Victor Davis Hanson In those days of a half-century ago, there were one or two porta-potties at most at the end of the rows, overused and smelly by noon. (Many were “farm-made” of plywood and not so easily drained and cleaned.) Water canteens were often ill-kept by contractors. What dribbled out was usually hot and …
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Victor Davis Hanson Raisins are dried grapes. For 100 years, Sun-Maid Raisins, the local co-op, insisted on dried Thompson seedless grapes, the green, seedless grapes you saw once in the store fresh (though in their natural smaller state, without being pumped up from the effects of gibberellic acid, stump and cane girdling, and weekly irrigation …
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Victor Davis Hanson A final postscript to why the rich Left does the damage it does. Having money gives one rule over a family, lots of money over a community, lots more over a state, lots, lots more over a nation. The leftwing multibillionaire feels his life’s lucre was not an advertisement for capitalism, much …
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Victor Davis Hanson But if we know how globalized wealth enriched sections of our economy, fueled the leftist takeover, and created would be philanthropic Napoleons intent on remaking the map, why did they use such wealth for such hard-core socialist agendas, so antithetical to how they earned their piles? Lots of reasons explain why cutthroat …
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Victor Davis Hanson In sum, when thousands of atheists and agnostics have access to all the world’s delights with unchecked riches, they both indulge and yet feel terrible about their excess and indulgence. And so, they find causes to redeem their psyches that must satisfy just two criteria: one, the hard, rough consequences of their …
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Victor Davis Hanson First, tell the Chinese that Pelosi is flying to China and will be escorted there militarily. Two, inform the Chinese that there is a new policy of reciprocity. Anything China outlaws in relation to America, America will outlaw to China. Farmland? If Americans cannot buy it in China, Chinese will not buy …
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Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Five. The Ukrainian war further whetted the Chinese beak. Our oil sanctions, thanks to huge Russian fuel purchases by India and China, are not working. Russia is now mercilessly grinding down the Ukrainians in a war of attrition. Europe is insidiously losing its enthusiasm for the war, as its winter …
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Victor Davis Hanson “Gentlemen. If you’re going to take Vienna, take Vienna.” Attributed to Napoleon So supposedly Napoleon reminded his generals of the need to go full bore to finish any planned campaign—or suffer the wages of perceived weakness despite the ambition of the agenda. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was unclear whether she should have gone …
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Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner The California governor, on the scent of a progressive effort to ensure Joe Biden does not run in 2024, is touring the country. Oddly, he talks of a “free” California, as he tries to contrast his record with the terms of Texas governor Greg Abbott and Gov. Ron DeSantis of …
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Victor Davis Hanson An Outsider’s Superficial Impressions For a supposed global recession, COVID pandemic, and war in Ukraine, Israel seems booming. Traffic is snarled. Tourist spots are full. Prices are high. People are upbeat. We talk about the ex-nihilo boom of modern China from a Maoist hellhole to a gleaming autocracy. But that was material …
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