Victor Davis Hanson The correction for our oikophobia is obvious, requiring structural change and a complete transformation in our mindsets and outlook. First, our schools must reinstate civic education and reemphasize honest history. The latter must be taught as tragedy, not hokey, dumbed-down melodrama. Take the American West. We have reduced the historic settlement of […]
Victor Davis Hanson So why do we see these endless ICE, campus, race, and Middle East demonstrations, not aimed at reasonable dissent, but often descending into open hatred of the U.S. and its values and traditions? Why does Europe allow millions of immigrants, many entering illegally, who have no intention of assimilating, acculturating, or integrating
Victor Davis Hanson The Western world—Europe, many of the former British Commonwealth nations, the U.S., and Westernized allies in Asia—is still the envy of the world. Its aggregate economies make up more than half the world’s GDP. Nevertheless, while its population is only 14 percent of the world total, the top fifty countries on the
Victor Davis Hanson Susan Rice, one of the national security advisors under Barack Obama, in a recent interview warns universities, corporations, and elites of all types that anyone who has cooperated with Trump’s executive orders (largely on matters of following the Supreme Court’s anti-affirmative action rulings and Trump’s ban on DEI programs?) would face payback
Victor Davis Hanson Despite Bernie Sanders’ rants, four out of ten American households pay no income tax. And the bottom fifty percent in income, of those who do pay income tax, account for less than 3% of all federal income tax revenue. The top 50 percent of households pay 97% of all federal taxes. About
Victor Davis Hanson Fourth, China’s propaganda is also brilliant. It plugs right into woke/DEI ideology. As soon as it was clear, and it was quite soon, that the Covid-19 virus did not “leap” from some sick pangolin or bat far distant from the Wuhan Lab, and when it was uncovered that Dr. Fauci and Peter
Victor Davis Hanson Contrast the Russian Cold War with our current rivalry with a 1.4-billion-person China. Other than its size and strange combination of state-run/crony capitalism with Maoist totalitarianism, ostensibly, China should be no more difficult a rival than was the Soviet Union. Like Russia, it was a one-time ally of the U.S. in World
Victor Davis Hanson How did the U.S. win the 45-year-old Cold War with the former Soviet Union? And what can we learn from that victory in our current growing Cold War with communist China? 1) While often clumsy and counterproductive, the U.S. was mostly able to portray the Soviets not as kind-hearted socialists, but cruel,
Victor Davis Hanson No one has been more concerned than I about the current state of America—enormous debt, unfunded liabilities, DEI and tribal chauvinism, blue-state/red-state growing antitheses, the new right anti-Semitism coupled with the predictable old left anti-Semitism, the rise of an imperial China, etc. But there is much to be thankful for and excited
Victor Davis Hanson The big bike crack-up came years later. In fairness, I would again say it was my fault and preventable. My bike had an invisible hairline crack on the carbon fork from a prior fall years earlier. As I was riding, the top of my tire kept rubbing the side of the fork.