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VDH UltraThe Failure of Modernism, Part One

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 […]

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VDH UltraThoughts On Trade Deficits—Irrelevant, Dangerous, or Advantageous? — Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson Ultra Subcriber Consider  the massive increase in federal spending in the 21st century, which some may call the greatest “stimulus” package in history.  Did printing and pouring all that money into huge federal programs and entitlements spur economic growth—albeit in a suicidal and unsustainable fashion that has now caught up to us?

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VDH UltraFinally, a Ten-point Democrat Agenda? Part Two

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

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VDH UltraFinally, a Ten-point Democrat Agenda? Part One

Victor Davis Hanson After two months of hysterics, street theater, and virtue-signaling moralizing we can finally detect the Democrats’ counter-agenda. It really exists and seems based on ten simple concepts. One, cherry-pick federal Obama- and Biden-appointed judges to stop all of Trump’s initiatives in the courts. The merits are unimportant. The point is to delay,

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VDH UltraThe Real Dangers of DEI. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson The evil of the diversity/equity/inclusion industry—costing the U.S. more than $1 trillion in its last, most radical four years of implementation—was not its fraud alone. We expected fakers like Ibram X. Kendi—born Ibram Henry Rogers to middle-to-upper-middle-class Jamaican immigrant professionals—to be lavished with millions of leftwing guilt money, spend through it without

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