“ If you want to give reparations, how about all the people who died fighting in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and Korea? What did they get,” asks Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Victor Davis Hanson reacts to pro-Palestinian protests marching through Jewish neighborhoods in New York City that required 500 police, arguing leaders and campus culture have created “open season” on Jews and warning of broader social breakdown. Hanson outlines his “four horsemen” of new antisemitism—demography driven by immigration and foreign influence, DEI’s oppressor framework, institutional changes in the Democrat Party, and left-wing popular culture—while also faulting parts of the populist right. The conversation turns to legal and illegal immigration, assimilation, and sanctuary policies, alongside Mayorkas’s belated regret over Biden’s border response and the administration’s loss of track of migrant children. They cover reports detailing Oct. 7 sexual atrocities, San Francisco’s regulatory priorities amid disorder, Harvard’s reparations effort and fears of identifying too many descendants, and a Cambridge shooting by a felon released early, with comments on vigilantism and upcoming politics.
Prof. Hanson, I thank you for the bewilderment, I don’t understand why, after all these millenia, Jews are still prominent and still hated, but I am comforted by the thought that a great many Jews who thought that America was their forever home are returning to reality; it’s much safer that way. And about that college question, even my most New York Democrat liberal/progressive relatives are not sending their children to colleges in which they would be in physical danger, and not getting a very good education. The college bound generation is still young, but the first choice was Univ. of Texas at Austin.
But couldn’t you stay home and write another book? All this travelling right now can’t be a good idea. Western secular Christian civilization seems to have had a short and spectacular run; please stay strong and explain it all to us, as well as what might come next.
Jack,
We might be an affluent nation with leisure time, but we’re not a wealthy one with $39 trillion in national debt, increasing by roughly $1 trillion every 100 days. These people in Congress spend other people’s money like drunken sailors, as the saying goes.