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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 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