Victor Davis Hanson California has become for some time a one-party state: no Republican statewide office holders; supermajority of Democrats in both state legislatures; only nine Republican Congressional representatives out of the 52-member state delegation; no Republican governor in the last 15 years; and the majority of local and state judges leftwing Democrats. Why the […]
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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