Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Our finally irony this week? Who is the White Privileg-ist of all? Hunter Biden, of course. What inner-city denizen, what white Deplorable from Butte would be given a pass if he left his crack pipe and substance in his rental car? Or was given an age and drug conviction […]
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness What will be the future of the mass hysteria spawned last summer? No one knows. But its destination, if unchecked, will be ethnic tensions and sectarian strife at best akin to those in Brazil and India—or at worst Lebanon, Syria, and Rwanda. Until just a few years ago, racial
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers No free society can long survive in such a climate of untruth when its media is an Orwellian ministry of truth, and the entire population is nursed on mendacity. We are now suffering through “Hunter’s laptop” psychodrama. Everyone knew in October 2020 that it was genuine—and dangerous to Joe
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers BLM and the Great Awokening will follow the same pattern as the Jacobins and McCarthyites. The Left quickly made its points that occasionally and wrongly police use undue force against black suspects. But it then simply went mute when it was a matter of ascertaining whether unarmed apprehended blacks
From A Polite and Ernest Semi-Angry Reader: Dear Mr. Hanson, I am a senior woman from Michigan, snowbird over the winter in Florida. I am so sad these days that anything written by either side is vituperative, mean spirited, and anger provoking. Your 10 new rules by radicals could have had a much nicer tone.
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Just appearing this week in the news are stories that our elite colleges have sent out letters of admissions. White applicants at many universities have been accepted at historic lows of about 28 percent (of a population base of 68-70 percent), despite the supposedly cherished tradition of ‘proportional representation.’ Will the
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Any nation’s well-being—as Americans know from their own illustrious history—hinges on only a few factors. Its prosperity, freedom, and stability depend on its constitutional and political stability. A secure currency and financial order are also essential, as is a strong military. Perhaps most important, however, is a first-rate, inductive