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 […]
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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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Hello Ultra Subscribers: Listen to Victor Davis Hanson dissect the recent proclivity of the Democratic representatives championing criminals as their virtue and their politics. For those with the apps: please use an internet browser to watch this ultra video. We are still working on updating the app to accommodate video. Share This
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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
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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
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Ultra Subscribers: Join Victor Davis Hanson for his Friday Ultra. He explores the things Trump is succeeding at that are making and threaten to make the wayward Democrats a little nutty or, in his words, “woke nincompoops”! Share This
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3) As a historian, you should know how the Smoot-Hawley tariffs choked the Japanese economy in the 1930s and eventually led to Pearl Harbor. Trump’s draconian tariffs on China could have similar unintended consequences. With all due respect, this is embarrassingly absurd. Smoot-Hawley did not choke the Japanese economy. It had near zero effect on
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Dear Professor Hanson, I respect you as a historian, but an economist you are not. Your seeming support for Trump’s tariffs has been thoroughly refuted by the folks at the WSJ. I will not repeat their arguments. You ask the right questions but completely ignore the unintended consequences of Trump’s actions. I will make my
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Ultra Subscribers: Victor Davis Hanson talks about all the icons of the Democratic Party like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Karmelo Anthony, Mahmoud Khalil, and Luigi Mangione. Share This
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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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