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Victor Davis Hanson Drinking “Coors” was standard, Olympia was considered “piss water.” (I preferred Olympia because it tasted like water.) Again, almost everyone knew something about cars. (None knew much about our Volvo 544 and looked baffled when they opened the hood.) Most on Saturday nights parked out on someone’s safe-space farm, drank, talked, fought, […]

Victor Davis Hanson George Lucas’s American Graffiti is getting a lot of play recently. This year is the 50th anniversary of that brilliant film, depicting the fading high-school age of 1962 in small-town America—before the Sixties kicked in, Vietnam went to 500,000 American troops, and various cultural revolutions of the turn-on, tune-in, and drop-out sort

Victor Davis Hanson Why did Joe Biden take out various top-secret papers on various topics including Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom? The toadyish media has offered three explanations: one, Biden was “swamped” in 2017 and harried in his exit from the Vice Presidency and thus naturally got “sloppy”; two, he was writing his memoirs

Victor Davis Hanson Police Killing of the Unarmed (Continued) So, unlike the Chauvin case, Byrd’s name and identity were long suppressed. There were no media sensational stories that always follow when a law enforcement officer shoots an unarmed suspect, especially when the former is white and the latter black. In this case, allegations arose that

Victor Davis Hanson Police Killing of the Unarmed Following George Floyd’s death, the Left went ballistic that the Washington Post of all places had found that unarmed black suspects were not necessarily killed in percentages higher than the percentages of blacks among the some 11 million who were arrested each year. The distinguished Harvard University

Victor Davis Hanson “Election Denialism” I don’t listen much to the leftwing charge of “election denialism.” Why? Not because Republicans who had problems with the 2020 election did not deny its validity. Many did, perhaps because, in a first, in many key states nearly 70 percent of the balloting was not done on Election Day—even

Victor Davis Hanson I turn on my computer and often receive from two universities all sorts of the latest campus news. But the news is different than it was pre-Covid/George Floyd riots. “The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act” is now some 32 years old. And it is increasingly

Victor Davis Hanson In reading and listening this holiday week I encountered nothing really other than outright lies. I was sitting on a farm buffeted before Christmas by near record cold temperatures and after Christmas by near record precipitation. Yet almost weekly we receive stories about California’s “permanent drought” of hot/dry weather and an environmental

Victor Davis Hanson The third psychodramatic day that rendered great dividends was the buffoonish January 6th riot at the Capitol. Somehow the Left turned a few hundred out-of-control idiots, some replete with cow horns, painted faces, and sloganeering signs into a cabal of sophisticated revolutionaries seeking to storm the Capitol, hold it, and prompt a