Dear Professor Hanson, As all good and bad things from the US eventually wash over my small country, Denmark, I just wanted to thank you deeply for your efforts. Please understand that the disasters facing the US at present from identity politics, an almost overtly lying media, leadership that basically uses fiction to steer by, […]
In our moment of “woke” , do not let the Left cancel out the memories of your childhood. We must not agree that the 1950s and 1960s were times of evil. They were not. Westerns like the Searchers, High Noon, Shane, The Magnificent Seven, and Hombre all explored themes of racial prejudice, of the individual
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 events
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently. 1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much. Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits. But at least there were some concessions that the money
Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Water, Water and Not a Drop?Behind the national headlines are lots of other stories. Here in California, the Department of Water Resources and the Federal Bureau of Reclamation announced that they may not (be able to?) honor the meager 5% of the contracted water allotments of westside California farmers
An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Recall the desperate early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in early Spring 2020. Researchers worried that the Spanish flu of 1918 that cost millions of American lives could be a possible model. The Imperial College of London released a projection of over 2 million deaths in