Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Victimizers quickly becoming victims is a recurrent theme of Thucydides’ history. In his commentary on the so-called stasis at Corcyra, he offers his most explicit warning about the long-term dangers of destroying legal institutions, customs, and traditions that serve the common good for short-term gain. The historian notes that in the […]
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The world may be increasingly baffled by 2021 America, and its sudden scapegoating of “white supremacist” hobgoblins for problems it cannot or will not solve. Roughly 400 Americans were shot over the past July 4 holiday weekend. About 150 of them were killed. The majority, both of the shooters
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Join Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc as they discuss immigration in the late, declining Roman Empire and the current chaos on our border. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Three: Puppydom The grandchildren of the hippies and the children of the Yuppies? They are a different, a hybrid bunch altogether. They combine all the worst traits of both leftist eras: selfishness, performance art, the I/me/my/mine self-infatuation (“my story,” “my truth,” “my narrative”), crudity, vulgarity and rudeness of
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two: Yuppiedom The nihilism of the protests movements, the drop-outs’ human wreckage, the end of the draft and American involvement in Vietnam, and the ‘silent majority’ reaction to hippiness, all ended the Sixites, albeit in the 1970s. George McGovern’s landslide loss to Richard Nixon in 1972 marked the
Victor Davis Hanson // Megyn Kelly Show Link is below. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-on-defunding-police-woke-warriors/id1532976305?i=1000527335497 Share This
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Critical Race Theories and the Left, new evidence from Hunter’s laptop, Trump and 2024, and the 4th of July. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One: Hippiedom The Sixties were, as the late, great Peter Collier and the astute David Horowitz wrote, the work of a “Destructive Generation.” Some of the best minds of the conservative movement who lived through those wasted years chronicled their excesses—the narcissism, the selfishness, and the legacy of