Victor Davis Hanson 2. The War on Gasoline and Diesel. The Democratic primary field of 2020 mostly demagogued energy. Each candidate sought to outdo a Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, promising to cancel pipelines, stop new federal leases, shut down ANWR, embrace the New Green Deal, leverage financial agencies not to lend to frackers and …
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Victor Davis Hanson One day Americans will look back at the nightmare of the last two years—COVID, the lockdowns, the riots, the 102 million mail-in ballots, the Biden catastrophe, the utter lawlessness, and the woke revolution—and properly understand it as one of the strangest and most dangerous periods in their modern history. The toll will …
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Victor Davis Hanson How Did It All Go to Hell—So Quickly? Where such pessimism? I have been abroad for ten days and trying to see America as others do not in America and talk and listen to them. And the observers are bewildered, as if our country is committing a two-year suicide. I confess too …
Victor Davis Hanson How Did It All Go to Hell—So Quickly? Of course, the last 17 disastrous months did not leap from the head of Zeus. Envision them as a pathology that was deeply embedded in the American immune system, one that finally turned into a near fatal illness after the wearied antibodies were finally …
Victor Davis HansonEeyore’s Corner So all the building blocks of a society, the hard work of centuries that separated civilization from barbarism, poverty, and death, these the Left either neglected as superfluous or attacked as antithetical to its utopian visions. Their targets were often the stuff of life, what separated a decent human society from …
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Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Corner Was the idea of zero-interest rates, printing money, running up multi-trillion-dollar deficits, and paying millions not to work—to create prosperity and to excise that evil, the monetary seriousness of the ghost of Milton Friedman? Did Biden believe his inflation would make all of us kings, or was it that he …
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Victor Davis HansonEeyore’s Corner Once affluent and leisured societies achieve postmodern complacency, watch out! Survival leads to surfeit that results in utopianism that ends in a reversion to tribalism, anarchy, and chaos—and a return to the very primitivism from which a society once advanced. So the Greeks thought civilizations aged like people, through muscular adolescence, …
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet NATO/Berlin NATO fed and petted the Putin tiger too. Germany fancied itself as a sort of NATO point of resistance to the U.S. Its public polls anti-American. Its politicians are culturally disdainful of America. Merkel’s reign ended in disaster, as she destroyed any chance of German energy independence from Russia …
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Putin, of course, is the guilty party for the ongoing destruction in Ukraine—in the manner that similar raptors like Hitler and Stalin caused the 1939 Poland catastrophe or China swallowed Hong Kong. We can talk all we want about British and French appeasement, American isolation, and Russian collusion that certainly …
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet So the bicoastal classes—the West that looks out on Asia, the East that is tied to the EU—feel their brains, their cattle-brand stamped degrees, their money, and their tastes have advanced them to Eloi status. Some are certainly brilliant and explain much of the current American GDP. That said, many …
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