Victor Davis Hanson The Palisades fire rebuild is still anemic, stalled with all sorts of state and local mandates and zoning blocks. Only in California would an ancient and historic neighborhood go up in flames due to the DEI incompetence of letting reservoirs remain dry, allowing hydrants to sit out of commission, prohibiting cleaning of […]
Victor Davis Hanson California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been all over the media recently, with the usual head bobbling, hands wildly gesticulating in the air, and nervously rocking sideways on his feet. For some reason, he thinks he has found a winning issue that will propel him to the 2028 Democratic nomination. Currently, in most
Victor Davis Hanson Those final years as a family farmer are seared into my mind still. I remember the hand-to-mouth existence of canning food, rarely leaving the farm, and turning off lights constantly to save on the power bill. Yet I also remember our farm as a fortress, a bulwark against the modern world that
As far as the new sort of rural settlements divorced from farm-ownership, gang activity and break-ins are now as common as the territorial graffiti that identifies every concrete standpipe along these rural roads. The trees and vines do not know it, but they now apparently belong to the turf of rural gang bangers, who tag
Victor Davis Hanson The era of the small farmer in California and for that matter along much of the Western United States, where settlement and agrarianism came late in the latter 19th century, is about over. Globalism created huge foreign markets and, more importantly, American-controlled farms abroad designed for export to the U.S. that enjoyed
Victor Davis Hanson James Comey is really mad too. He is mad that anyone would think that he did not really stumble upon a beach array of seashells with the numbers 8647 (i.e., “Get rid of President Trump”). Do we really believe that he was so surprised or happy in stumbling upon that accidental kindred
Victor Davis Hanson Recently, John Brennan, the ex-Obama-era CIA Director has been appearing on television as a paid analyst for MSNBC. And he is mad. About what? That Attorney General Pam Bondi is evaluating a criminal referral sent to her by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Brennan says he is bewildered why anyone would
Victor Davis Hanson Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is angry at the U.S. She warns us not to round up illegal aliens in Los Angeles, where over one million are believed to reside. She offers legal counsel to her expatriate citizens facing deportations, an entitlement most Mexican nationals have never heard of when impoverished and oppressed
Victor Davis Hanson “Town” was an ambiguous term—necessary for commerce but otherwise an incubator of drink, drugs, and wastrels. When I got my license at 16, and I would say to my grandparents “I think I’ll drive into town,” Lila, my crippled aunt who lived her life in the living room, would say, “But stay
Victor Davis Hanson We in the West, and indeed globally, are engaged in a great experiment. Around 2,500 years ago, the ethos of our civilization originated with a middling class of agrarians. Now they comprise about one percent of the farm owners in the nation—and less than that of the general population. Most of our