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
Victor Davis Hanson What then really happened in the Bergdorf Goodman department store some 30 years ago after a chance meeting, flirting, a mutually agreed exit to a secluded dressing room, and the ensuing some three minutes alone? No one knows (or now cares much) but most agree there was plenty of reasonable doubt to
Victor Davis Hanson 4) The judge in the case, a Bill Clinton appointee, Lewis A. Kaplan, ruled nonstop against the Trump legal team, chastising them at every turn. And a sometimes exasperated and raucous Trump was reprimanded continuously by Kaplan, whose rulings on the admissibility of evidence and rebukes to the respective teams consistently favored
Victor Davis Hanson 2) Carroll, however, had no sufficient evidence to win her suits. She still had no hard facts or reliable witnesses to prove her accusations at all. She had neither reported the rape at the time nor sought medical attention. There were no written records, police or hospital, to substantiate her claim. She
Victor Davis Hanson The Bragg, James, Smith, and Willis criminal/civil 91 indictments were, as widely agreed, outrageous weaponizations of the Justice system. They will remain Biden’s legacy and a stain upon the entire American concept of equality under the law. Yet, there was something about the E. Jean Carroll civil and criminal suits—especially the methods
Exhibit A: Final 2020 Wisconsin Poll: Biden by 17% October 28, 2020 news: “A Washington Post-ABC News poll found that former vice president Biden is leading Trump 57% to 40% among voters in Wisconsin.” Exhibit B: Final 2020 Wisconsin Actual Vote Count: Biden by 0.6% 49.4% | 1,630,866 48.8% | 1,610,184 As far as polls,
Victor Davis Hanson The entire BLM movement is now in shambles, due not just to its racist tropes, but the sheer corruption and grift of the entire enterprise of mostly middle-class black activists using the threat of riot and violence of the poor underclass as leverage to enrich themselves. The Center for Antiracist Research at
Victor Davis Hanson Wokeism also sought to defund the police, end cash bail, and empty the jails. George Soros and others poured millions into electing nihilist city and state prosecutors who simply did not enforce the law and let criminals out, often just hours after committing heinous crimes. Did the Left believe that criminals would
Victor Davis Hanson The hard-left revolution is running out of gas. We can tell that because the inherent anti-civilizational nature of wokism is beginning to devour the very architects of its creation. The Biden administration entered office in 2021 with a secure border—after four years of constant deep-state and left-wing efforts to stop the Trump