Victor Davis Hanson Why did Joe Biden take out various top-secret papers on various topics including Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom? The toadyish media has offered three explanations: one, Biden was “swamped” in 2017 and harried in his exit from the Vice Presidency and thus naturally got “sloppy”; two, he was writing his memoirs […]
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Victor Davis Hanson Police Killing of the Unarmed (Continued) So, unlike the Chauvin case, Byrd’s name and identity were long suppressed. There were no media sensational stories that always follow when a law enforcement officer shoots an unarmed suspect, especially when the former is white and the latter black. In this case, allegations arose that
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Victor Davis Hanson Police Killing of the Unarmed Following George Floyd’s death, the Left went ballistic that the Washington Post of all places had found that unarmed black suspects were not necessarily killed in percentages higher than the percentages of blacks among the some 11 million who were arrested each year. The distinguished Harvard University
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Victor Davis Hanson The January 6th “Insurrection” Continued Most people deplored the entrance into the Capitol of rioters who desecrated their government’s place of business. But many equally rejected the contortion of that day by the Left, as it strained to manufacture a complete Reichstag-like fantasy for political purposes. No one inside the Capitol was
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Victor Davis Hanson Here is what we do not understand about the January 6th Committee—if it truly was intended to appear as a disinterested investigatory body. 1. Why for the first time in memory did Speaker Pelosi forbid the House Minority Leader’s pro forma nominees to a special House committee? Fairly or not, the result
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Victor Davis Hanson “Election Denialism” I don’t listen much to the leftwing charge of “election denialism.” Why? Not because Republicans who had problems with the 2020 election did not deny its validity. Many did, perhaps because, in a first, in many key states nearly 70 percent of the balloting was not done on Election Day—even
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Victor Davis Hanson Country Living I have lived most of my life in the country, save for three academic years in Santa Cruz, four in Palo Alto, and two in Athens. Like many of you born outside of cities, I get restless in town—too crowded, too loud, too many strangers. I am used to being
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Victor Davis Hanson As one nears 70 years old, already arrived at Solon’s ebb tide and last age of man, all the old, ingrained habits begin to become burdensome. What once was pleasurable Hesiodic “work upon work upon work” becomes a swollen knee for a week, a sore shoulder for three days, a burning muscle
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Victor Davis Hanson I turn on my computer and often receive from two universities all sorts of the latest campus news. But the news is different than it was pre-Covid/George Floyd riots. “The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act” is now some 32 years old. And it is increasingly
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Victor Davis Hanson In reading and listening this holiday week I encountered nothing really other than outright lies. I was sitting on a farm buffeted before Christmas by near record cold temperatures and after Christmas by near record precipitation. Yet almost weekly we receive stories about California’s “permanent drought” of hot/dry weather and an environmental
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