Historian’s Corner

Victor Davis Hanson There are many attractions—open spaces, beautiful farmland, central location, “diverse” peoples, middle-class traditionalism—in the Central Valley outback. But I am not quite yet a complete fool: there are real costs to being able to run with the redtails and foxes. Dangerous people live out here. There always were such characters, but nothing …

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Victor Davis Hanson When one is seven or eight, and free-ranged on a 135-acre orchard and vineyard farm, surrounded by a cocoon of protective family and hired men, a child gains the confidence of an adult to explore and investigate, but without their guidance and experience of age to discern fantasy from reality. And so, …

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Victor Davis Hanson The architects of decivilization are the supposed elites who come out of our purported top schools, with allegedly impressive alphabetic degrees after their names. A Pete Buttigieg is a good example of their pomposity and incompetence, as he lectures us about racist freeway clover-leaf ramps, but cannot deal with an imploding air …

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Victor Davis Hanson The Biden administration, with assent from California politicos, bureaucrats, Indian tribes, and green activists, is partnering with the state to destroy four major dams on Northern California’s Klamath River. Their ostensible idea is to facilitate better salmon runs, in part due to concessions to Native American lobbyists. The government brags that the …

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Victor Davis Hanson We recently witnessed days of riot, arson, and mayhem in France. Sweden is also mired in immigrant crime and violence—and immigrant contempt for Swedish culture. Sweden’s embassies are sources of threatened violence by Islamists upset that a Swedish immigrant from the Middle East burned a Koran. (Would Christians worldwide protest at Turkish …

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Victor Davis Hanson I just returned from 17 days abroad and watched a lot of BBC and CNN international news, given there were no other alternatives. Their coverage of the recent Israeli effort to destroy a terrorist network in Jenin was surreal. It can be summed up as the following: Killing Jews randomly inside Israel …

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Victor Davis Hanson Mike Pence had initially condemned Trump without context for his flawed archives protocols (he seems to be backtracking now). So has Chris Christie and Nikki Haley (she too had second thoughts). They are right that everyone must obey the law. But there are two other issues in play here: one, equality under …

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Victor Davis Hanson Yes, we are told Trump is facing serious charges. Experts tell us he will be going to prison. Some of his legal team have quit. Yes, he was sloppy about communicating with the lawyers of the National Archives. Yet, read the 1978 Presidential Records Act (put into place after the typical sloppy …

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