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The Genesis of our American Collective Meltdown

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness This Fourth of July holiday we might pause for a moment from our festivities to ask how we collectively lost our minds over the last 15 months—and are we yet regaining any semblance of our sanity?  A pandemic caused by the leak of a Chinese-engineered virus and its coverup […]

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Words Matter—Or Not: The Biden Vocabulary of the Times

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Armed insurrection—a motley mob riot with no leaders, no firearms, no plans, and resulting in five fatalities, four from natural causes and one shot while unarmed by an unnamed police officer. Assault—anything but 120 days of rioting, looting and arson, $2 billion in damage, 25 killed, and 14,000 arrested.

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Eeyore’s Cabinet: The Paradoxes of Woke Racism

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two. Here are the last two of five observations about our current woke racial mania. 4. What were race relations like before the death of George Floyd? Did stats show that of the millions arrested each year by police, unarmed blacks were disproportionally lethally shot? Does a systemically

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Has the Military Lost Middle America

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender.   Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically “overrepresented” in offering the ultimate

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Exclusive: Victor Davis Hanson on the Assault on Meritocracy, Politicization of the Virus, and the ‘Platonic Noble Lie’

There will be “no safe space, no sanctuary from wokeism until the system starts to erode the safety and the security of the elite that created it,” says classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson. In this episode, Hanson breaks down the problems he sees plaguing American society today, from the assault on meritocracy to the “Frankenstein

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