California

California’s Rendezvous With Reality

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Californians brag that their state is the world’s fifth-largest economy. They talk as reverentially of Silicon Valley companies Apple, Facebook and Google as the ancient Greeks did of their Olympian gods. Hollywood and universities such as Caltech, Stanford and Berkeley are cited as permanent proof of the intellectual, aesthetic …

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How to Make It Home in California: Rules for the Modern Odysseus

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness I drove back from San Francisco not long ago to the rural San Joaquin Valley. It is only 200 miles. But in fact, it can feel like Odysseus trying to get back home to Ithaca from Troy. Walking to the car in San Francisco was an early morning obstacle …

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Even California Cannot Defy Nature Forever

Victor Davis Hanson // City Journal California has been clouded under a blanket of smoke for weeks. Stanford University, where I work, sent students and faculty home early for Thanksgiving. The campus is more than 200 miles southwest of the 150,000-acre Camp Fire that just incinerated the Sierra Nevada foothill town of Paradise, and yet the …

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California and Conservatism

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review I share some of the sentiments of Jay Nordlinger’s Corner post expressing confidence that some day in the future there may be hope for California conservatism. That’s why I continue to live in the house that I grew up in, despite vast changes in the nature of the rural community I …

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Understanding the California Mind

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Nancy Pelosi gave a marathon speech on illegal immigration the other day. But how would she know much about the realities of open borders, given her palatial retreat in Northern California and multi-millionaire lifestyle that allows wealthy progressives like herself to be exempt from the consequences of her own hectoring? In …

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Will Unfinished Train Overpasses Become California’s Stonehenge?

by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review   The misbegotten project, now stalling, should never have been started.   Nobody quite knows who built Stonehenge some 5,000 years ago in southern England. The mysterious ring of huge stone monoliths stands mute.   Californians may leave behind similarly enigmatic monuments for puzzled future generations. Along a 119-mile …

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From Resistance to Nullification to What Next?

By Victor Davis Hanson — National Review Trump’s critics ratchet up to insurrection, but Trump’s tax reforms and our growing economy could derail their dreams. George H. W. Bush gave up power quietly and turned to charity work and occasional ceremonial speaking after his reelection defeat in 1992. George W. Bush — like Jerry Ford …

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Christmas Lessons from California

by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review   Nature this year is predictably not cooperating with California.   Rarely has such a naturally rich and scenic region become so mismanaged by so many creative and well-intentioned people.   In California, Yuletide rush hours are apparently the perfect time for state workers to shut down major freeways …

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