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
Victor Davis Hanson Here is the crux of the matter of the Bolton Raid. Did or did not Trump or his team dig up reasons to go after enemy Bolton that otherwise would not have justified an investigation of any other official under similar legal doubt? To answer that we will have to await definitive
Description: Victor Davis Hanson looks at the wrong conclusions of some scholars like David Callum about WWII: 1) the US fought on the wrong side, 2) the Holocaust might have been prevented with a Hitler alliance, and 3) post-WWII US soldiers were killed rather than returned by the Soviet Union. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson The Internet is afire with all the snarky comments that former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton three years ago offered on leftwing TV, following the August 8, 2022, FBI raid on Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago: 1) He insisted that all of Trump’s claims about declassifying documents were a “complete fiction” and
Victor Davis Hanson The Palisades fire rebuild is still anemic, stalled with all sorts of state and local mandates and zoning blocks. Only in California would an ancient and historic neighborhood go up in flames due to the DEI incompetence of letting reservoirs remain dry, allowing hydrants to sit out of commission, prohibiting cleaning of