Victor Davis Hanson The Narcissist Passenger. When 200 and more strangers are crammed into a tight space, rocketed up to 35,000 feet, and jetting along at 500 mph, lots of things can go wrong—without the passengers contributing to the chaos. Take boarding: often a single attendant at the desk will attempt to board over 100 […]
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Victor Davis Hanson Americans love to travel. And once they were proud of their unmatched airlines—clean, on time, meritocratic, and safe. But not now. True, sophisticated avionics, along with bigger, faster, and far more reliable and safer planes make airline travel—despite a tenfold increase in passengers over the last 50 years–cheaper and even safer with
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Ultra Subscribers: Victor Davis Hanson explains the logic or illogic of the Democrats as they scramble to avoid the stigma and shame of having covered up Joe Biden’s condition for four years. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson Why is modernism never held to account, its results judged, its costs compared to its benefits? Does anyone doubt that a Yale BA graduate of 1960 was far better trained than his counterpart of 2024, and could be so assessed on tests and evaluations? How could that be given the revolutions in
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Victor Davis Hanson Modernism gave us a general coarseness of culture. Why do mostly leftwing politicians now routinely cut videos where senators and house members use the sh*t and f*ck words? I like Sen. John Fetterman, but cannot he wear long pants to the hallowed chambers of the Senate? I also watch the Gutfeld! show
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Ultra Subscribers: Victor Davis Hanson explores what needs to be done to address California crises of homeless, fires, water, highways, and more. What promises should the next governor make? Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson Yet it was in popular culture and the university where the real damage of modernism was found. The repulsion in the 1920s against all the hierarchies and protocols that had led to the recent destruction of European manhood in the Great War swept away the good of the West along with the
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Victor Davis Hanson First, what is modernism? In a word, it was the rejection of traditionalism in every imaginable aspect. Starting in the mid-eighteenth century, the trend accelerated in art, literature, architecture, politics, religion, and all cultural and social life. The French Revolution, the revolutions in Europe of 1848, the Industrial Revolution, the faith in
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Hello Ultra Subscribers: Listen to Victor Davis Hanson dissect the recent proclivity of the Democratic representatives championing criminals as their virtue and their politics. For those with the apps: please use an internet browser to watch this ultra video. We are still working on updating the app to accommodate video. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson Firing Generals and Defense Board Members The media went crazy when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., and now has fired members of the Defense Policy Board. I have no idea whether these removals were entirely justified, arbitrary, controversial, unnecessary, or long
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