Eeyore’s Cabinet

Victor Davis Hanson James Clapper has admitted to lying to Congress about the illegal activities of the National Security Agency under his direction. Clapper used his titles and tenures to revolve in and out of lucrative billets in private security agencies prior to and following his federal position—raising the ire of watchdogs that alleged he […]

Victor Davis Hanson And urban man, what of the antithetical municipal mind?  He too is conditioned by his landscape, with one caveat: whereas he now is the vast majority of the population, at the founding he was a tiny minority. Perhaps, then the Constitution did not particularly have in mind an urban society when it

Victor Davis Hanson It has been snowing, raining, and flooding in California for nearly a month. So great is the deluge that our “climate scientists,” who warned us of a permanent drought and the end of a snow-capped Sierra and green spring coastal foothills, and who until this week admonished us that the “drought is

Victor Davis Hanson Clips from the inane The View are appearing on cable news of Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin speculating that some conservative conspiracy explains Joe Biden’s scattered storage of his vice-presidential papers, among them classified documents, at rooms in his home, his “think tank” office in Washington, D.C., and his Corvette garage. We

Victor Davis Hanson There are now two concurrent Washington, D.C.-area dramas. One is the last gasp of the politically motivated January 6th Committee hearings. The proceedings have been restarted to coincide with the final stretch of the midterms and to give Rep. Lynn Cheney a last appearance of political legitimacy, before in defeat she loses

Victor Davis Hanson Most think it likely that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will run against a probable candidate Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. If so, we can expect the following: 1) DeSantis will run on the Trump MAGA agenda. There will be no challenge on the major issues. There will be no Never Trump

Victor Davis Hanson Since the Left cannot win over 51 percent of the population to its border, energy, crime, economic, social, foreign, and race-based policies, it turns to its near monopoly over institutions—academia, the media, Big Tech, the administrative state, the corporate boardroom, K-12, entertainment and sports and the foundations—to wage a propaganda and cultural

Victor Davis Hanson We are in the middle of a grand effort to create an equality-of-result, race-based, radical Jacobin society. It is by design entirely antithetical to the Founders’ constitutional republic. And the revolutionary agenda is overseen by an exempt bicoastal oligarchy. The enforced equality of result will, of course, be mandated by elites not

Victor Davis Hanson As I said, I was a good picker but a lousy farmer inspector. Whether I yelled at the offender depended on whether he was young, male, and a gang banger (yes, demand a good job), or old, tired, and trying (no, let him pass). At ten I once said to my grandfather