Child’s Garden

VDH UltraNeighborly Theft

Victor Davis Hanson Before the onset of American latifundia (i.e., around the rise of globalization, ca. 2000), the environs here were a patchwork of small farmers, of 40, 60, 120, or 200 acres. All were family owned and worked. Most were diverse—combining vines (raisins, table grapes, or wine) and trees (plums, nectarines, peaches, or almonds …

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VDH UltraA Child’s Garden of Animals. Free-Ranging, Part Four.

Victor Davis Hanson More of the Harder Sort My great-uncle, my grandmother’s brother was one of the harder ones we saw on the free-range circuit. He grew up one of 12 siblings, impoverished, and rode a horse at 13 from New Mexico to Selma, California. His family, after a variety of tragedies, was destitute. And …

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