Victor Davis Hanson Are violent immigrants who sparked a crime wave in Sweden, or the riotous in France, or those furious in Florida that Ron DeSantis dared to enforce immigration laws on the books, so aggressive because their hosts were expected to be so passive? They now fear that a DeSantis is a dangerous man […]
The end of affirmative action was inevitable. The only surprise was that such intentions gone terribly wrong lasted so long. First, supporters of racial preferences always pushed back the goal posts for the program’s success. Was institutionalized reverse bias to last 20 years, 60 years, or ad infinitum? Parity became defined as an absolute equality
The usual suspects have weighed in on recent belated efforts to enforce U.S. immigration laws. Our now bankrupt media, the corrupt government of Mexico, and the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion apparat have damned a series of laws recently passed by the Florida legislature and signed by Governor Ron DeSantis that enforce existing federal immigration laws. Such critics seem oblivious to
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Our national Fourth of July holiday—currently the nation’s 247th since the first in 1776—marks the birth of the United States. The iconic Declaration of Independence was published on the 4th and largely written by Thomas Jefferson. Its core sentence would become among the most famous words in American history: “We hold these
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The American post-Cold War order from the Ronald Reagan through George W. Bush administration is over. Barack Obama began its erosion with his tired lectures about the past sins of the United States. Obama empowered radical Islamists. He invited Russia back into the Middle East after a forty-year hiatus. He
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000. The antecedents to its current madness were once previewed in the old party’s extremist wing of campus radicals of the 1960s and 1970s. They were accentuated by Black Lives Matter
Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the coalition of the oppressed. Those purportedly victimized by traditional America would find “intersectional” solidarity in their victimhood owing to the supposed sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other alleged American sins, past and present. The so-called white male heterosexual victimizing class was collectively to be held responsible
Most Americans sympathize with Ukraine and were and are willing to supply it with defensive weapons to repel Russian aggression. Proof of that goodwill is the virtual draining of U.S. weapon stocks—from stockpiles of anti-tank weapons and large-caliber artillery shells to anti-aircraft and surface-to-surface missiles. Yet the more the United States gives, the more Volodymyr
One of the most interesting shifts in the humanities is towards ‘social relevance’ and away from traditional modes of teaching. Is it right to say that the trend began several decades ago, at the same time Classical languages declined in primary schools? Today computer programs can translate languages almost instantly. The Classics, rooted for many
Victor Davis Hanson So what is the ultimate fate of Donald Trump? I wrote in The Case for Trump that he was a Sophoclean/John Ford tragic hero. If you have not read the Ajax, Antigone, or Philoctetes, you still know the stereotype from Shane, The Searchers, High Noon, The Magnificent Seven, and even in some