truth that causes no embarrassment, much less apologies. Instead, again for the […]

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Free Speech and Its Discontents

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about an Academic Freedom Conference at Stanford, classical v. therapeutic education, racism in San Francisco and modern anti-Semitism. Share This

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If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand. Make war on coal and

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VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Do we remember the Duke Lacrosse and more recently the Duke Volleyball fake news accounts? If we do, it is likely in the context that while both were fake news stories, they remain important because their falsities served as teachable moments simply because they can remind us that they could in theory

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VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson What follows is an extended analysis of how the Left obtains power without agendas that win popular support, and how such aggrandizement inflames social relations and national unity. The progressive media—which constitute the majority of print newspapers, network news, public radio and TV, Google/Apple/Yahoo news, and the best-funded online venues—have fused with

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Scott Atlas: Ordeal and Triumph

 Listen to Victor Davis Hanson interview Scott Atlas on his struggles with the Left, the administration and Stanford faculty during the Covid crisis. Share This

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Was Trump Our Captain Queeg?

Was Trump Our Captain Queeg?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Left, the NeverTrump Right, and many independents are tiring of Donald Trump’s recitations of prior, however justified, grievances at the hands of the media, the Democratic Party, the administrative state, and hard-core Left. The conventional wisdom runs that Trump’s whines and victimization recitations reveal deep paranoias, and increasingly to

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The Culture of Wealth and a Selma Thanksgiving

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for talk about Thanksgiving in Selma. First, they explore the recent case of Samuel Bankman-Fried and Klaus Schwab’s remarks at the World Economic Forum. Share This

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The Same Old, Same Old Déjà Vu

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith. But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid pro quo syndicate nor its incriminating confessionals on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Instead, it will further investigate Donald Trump’s possession of presidential records that were hauled off from

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