Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Have We Learned Anything from Ukraine? We know why Putin invaded Ukraine: he wants to restore the borders of the old Soviet Union and with them the power and glory of a lost empire that had 100 million more people and nearly 30 percent more of the territory than Russia […]
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet So the bicoastal classes—the West that looks out on Asia, the East that is tied to the EU—feel their brains, their cattle-brand stamped degrees, their money, and their tastes have advanced them to Eloi status. Some are certainly brilliant and explain much of the current American GDP. That said, many
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The elite bicoastal and professional Left are strange creatures—a peculiar hothouse species of American plant that has adapted to a particular time and place in American history. They either cheered on or were indifferent to the damage of 120-days of arson, riot, looting, death, assault, and occupation of downtown property
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner 1. We Have No Border An open border is destroying the United States. Just under two million illegal aliens crossed into the United States from the most impoverished areas in the world. They arrive in large part without English, capital, skills, high-school diplomas, background checks, vaccinations, or COVID-tests. They arrived
Victor Davis HansonHistorian’s Corner Gas and Oil Think back 13 months ago. Gas and diesel fuel were about half the price they are now. America was de facto energy independent, which was psychologically reassuring to the American public. Domestically produced fuels invigorated the economy. Commuters saved collectively billions of dollars in annual fuel costs. There
Victor Davis Hanson Deterrence Deterrence is the classical effort to scare somebody off from attacking you, or your interests—without a major conflict. It is hard to obtain and predicated on being predictable in reacting to aggression, while remaining unpredictable in the level of violence employed. Deterrence can be lost by ennui and becoming transparently passive,
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner The 1619 idea was designed to provoke, not instruct, and, of course, make Ms. Jones “controversial.” 1619 would have vanished with easy refutation—except the New York Times sponsored the ruse. And the rest is history. The powers of relativism were invoked (e.g., “who is to say that one date is
Victor Davis Hanson Education is a zero-sum game. Every decision to read one book entails not reading another. For every language mastered, yet another is shorted. What to study is as important as studying anything at all. Ars longa, vita brevis. Woke is many things—Marxist, nihilist, cruel, incoherent, and especially careerist and grifting. But we
Victor Davis Hanson As I said, I used to hunt at the woodpile and usually at sunset. One early evening, a huge “thing” broke out of the woodpile. I assumed it was some sort of coyote (distance was only 40 yards, but the wood pile and lengthy shadows camouflaged the target.) I shot once and
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden I think I was six or seven before I fully realized the farm was swarming with opossums. Given they were nocturnal creatures, I never saw one—until one day sometime around 1960, my grandfather asked us to go the henhouse near the barn and collect eggs. This time I noticed