Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness America has a lot of built-in safety backups and redundancies. But every once in a while, when tradition, science, time-tested protocols, and common sense are ignored, a fragile system utterly collapses. Usually, an iconic event reveals how vulnerable the entire country has become, and predictably occurs when suicidal ideologies and… Continue reading Why Our Systems Collapse
What Made the Democratic Party Go Crazy?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The answer was not Trump alone. Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA movement “hijacked” the Republican Party. In characteristic projectionist fashion, the left is simply falsely attributing to their opposition the very hijacking that hit the Democratic Party. The… Continue reading What Made the Democratic Party Go Crazy?
Why DEI Was Already Dying
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Donald Trump’s executive orders banning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)-related racial and gender preferencing have ostensibly doomed the DEI industry. But DEI was already on its last legs. Half of all Americans no longer approve of racial, ethnic, or gender preferences. DEI had enjoyed a surge following the death of George… Continue reading Why DEI Was Already Dying
The World Woke Up
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo. The unthinkable has become the banal. Take illegal immigration—remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under Biden? Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”—a euphemism for mass amnesties.… Continue reading The World Woke Up
Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people. The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways. First, it serially lied to Americans about the cognitive decline and… Continue reading Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
Are Some Racist Slurs Okay?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One reason why the public turned on DEI was its insistence that roughly 70 percent of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color. In contrast, the other “diverse” 30 percent were de facto considered the victimized. In such absurd binaries, the left returned to the… Continue reading Are Some Racist Slurs Okay?
Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Harvard has refused to accept the orders of a Trump administration commission concerning its chronic problems with anti-Semitism, campus violence, and racial tribalism, bias, and segregation. Yet, unlike some conservative campuses that distrust an overbearing Washington, Harvard and most elite schools like it want it both ways. They do as they… Continue reading Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?
Will Harvard Go Full Hillsdale?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Harvard University has rejected various demands of a presidential commission on anti-Semitism. The task force wants to persuade Harvard to ensure Jewish students on its campus are no longer harassed, or else lose its federal funding. Harvard retorts that it won’t be bullied by Washington. Among its other requirements, the… Continue reading Will Harvard Go Full Hillsdale?
Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal—and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s… Continue reading Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?
Who Really Politicized the Pentagon?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Is the era of rounding up government or academic “experts” to declare their support or opposition to ongoing controversies over? Public declarations by Anthony Fauci and his associates to follow their “expertise” or “science” did not work out well and persuaded few. Recall the 1,200 partisan healthcare “professionals” of June… Continue reading Who Really Politicized the Pentagon?