As the 2020 election season began, the New York Times, promised its readers a recalibration of American history called “The 1619 Project.” The ensuing series of essays and media kits had a twofold agenda. One was to rewrite the origins of American history as the four-century foreign intrusion into a pristine North America. It was …
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet By August 2020, the protests, demonstrations, riots, looting, and arson that followed from the national outrage over the killing of George Floyd had spread to most of America’s cities. But the furor over Floyd’s death was not the only catalyst of the protests. The previously instituted national quarantine—roughly from March …
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The Not Angry at All Readers Dear Professor Hanson, I hope all is well. I want to thank you for the scope and depth of your writings. The reason I am writing is the hope that you might be willing to respond to the questions below related to how you write: How do you get …
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Dr. Hanson, I’m a huge fan of your books, as well as your Classicist, Traditionalist, and Culturalist podcasts, and I have a quick question. I apologise if this is not the correct way to ask listener questions. When debating with people who lean to the left, I often find myself becoming angry or frustrated when …
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From An Angry Reader: You are a shit eating nazi. Trump eats my shit. The u.s. is a degenerate nation born of genocide and slavery. That’s the real history, not the lies you trot out. The “founding fathers” were mass murderers. SMASH THE U.S. EMPIRE From Mary Your six sentences say it all, proud Mary: …
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Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is another classical example of mission deviation and subsequent enfeeblement—a sort of organism that mutated from its birthing and now simply becomes anything it wishes. In 2010 while on a visit to Cairo, then NASA chief Charles Bolden told Al-Jazeera that President Obama …
Victor Davis HansonEeyore’s Cabinet We may never know the exact role of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in routing gain-of-function research money through the suspect Dr. Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance and on into the Wuhan virology lab. …
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From An Angry Reader: American women of every age would like old white men like you, Trump, Alito and more, to take your worn out dirty boots off of our necks! Your high opinion of Trump, a congenital liar, a narcissist, a fraud and a sociopathic misogynist says all we need to know about you. …
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Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Corner We talk nonchalantly of an open border, of “comprehensive immigration reform.” But we forget there are lives of the innocent transformed and sometimes wrecked by allowing thousands of foreign nationals without audit to enter the U.S. illegally and to reside here unlawfully, while we the host has lost all confidence …
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Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet We now have about 500-600 jurisdictions that are “sanctuary” cities, counties, and entire states—where progressive neo-Confederates have declared that federal law is now null and void in their safe spaces. But perhaps the most recent and dramatic instance of the nullification of state and local laws—“de facto nullification” as a …
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