Victor Davis Hanson As we walked out of the now deserted class, Billy suddenly seemed upset and added, “We need to split up and get the f**k out of here.” And I said, “Why? They started it, and they were the violent ones. We were just staying in the class we paid for.” He said […]
Victor Davis Hanson My next occasion with the anti-war, Che Guevara, Santa Cruz Left followed the next spring, 1973. These were the final gasps of anti-war protests sputtering out over the very end of the Cambodia misadventure, with the U.S. Air Force bombing of Cambodia to save the pro-American Lon Nol government (the tail end
Victor Davis Hanson Oddly, I was not quite the final one to leave the amphitheater. The speaker herself also had strangely lingered to the last. So, by accident, I met a complete stranger, but apparently a well-known campus radical, at the very moment I reached the main exit aisle. We were the last two there.
Victor Davis Hanson As far as the noisy march down to the Santa Cruz courthouse, I remember that it went something like “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Nixon’s Gotta Go.” And the updated “Not in Our Name!” etc., etc. We two looked out of place given we had T-shirts and Levis on with baseball caps with
Victor Davis Hanson Americans have viewed a lot of recent demonstrations against ICE turn violent. They have watched leftists disrupt commemorations for the late Charlie Kirk, and harass Turning Point, USA information tables on campuses. Occasionally leftists find where Trump officials are walking, eating, or speaking and try to urge followers to “get in their
Victor Davis Hanson Why do foreign visitors so often do things in their host country that they would never dare to do at home? Why would anyone wave the flag of the hated country they fled and burn the flag of the nation they so sorely covet? If you are proud of your tribe, your
Victor Davis Hanson The grotesque assassination of Charlie Kirk by a pro-Antifa zealot Tyler Robinson, following the macabre throat slitting of 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska by a freed 14-felon Decarlos Brown, proved the proverbial straws that broke the national camel’s back. The status quo is over. Kaput. And what follows will not be the
Victor Davis Hanson After Domitian, some forty or more of the successive emperors were not Italian born. Most came from the Balkans or North Africa. The Western Empire was slowly eclipsed by the wealth of eastern provinces. But everywhere too much money predominated in the Neronian Age. Imported woods, gilt, and marble were the preferred
Victor Davis Hanson In the world of Petronius, cynicism rules. No one is who he professes to be—not bankrupt poets and pretentious intellectuals, not virtuous widows, not innocent youth. All are Epstein schemers of a sort of like our internet influencers and nobodies who become somebodies with vast audiences in the millions. Petronius’s cosmos (like
Victor Davis Hanson The century between AD 96–180 is perhaps analogous to our American era of 1890 to 1990 (from the Gilded Age through World War I, World War II, and the Cold War), which saw a century in which America de facto ruled the world, defeated its enemies, and achieved an unimaginable level of