Historian’s Corner

Victor Davis Hanson I remember the rain year of 1982 when we rolled 100,000 raisin trays in 24 hours and hired anyone who could help us save the crop on the ground. Finally, my dad on his operated knees saw my mom rolling in the next row over and called out, “Well, look at that, […]

Victor Davis Hanson About 20 minutes later I came upon another farmhouse, of all of them, the most completely run down (most of the land in these parts has been purchased by huge operations and the homes rented out to workers or undocumented). I stopped right in the street in my truck, as again the

Victor Davis Hanson There is no need to review in detail the January 6th buffoonish riot in the Capitol. Instead concentrate on the subsequent effort of the Left to construct it into an “armed insurrection” and “conspiracy” to overthrow the government—as a way of demonizing conservatives as violent traitors and deflecting the violence of summer

Victor Davis Hanson How many times since 2017 did we hear the cry, “25 Amendment!” to remove Donald Trump from office on grounds he was non compos mentis? Immediately upon taking office Foreign Policy ran an essay by Obamaite Rosa Brooks outlining a way to remove him through a) impeachment, b) the 25th Amendment, or

Victor Davis Hanson Think of any recent leftwing accusation against the Right. Then automatically assume that it is evidence of the accuser’s own culpability for the very charge he levels against others. In other words, the Left projects upon its opponents exactly what it fears is most incriminating among its own ranks. As a general

Victor Davis Hanson Almost anything or anyone the Left opposes is smeared as racist or a racist. And the rules are made only by the Left. The N-word is utterly racist. Yet it continues and obviously gains currency when rappers and comedians use it promiscuously on the assumptions that leftists and blacks cannot be racist

Victor Davis Hanson 3) Did Biden faithfully execute the laws of the land as he had sworn to upon Inauguration Day? More specifically, did Biden enforce existing federal immigration law and thus prosecute those who swarmed illegally across the U.S. border, and then further in illegal fashion resided with impunity in the U.S.? Or did

Victor Davis Hanson We know that Donald Trump was once impeached for calling up his Ukrainian counterpart and complaining that the Ukrainian government had been too involved with the corrupt Biden family. Trump then warned that if Ukraine did not clean up its quid-pro-quo act, he would delay approved military aid. And while Trump eventually

Victor Davis Hanson Instead, our elite social engineers focus on the black upper-middle class through vastly expanding affirmative action and recalibrating college admissions as reparatory rather than proportionally representative (i.e., 16 percent rather than the old 11 or 12 percent of a college’s new enrollment now shall be black). They capitalize Black. The bicoastal elite

Victor Davis Hanson Crime Everywhere Now we come to the current crime wave. We see weekly YouTube videos of the knock-out game, of Saturday night Al Capone-gangland massacring, of vulnerable joggers raped and killed, of a mother and her daughter carjacked, of a woman at a rail crossing murdered, of a petite woman pushed to