Victor Davis Hanson // Private PapersO Part 1: French Revolutionaries under the Guillotine This week I offer a few historical hopeful examples of why and how mass hysterias arise, consume, and die off. And I think the same pattern will follow with the ‘Great Awokening/BLM/racialization of everything.’ As it cannibalizes its own, Woke LTD is […]
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers The more pessimistic the CDC, Dr. Fauci, and the Biden Administration sound on the pandemic, the more cautiously optimistic I become, albeit as a non-medical observer of the pandemic . I also do not mean that as a contrarian, but, after all, we are approaching a perfect storm of
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Wars often arise from uncertainty. When strong powers appear weak, truly weaker ones take risks they otherwise would not. Sloppy braggadocio and serial promises of restraint alternatively trigger wars, too. Empty tough talk can needlessly egg on aggressors. But mouthing utopian bromides convinces bullies that their targets are too
VDH discusses the rationale behind the elites’ wokeness, the cannibalism of revolutions, how race trumps all, the mainstream media’s preference for the noble lie, and the value of the American iconoclast. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Americans are being saturated by a whirlwind of events never quite seen in recent memory. When a person with a gun or car now kills someone, the media—in anti-humanistic fashion, and quite callously— massages the story to fit deductive narratives. And they are based solely on the race of
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness We all know that we are living in revolutionary times. The origins, ascendence, values, laws, and future of the United States are all under assault by self-described, though accurately described, revolutionaries. It is a Jacobin, Bolshevik, or Maoist moment. All aspects of life, well beyond politics, are now to