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A Child’s World of Animals. 

Part I. Enchanted Dangers To a boy six or seven, great-horned owls proved terrifying. You would walk through the Santa Rosa plum orchard at dawn. Then suddenly this huge, hidden monster would spring out from a tree trunk and sweep through the row, about three feet off the ground, right on by you.  His six-foot

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Feet-of-Clay Icons

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Americans mostly have given up on familiar institutions for entertainment, guidance, or reassurance. What now do Hollywood, network news, the media in general, Silicon Valley, the NBA, NFL, MLB, or higher education all have in common?  A propensity to lecture Americans on their moral inferiorities, a general ethical decline

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Historian’s Corner: The Firebombing of Japan

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Three. The Nihilist Logic of Death Once the sick dogs of war are unleashed, legalized murder has a Satanic logic of its own. In the US case, the agenda from December 8 onward was how to end the war as quickly as possible that it did not start

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Biden gives Putin the Nord Stream prize and gets nothing in return

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Much has been made of President Biden’s comment that “Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal for Europe.” Yet with the announcement by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Nord Stream 2 sanctions are not in the U.S. national interest and will be waived, the Russian-financed European pipeline should glide

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