Victor Davis Hanson Americans love to travel. And once they were proud of their unmatched airlines—clean, on time, meritocratic, and safe. But not now. True, sophisticated avionics, along with bigger, faster, and far more reliable and safer planes make airline travel—despite a tenfold increase in passengers over the last 50 years–cheaper and even safer with […]
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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
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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
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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