Why Are They Woke?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of 2020. Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. Instead, for some, it illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one’s own
A Child’s Garden of Animals
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One: The Fear of and Reverence for the “Hoop Snake” I don’t know when and how Joe Caron (I have slightly altered the name) moved to our farm in the 1950s, or maybe it was earlier right after the war before I was born. My earliest memories of
The Culturalist: Great Leaders in History
Or Men Who Freed Slaves Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson with his cohost Sami Winc discuss the life and legacy of the Theban general of the 4th century BC Epamenondas and Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. Share This
The Biden No-Go Zone
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness In American journalism, there are supposed to be some clear, nonnegotiable third-rails. One is zero tolerance for overtly racist language and comportment among our movers and shakers. Reporters, for example, for four years damned Donald Trump for his neutralizing summation that there were both “fine people” and extremists mingled
Historian’s Corner: Assessing America in the Age of Woke
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Three Militarily The Left used to march on the Pentagon; now it runs it from the inside. Secretary of Defense Austin represents the new profile of a defense secretary and upper-echelon of the military. In exchange, upon retirement and without criticism from the Left for revolving right onto