Victor Davis Hanson Why do foreign visitors so often do things in their host country that they would never dare to do at home? Why would anyone wave the flag of the hated country they fled and burn the flag of the nation they so sorely covet? If you are proud of your tribe, your […]
Victor Davis Hanson The grotesque assassination of Charlie Kirk by a pro-Antifa zealot Tyler Robinson, following the macabre throat slitting of 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska by a freed 14-felon Decarlos Brown, proved the proverbial straws that broke the national camel’s back. The status quo is over. Kaput. And what follows will not be the
Description: Victor Davis Hanson analyzes the responses and excuses of the Left for celebration of assassination. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson After Domitian, some forty or more of the successive emperors were not Italian born. Most came from the Balkans or North Africa. The Western Empire was slowly eclipsed by the wealth of eastern provinces. But everywhere too much money predominated in the Neronian Age. Imported woods, gilt, and marble were the preferred
Victor Davis Hanson In the world of Petronius, cynicism rules. No one is who he professes to be—not bankrupt poets and pretentious intellectuals, not virtuous widows, not innocent youth. All are Epstein schemers of a sort of like our internet influencers and nobodies who become somebodies with vast audiences in the millions. Petronius’s cosmos (like
Victor Davis Hanson discusses how the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska is not an isolated case, but part of a complex, disturbing trend ignored by the media and shunned by politicians. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson The century between AD 96–180 is perhaps analogous to our American era of 1890 to 1990 (from the Gilded Age through World War I, World War II, and the Cold War), which saw a century in which America de facto ruled the world, defeated its enemies, and achieved an unimaginable level of
Victor Davis Hanson The formal end of the Roman Republic in 27 BC came when the Roman Senate acclaimed the 37-year-old final survivor and winner Octavian as “Augustus.” He alone had won out after 22 years of deadly civil war (from the 49 BC crossing of the Rubicon by Julius Caesar to the final defeat
Description: Victor Davis Hanson explains the problems caused by the DEI which provides a set of exemptions for special groups in America as exemplified by an illegal Indian truck driver who killed three when he made a U-turn in the middle of a freeway. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson Recently, Diana West wrote a number of people and posted a long demand for an apology, on the grounds that I had disseminated a photo, a video title, and in my own short video had smeared her. None of that was true. See below her demands interspliced with my own answers in