Historian’s Corner

Victor Davis Hanson Why is modernism never held to account, its results judged, its costs compared to its benefits? Does anyone doubt that a Yale BA graduate of 1960 was far better trained than his counterpart of 2024, and could be so assessed on tests and evaluations? How could that be given the revolutions in […]

Victor Davis Hanson Modernism gave us a general coarseness of culture. Why do mostly leftwing politicians now routinely cut videos where senators and house members use the sh*t and f*ck words? I like Sen. John Fetterman, but cannot he wear long pants to the hallowed chambers of the Senate? I also watch the Gutfeld! show

Victor Davis Hanson Yet it was in popular culture and the university where the real damage of modernism was found. The repulsion in the 1920s against all the hierarchies and protocols that had led to the recent destruction of European manhood in the Great War swept away the good of the West along with the

Victor Davis Hanson First, what is modernism? In a word, it was the rejection of traditionalism in every imaginable aspect. Starting in the mid-eighteenth century, the trend accelerated in art, literature, architecture, politics, religion, and all cultural and social life. The French Revolution, the revolutions in Europe of 1848, the Industrial Revolution, the faith in

Victor Davis Hanson Firing Generals and Defense Board Members The media went crazy when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., and now has fired members of the Defense Policy Board. I have no idea whether these removals were entirely justified, arbitrary, controversial, unnecessary, or long

Victor Davis Hanson The Stock Market Entitlement Complex On Friday, April 24, the stock market closed about 40,000 on the Dow Jones, or where it was variously just recently between May and August 2024. Yet we still hear from the investor class (10 percent of the nation’s own 93 percent of stock market capitalization) cries

Victor Davis Hanson Is China already unbeatable? In just 40 years, China has created the second-largest economy in the world. Its military is the second(?) strongest military in the world. It is producing ships, military and mercantile, at a rate 230 times greater per year than America, which has all but destroyed what was once

Victor Davis Hanson Much of Trump’s widely diverse foreign and domestic initiatives have something to do with China, which he sees not just as America’s chief rival but as bent on world domination at our (deadly) expense. Consider the following: China is behind the fentanyl crisis, sending the raw product to the Mexican cartels for

Six, side with 40 percent of Americans who demand support for Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” with a blank check to the Zelenskyy government. Damn any who propose a ceasefire as Putin puppets. Instead, try to bleed out Russia to the last useful Ukrainian. Oppose any ceasefire as “unworkable,” “impossible,” or “naïve.” Never