Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses. Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing, and increasingly non-meritocratic. But immediately after October 7—and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces—the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of […]
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies. At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness October 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation. During peace and holiday, invading Hamas gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated, and mutilated some 1,200 Israelis. The vast majority were unarmed women, children, infants, and the elderly. The cowardly murderers proudly filmed their atrocities and then fled back
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness It took the widely reported, repellent, and exempt wave of anti-Semitism and violent pro-Hamas protestors harassing Jews, finally to convince Americans that their own hallmark universities are illiberal centers of mediocrity and intolerance—and increasingly unsafe. Of course, Americans had long known that something had gone wrong at their colleges. They had increasingly
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One of the many satanic paradoxes of the Third Reich’s architecture of the Final Solution was the requirement—mandated after the 1939 outbreak of the war—that Jews anywhere under German rule or occupation had to wear a yellow badge or armband with the Star or David. Yet was not all this
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the anti-Semitism found in the Democratic Party and universities, colleges with a classic inductive curriculum, corporations find woke can mean broke, the evidence demonstrating Islamophobia not as bad a anti-Semitism, and pleas by city mayors who need Biden to stop the flow of illegals. Share
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Peruse campus literature. Watch clips from university protests. Scan interviews with pro-Hamas protestors. Read the chalk propaganda sketched on campus sidewalks. Talk to raging students in the free speech area. And the one common denominator— besides their arrogance—is their abject ignorance. Take their following tired talking points: “Refugees” We are
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this Friday news roundup: the Hamas spokesman says “again and again,” Mayorkas can’t answer questions about anti-Semites in his midst, a second front for Iran, Mike Johnson’s early days, and tracing the Biden’ laundered money. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There is something surreal, even sick about the current Gazan war. Throughout European and American cities and campuses, tens of thousands of Middle East immigrants and students, and radical leftists chant nonstop “Free Palestinian from the River to the Sea.” More recently, they are also yelling, “Israel, you can’t hide,
In this episode Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Biden’s recent speech, China’s battleships in the Persian Gulf, anti-Semitism from universities to the federal government, immigrant sympathies for a romanticized motherland, and donating to our post-modern universities. Share This