The Culturalist: Liberty and Equality
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson discusses with Sami Winc the conflict between liberty and equality in history and in the present. Share This
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What Is Woke Really About?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Most Americans were as indifferent to the unexpected loss of our Olympic women’s soccer team as they were once excited about their World Cup win. In between was the team’s nonstop politicking, from whining about compensation to virtue signaling their disrespect for the United States. The celebrity face of
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Civilizational Death or Renewal?
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers History is replete with examples of societies in crises that either imploded or were destroyed, through internal and external forces—as well as those that met such dangers and endured. Life or Death? Controversies remain over why the Western Roman Empire broke apart by the end of the 5th-century AD,
China’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Stonewalling investigations into the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan? A hundred new hardened intercontinental nuclear missiles silos? Dressing down U.S. diplomats on purported American racism? Braggadocio about nuking non-nuclear and once-nuked Japan, if need be? Winks and nods that Taiwan will soon be Hong-Kongized? Hacking into Western institutions? No
VDH UltraEeyore’s Cabinet: “Cannibalism, Suicide, or What?”
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two Item: For the millions of Americans who lived through inflation and stagflation from 1974-1983, why would we ever wish to return to all that? We more or less avoided both the last forty years by being semi-profligate rather than whole-hog profligate. Now and then we saw a
VDH UltraEeyore’s Cabinet: Cannibalism, Suicide, or What?
Part One The two-parties used to have coherent, if antithetical, agendas. The Left believed foremost in equality of result (now renamed “equity”), the Right far more in an equality of opportunity. The former distrusted individuality and considered liberty problematic; the latter even more so feared government and its plan to reengineer income, and the daily