Victor Davis Hanson Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Rudyard Kipling, “Recessional” There is proverbially a lot of rot in any great nation, which accordingly […]
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Victor Davis Hanson The architects of decivilization are the supposed elites who come out of our purported top schools, with allegedly impressive alphabetic degrees after their names. A Pete Buttigieg is a good example of their pomposity and incompetence, as he lectures us about racist freeway clover-leaf ramps, but cannot deal with an imploding air
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Victor Davis Hanson The Biden administration, with assent from California politicos, bureaucrats, Indian tribes, and green activists, is partnering with the state to destroy four major dams on Northern California’s Klamath River. Their ostensible idea is to facilitate better salmon runs, in part due to concessions to Native American lobbyists. The government brags that the
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Victor Davis Hanson We are the most powerful country in civilization’s history but not invulnerable. Even America will finally bleed out if we continue to open our own veins. Was it $40, $50, or $60 billion in equipment, weapons, supplies, and infrastructure that the U.S. simply abandoned in Afghanistan? That was that—no problem? We had
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Victor Davis Hanson Yet at that ancient time of such misery, I remember then thinking of the pep talk of Aeneas who tried to lift the spirits of his defeated Trojans, scattered by storm and defeat. I had just read Book 2 the prior week—Aeneid Book 2, Line 203—when the hero riles up his exhausted
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Victor Davis Hanson One baleful symptom of approaching 70 is spending more time thinking of the past than of the future—supposedly a tic that is incompatible with healthy aging and longevity. In fact, such retreats into the past are dangerous: siren-like they lure you away from the present conundrum and suck you into the past
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Victor Davis Hanson We recently witnessed days of riot, arson, and mayhem in France. Sweden is also mired in immigrant crime and violence—and immigrant contempt for Swedish culture. Sweden’s embassies are sources of threatened violence by Islamists upset that a Swedish immigrant from the Middle East burned a Koran. (Would Christians worldwide protest at Turkish
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Victor Davis Hanson I just returned from 17 days abroad and watched a lot of BBC and CNN international news, given there were no other alternatives. Their coverage of the recent Israeli effort to destroy a terrorist network in Jenin was surreal. It can be summed up as the following: Killing Jews randomly inside Israel
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Victor Davis Hanson What can we do to resist Woke? Here are steps 7-10. 7. Continue demanding changes at the university—the incubator of the entire woke revolution. The point is not to harm but to save America’s once premier institution. Conservatives should insist on a program to save higher education to ensure our national preeminence.
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