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Wokeism Is a Cruel and Dangerous Cult

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Wokeism has been described by its critics as the omnipresent use of race—and to a lesser extent, gender—to replace meritocracy and thus ensure equality of result. What follows from implementing that ideology are reparatory actions to reward those of the present by atoning for the injustices done to others in

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Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a “systems collapse.” The term describes the sudden inability of once prosperous populations to continue with what had ensured the good life as they knew it. Abruptly, the population cannot buy, or even find, once plentiful necessities. They feel

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Conspiracies as Realities, Realities as Conspriacies

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness American politics over the last half decade has become immersed in a series of conspiracy charges leveled by Democrats against their opponents that, in fact, are happening because of them and through them. The consequences of these conspiracies becoming reality and reality revealing itself as conspiracy have been costly to

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Politicizing COVID19 From the Start

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness From the moment COVID-19 appeared, the pandemic became inseparable from politics. Political frenzy was inevitable since the SARS-CoV-2 virus likely escaped from a level-4 security virology lab in Wuhan, China. The rapid-fire spread soon threatened to indict the communist Chinese government for nearly destroying the world economy and killing millions.

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The Politics of Scapegoating

Joshua Mitchell // First Things The contemporary political and social crisis in America cries out for explanation. Above all, we need a comprehensive account of the identity politics—the politics of innocence and transgression, in which race, gender, and sexuality play central parts—that seems to be sweeping liberal politics as we have known it into the

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Who Are the Real Insurrectionists

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Recently, Democrats have been despondent over Joe Biden’s sinking polls. His policies on the economy, energy, foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all have lost majority support. As a result, the Left now variously alleges that either in 2022, when they expect to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when

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The Truths We Dare Not Speak in 2021

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As the long year of 2021 finally came to a close, there were a number of truths Americans on the Left found themselves privately acknowledging but unable to say in public for fear of doing damage to their political cause, their own reputations, or their sense of security. But as

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