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VDH UltraA Child’s Garden of Animals. Free Ranging, Part One.

Victor Davis Hanson Set Loose About a decade ago I came across the old cattle term “free ranging”—but now curiously applied to child-raising. It had grown in popularity in antithesis to the “helicopter parenting” of Tiger Moms. The retro idea was that rural folk (I’m not sure free ranging would be viable among 21st-century suburbanites), […]

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VDH UltraShrugging at the Intolerable, Continued. Part Three.

Victor Davis Hanson The Border, RIP The rise of the modern state is synonymous with ideas of identifiable and secure borders within which a consensual society can set their own laws, inculcate and nourish unique customs and traditions, and ensure that a special space is secure for its people. Without borders, we are mere tribal

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VDH UltraIsraeli Reflections (From Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem)

Victor Davis Hanson An Outsider’s Superficial Impressions For a supposed global recession, COVID pandemic, and war in Ukraine, Israel seems booming. Traffic is snarled. Tourist spots are full. Prices are high. People are upbeat. We talk about the ex-nihilo boom of modern China from a Maoist hellhole to a gleaming autocracy. But that was material

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