Eeyore’s Cabinet

Victor Davis Hanson Rural California, like rural America, in the 1960s now seems almost unrecognizable—not so much a different culture as a different universe. Since then, we certainly have advanced materially, but regressed morally. That paradox is often the way of the past as well, at least since some 2,700 years ago when Hesiod railed […]

Victor Davis Hanson STEP THREE. Change voting and government rules when they are no longer useful. Claim any customs and traditions that are no longer advantageous are mere racist relics or the baleful legacy of old white men. When in the majority, demand the end of the racist filibuster. When in the minority save it

Victor Davis Hanson What if you believed that the U.S. was in mortal danger because its elections continually led to the wrong results and policy choices? What if the “people” were just too ignorant of what was good for them and continually displayed such dangerous cluelessness in how they voted? How could you even work

Victor Davis Hanson The current Left is certainly not the party of Harry Truman or JFK—or for that matter even of Bill Clinton. Neither ordered the FBI to raid the home of their predecessors. It is a revolutionary, a Jacobin party intent not just on winning elections and implementing more redistribution, bigger government, and higher

Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet As of now the real and only question about 2024 is twofold, can Trump get the Republican nomination, and if nominated could he beat any non-Biden candidate? The answer is clearly yes on both counts. But then again, the second part of the answer in the general election is yes

Victor Davis Hanson Polls are all over the place variously attesting Trump can be nominated, but not beat Biden, that no one in either party wishes Biden to run, that DeSantis may on rare occasions in some states poll higher than Trump, and all that. But so far what do these for now mostly meaningless

Victor Davis Hanson We certainly have more freedom now, but from what? To have our 90-year-old mother in a scary home rather than in the back bedroom. To spot our supposedly “crazy” brother as a homeless person defecating in the street rather than living in the garage back home? Was the flight across the country

Victor Davis HansonEeyore’s Cabinet We got our first key to our farmhouse around 1968. Prior to that we never locked it when away. There was no such thing as bolt locks. Farms a half-century ago still grew people as well as food, not just food more cheaply and economically. Today only a madman would leave

Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Fifty years ago, I was 18 and a first-year student in college at the recently opened UC campus at Santa Cruz. Our drug- and sex-addled generation that emerged out of such colleges now brags about the material progress of the baby boomer techies, the moral superiority birthed in the 1970s,

Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Consider five self-evident banalities. Joe Biden has serially attacked the Saudi Arabian government after the Khashoggi murder. Fine, there is much to criticize among the Saudi monarchs. But did anyone believe that the Saudis in any sizable way would pump thousands of more barrels of oil per day to lower