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Scapegoats, Boogeymen, and Hobgoblins

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The world may be increasingly baffled by 2021 America, and its sudden scapegoating of “white supremacist” hobgoblins for problems it cannot or will not solve.  Roughly 400 Americans were shot over the past July 4 holiday weekend. About 150 of them were killed. The majority, both of the shooters

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Eeyore ’s Corner: From Hippies to Yuppies to Our Puppies

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Three: Puppydom The grandchildren of the hippies and the children of the Yuppies? They are a different, a hybrid bunch altogether.  They combine all the worst traits of both leftist eras: selfishness, performance art, the I/me/my/mine self-infatuation (“my story,” “my truth,” “my narrative”), crudity, vulgarity and rudeness of

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Eeyore ’s Corner: From Hippies to Yuppies to Our Puppies?

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two: Yuppiedom The nihilism of the protests movements, the drop-outs’ human wreckage, the end of the draft and American involvement in Vietnam, and the ‘silent majority’ reaction to hippiness, all ended the Sixites, albeit in the 1970s. George McGovern’s landslide loss to Richard Nixon in 1972 marked the

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VDH on Defunding the Police with Megyn Kelly

Victor Davis Hanson // Megyn Kelly Show Link is below. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-on-defunding-police-woke-warriors/id1532976305?i=1000527335497 Share This

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The Traditionalist: Narratives and False Narratives

Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Critical Race Theories and the Left, new evidence from Hunter’s laptop, Trump and 2024, and the 4th of July. Share This

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Eeyore ’s Corner: From Hippies to Yuppies to Our Puppies

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One: Hippiedom The Sixties were, as the late, great Peter Collier and the astute David Horowitz wrote, the work of a “Destructive Generation.” Some of the best minds of the conservative movement who lived through those wasted years chronicled their excesses—the narcissism, the selfishness, and the legacy of

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