Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner The California governor, on the scent of a progressive effort to ensure Joe Biden does not run in 2024, is touring the country. Oddly, he talks of a “free” California, as he tries to contrast his record with the terms of Texas governor Greg Abbott and Gov. Ron DeSantis of […]
Victor Davis Hanson We certainly have more freedom now, but from what? To have our 90-year-old mother in a scary home rather than in the back bedroom. To spot our supposedly “crazy” brother as a homeless person defecating in the street rather than living in the garage back home? Was the flight across the country
Victor Davis HansonEeyore’s Cabinet We got our first key to our farmhouse around 1968. Prior to that we never locked it when away. There was no such thing as bolt locks. Farms a half-century ago still grew people as well as food, not just food more cheaply and economically. Today only a madman would leave
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Fifty years ago, I was 18 and a first-year student in college at the recently opened UC campus at Santa Cruz. Our drug- and sex-addled generation that emerged out of such colleges now brags about the material progress of the baby boomer techies, the moral superiority birthed in the 1970s,
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Consider five self-evident banalities. Joe Biden has serially attacked the Saudi Arabian government after the Khashoggi murder. Fine, there is much to criticize among the Saudi monarchs. But did anyone believe that the Saudis in any sizable way would pump thousands of more barrels of oil per day to lower
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Recently, there has been increasing pressure on China either to produce more data exonerating itself of birthing the SARS-CoV-2 virus, or to confess that the pathogen escaped from its secretive biosafety Level 4 virology lab and was human-engineered, showing insidious characteristics not found in nature. If the latter is true,
Victor Davis Hanson 6) Twenty-million Californians living on a thin, dry, coastal, 400-mile strip, from La Jolla to north of Berkeley. That they sit atop no real aquifer and enjoy little precipitation is still not unnatural given the importance of these elites. Such critical populations must be continually supplied by otherwise not-natural, long-distance transfers of
Victor Davis Hanson The West in general is in a continuing drought and California in particular. The left-wing policies to alleviate little rain or snow in blue Western states have been the following—though never fully or so candidly expressed. Remember, progressive water policy for the Left is like fuel policy: do not develop such resources
Víctor Davis Hanson Epitaph. The U.S. will survive the virus because for the most part it sickens but does not kill or disable most of the productive population. And it likely gives enough short-term immunity that one does not go from one bout to the next. The elderly, the long haulers, and the already ill
Victor Davis Hanson The Way Ahead. What is the future of the pandemic? Who knows? But it is likely to be more like an annual flu epidemic, albeit more toxic than a whooping cough or measles outbreak that has largely been eradicated by vaccination. Perhaps we should envision the man-made devilry as a super-flu that