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 […]
Victor Davis Hanson 2. The War on Gasoline and Diesel. The Democratic primary field of 2020 mostly demagogued energy. Each candidate sought to outdo a Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, promising to cancel pipelines, stop new federal leases, shut down ANWR, embrace the New Green Deal, leverage financial agencies not to lend to frackers and
Victor Davis Hanson One day Americans will look back at the nightmare of the last two years—COVID, the lockdowns, the riots, the 102 million mail-in ballots, the Biden catastrophe, the utter lawlessness, and the woke revolution—and properly understand it as one of the strangest and most dangerous periods in their modern history. The toll will
Victor Davis Hanson How Did It All Go to Hell—So Quickly? Where such pessimism? I have been abroad for ten days and trying to see America as others do not in America and talk and listen to them. And the observers are bewildered, as if our country is committing a two-year suicide. I confess too
Victor Davis Hanson How Did It All Go to Hell—So Quickly? Of course, the last 17 disastrous months did not leap from the head of Zeus. Envision them as a pathology that was deeply embedded in the American immune system, one that finally turned into a near fatal illness after the wearied antibodies were finally
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
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals The Queensland principate followed. I found one at the pound and gave him to my father. He sat on the console of his truck and toured the farm every day. This was about the time of Road Warrior and “Breaker” looked exactly like Mad Max’s pet. At
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals I have had “several” dogs at once for most of my life on the farm, save the period I was at the universities and lived abroad. My parents handled them then. Looking back, I’ve noticed that we all went through “cycles” of particular breeds. My earliest ownership
Victor Davis HansonHistorian’s Corner In these three dark years, the military, especially the retired generals and admirals, soon were politicized as well. Suddenly it became normal to smear the commander in chief as Nazi-like, a Mussolini, or similar to the architects of Birkenau. It was as if the Uniform Code of Military Justice went the
Victor Davis HansonHistorian’s Corner One way of looking at America since January 2020 is to imagine that we were hit by some sort of self-created neutron bomb: the infrastructure remains, but the people as we knew them are gone. The COVID-19 plague killed hundreds of thousands, sickened millions, and left hundreds of thousands with bizarre