Victor Davis Hanson Why do foreign visitors so often do things in their host country that they would never dare to do at home? Why would anyone wave the flag of the hated country they fled and burn the flag of the nation they so sorely covet? If you are proud of your tribe, your […]
Victor Davis Hanson The grotesque assassination of Charlie Kirk by a pro-Antifa zealot Tyler Robinson, following the macabre throat slitting of 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska by a freed 14-felon Decarlos Brown, proved the proverbial straws that broke the national camel’s back. The status quo is over. Kaput. And what follows will not be the
Victor Davis Hanson After Domitian, some forty or more of the successive emperors were not Italian born. Most came from the Balkans or North Africa. The Western Empire was slowly eclipsed by the wealth of eastern provinces. But everywhere too much money predominated in the Neronian Age. Imported woods, gilt, and marble were the preferred
Victor Davis Hanson In the world of Petronius, cynicism rules. No one is who he professes to be—not bankrupt poets and pretentious intellectuals, not virtuous widows, not innocent youth. All are Epstein schemers of a sort of like our internet influencers and nobodies who become somebodies with vast audiences in the millions. Petronius’s cosmos (like
Victor Davis Hanson The century between AD 96–180 is perhaps analogous to our American era of 1890 to 1990 (from the Gilded Age through World War I, World War II, and the Cold War), which saw a century in which America de facto ruled the world, defeated its enemies, and achieved an unimaginable level of
Victor Davis Hanson The formal end of the Roman Republic in 27 BC came when the Roman Senate acclaimed the 37-year-old final survivor and winner Octavian as “Augustus.” He alone had won out after 22 years of deadly civil war (from the 49 BC crossing of the Rubicon by Julius Caesar to the final defeat
Victor Davis Hanson Recently, Diana West wrote a number of people and posted a long demand for an apology, on the grounds that I had disseminated a photo, a video title, and in my own short video had smeared her. None of that was true. See below her demands interspliced with my own answers in
Victor Davis Hanson Here is the crux of the matter of the Bolton Raid. Did or did not Trump or his team dig up reasons to go after enemy Bolton that otherwise would not have justified an investigation of any other official under similar legal doubt? To answer that we will have to await definitive
Victor Davis Hanson The Internet is afire with all the snarky comments that former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton three years ago offered on leftwing TV, following the August 8, 2022, FBI raid on Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago: 1) He insisted that all of Trump’s claims about declassifying documents were a “complete fiction” and
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