Victor Davis Hanson And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias” I say America is in serious […]
Victor Davis Hanson Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Rudyard Kipling, “Recessional” There is proverbially a lot of rot in any great nation, which accordingly
Victor Davis Hanson We are the most powerful country in civilization’s history but not invulnerable. Even America will finally bleed out if we continue to open our own veins. Was it $40, $50, or $60 billion in equipment, weapons, supplies, and infrastructure that the U.S. simply abandoned in Afghanistan? That was that—no problem? We had
Victor Davis Hanson Yet at that ancient time of such misery, I remember then thinking of the pep talk of Aeneas who tried to lift the spirits of his defeated Trojans, scattered by storm and defeat. I had just read Book 2 the prior week—Aeneid Book 2, Line 203—when the hero riles up his exhausted
Victor Davis Hanson One baleful symptom of approaching 70 is spending more time thinking of the past than of the future—supposedly a tic that is incompatible with healthy aging and longevity. In fact, such retreats into the past are dangerous: siren-like they lure you away from the present conundrum and suck you into the past
Victor Davis Hanson What can we do to resist Woke? Here are steps 7-10. 7. Continue demanding changes at the university—the incubator of the entire woke revolution. The point is not to harm but to save America’s once premier institution. Conservatives should insist on a program to save higher education to ensure our national preeminence.
Victor Davis Hanson What else should conservatives do to prevent another leftwing tsunami in 2024? 3. Match leftwing Super PACs like Vote Blue that focus on millions of smaller donors and outraise their conservative counterparts. The Left has the wealthy and the poor, but not the middle class. There are far more potential conservative American
Victor Davis Hanson In 2024, the Left will spend $4-5 billion on the presidential and congressional races, with another $4-5 billion in free advertising in propaganda from network news, PBS, NPR, and the Silicon Valley mob. The latter again will do their leftist best, from rigging the order of Google searches, to banning supposed “misinformation”
Victor Davis Hanson Conservative America has been growing ever angrier. But it still had remained inert and in somnolence about the ongoing woke revolution. But just lately that comatose dragon is beginning to awake—and with a roar. Conservatives usually do not boycott or embargo. They are too busy with work, family, church, and community. In
Victor Davis Hanson I bought new a 2021 Ram V6-EcoDiesel, four-wheel drive pickup. I like it a great deal. It has a lot of torque and horsepower, yet often achieves 31 miles per gallon on the freeway. The salesman said it was reliable and my research and word of mouth contacts sort of confirmed his