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VDH UltraThe Unappreciated Rustics. Part One. Historians in a Motor Shop

Victor Davis Hanson Since antiquity farmers have been characterized as boorish (Greek agros, “farm/field,” English “agrarian”; Latin rus, “countryside,” English “rustic”), as if nature coarsened those who worked with it. My experience of more than six decades on the farm is that such impressions certainly can be true. I remember the old ditch tender, whom […]

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VDH UltraThe Existential Lies They Asked Us to Believe. Part Four

Victor Davis Hanson About $40 million and 22 months later, after the birth of the “Russian collusion” special counsel, Robert Mueller shrugged that he found no proof of “collusion.” No matter, James Clapper still claimed that Donald Trump was a veritable “Russian asset,” despite being tougher on Vladimir Putin than both the Bush and Obama

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VDH UltraThe Existential Lies They Asked Us to Believe. Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson We were told by Dr. Fauci that no way, no how did the coronavirus originate as a gain-in-function, engineered virus in the Wuhan Level 4 Lab. Few believed that—given there were no prior examples of Covid-infected animals prior to human cases. And the Chinese government had stonewalled all investigations of the original

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VDH UltraThe Existential Lies They Asked Us to Believe. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson When I was young in the late 1950s, all 5–8-year-olds customarily had a rendezvous with a surgeon or GP “to take your tonsils out,” regardless of the absence of any prior chronic sore throat or infection. (NB: I had forgotten that painful operation at six in 1959—until in 2006 I had inhaled

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VDH UltraThe Existential Lies They Asked Us to Believe. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson There is a narrative that half the country is paranoid, prone to conspiracy theories, and generally nuts, in the off-the-grid, January 6th sense. But in some sense why not, given the lies that have been promulgated? Here I do not mean the usual political serious and even life-changing untruths such as gas

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VDH UltraCivilizational Killers. Part Three. Borders and Security

Victor Davis Hanson The history of nations is a story of borders. Most wars break out over a nation’s private space, essential to create and maintain a unique culture. I once studied why Greek states fought three out of four years in the fifth century B.C. The answer was easy: disputed borderlands. Democratic Athens was

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VDH UltraCivilizational Killers. Part Two. Debt and Inflation

Victor Davis Hanson Debt and its twin inflation destroy civilizations. Ancient coins were sometimes called “redheads” as the raised impressed silhouettes of grandees stamped on “silver” coins were the first to have their silver veneers worn away revealing the “red” bronze beneath. Our paper money is similarly becoming less and less valuable, the more we

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VDH UltraCivilizational Killers. Part One. Perversion of the Law

Victor Davis Hanson No civilization can continue if its bedrock values and institutions are eroding—especially if the effort to save them is considered worse than their destruction. When we look to the civilizational decline of the Greek polis, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, or of Europe in the 1930s we learn that erosion is

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VDH UltraWokism and History. Part Three: “The Commissariat”

Victor Davis Hanson Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany divided up Poland. Germany invaded first from the north, west, and south, the Soviet Union subsequently from the east. By early October the war was over. A victorious Germany concluded that while its forces had learned much about

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VDH UltraWokism and History. Part Two: “Correct Physics”

Victor Davis Hanson One characteristic of wokism is the promotion of the mediocre on the basis of ideological correctness—a formula to attract incompetent careerists and toady opportunists. One characteristic of National Socialism that we rarely emphasize was its destruction of merit. “Jewish physics” translated into the expulsion of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in Nazi

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