Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Zohran Mamdani, New York’s self-described socialist mayor, could not resist using the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration to trash the very country that he and his parents voluntarily sought out. As is his custom, Mamdani speaks in stereotypes and generalities, offering few if any examples, all laced with his accustomed unctuous… Continue reading Mamdani’s Embittered Fourth of July Rant to America
The Modern Left Wants Control More Than Accountability
America’s political and cultural institutions are becoming increasingly centralized, ideological, and disconnected from ordinary citizens. Media organizations, universities, government agencies, and political elites continue accusing opponents of authoritarianism while expanding their own influence over public life, speech, and information. This phenomenon helps explain California’s political decline, the growing distrust in elite institutions, the use of… Continue reading The Modern Left Wants Control More Than Accountability
UCLA Mob Tactics, Crime Culture, & the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Influence
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler react to a disrupted UCLA Federalist Society event featuring DHS General Counsel James Percival, arguing elite law schools now reward activist intimidation and vulgarity while teaching critical legal theory. They connect this culture to rising tolerance for theft and political violence, citing Hasan Piker’s comments and a New Yorker… Continue reading UCLA Mob Tactics, Crime Culture, & the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Influence
Cry the Beloved Europe?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their social-welfare state system critiqued by upstart, crass Americans. Their pique only increases as they push back against the condescending American idea that the… Continue reading Cry the Beloved Europe?
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?
The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called Degreed Experts
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes. Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a… Continue reading The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called Degreed Experts
California and Its Collapsing Blue-State Democrat Model
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness While the media and the new Democrat Party grow hysterical over the Trump counter-revolution, they are missing some of the most revolutionary and insidious changes in American society of the last century. Much has been written about the collapse of the old orthodox Democratic Party, along with the growing irrelevance… Continue reading California and Its Collapsing Blue-State Democrat Model
We Are in Need of Renaissance People
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The songwriter, actor, country/western singer, musician, U.S. Army veteran, helicopter pilot, accomplished rugby player and boxer, Rhodes scholar, Pomona College and University of Oxford degreed, and summa cum laude literature graduate, Kris Kristofferson, recently died at 88. Americans may have known him best for writing smash hits like “Me and… Continue reading We Are in Need of Renaissance People
Are Universities Doomed?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In a famous exchange in the The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually” and “suddenly” applies to higher education’s implosion. During the 1990s “culture wars” universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were… Continue reading Are Universities Doomed?
If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand. Make war on coal and… Continue reading If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .