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Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennan, and the European Ministers—Reveal It All

61 Comments / February 20, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the venom only further marginalizes the left. In its too-long 50th anniversary spectacle, Saturday Night Live offered a skit in which marquee actor Tom Hanks did […]

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The New Movement: Art, Immigration and Diplomacy

7 Comments / December 24, 2024

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk with Justin Shubow about American Monuments and the NEA, and then they examine the mandates for the new administration, assassin Mangione a reflection on university graduates, defending Netanyahu against countries complying with ICC, Christmas movies and the hope that DEI is over in the

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The Eternal Darkness of the Progressive Mind

January 21, 2014

by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The attacks on Lone Survivor, the movie about 4 Navy Seals caught in an operation gone lethally wrong in Afghanistan, illustrate once again the fossilized orthodoxy of the left. The L.A. Weekly’s Amy Nicholson called the movie a “jingoistic snuff film” that “bleeds blood red, bone-fracture white, and bruise blue”

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America’s Coastal Royalty

December 2, 2013

The real national divide isn’t between red and blue states. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online The densely populated coastal corridors from Boston to Washington and from San Diego to Berkeley are where most of America’s big decisions are made. They remind us of two quite different Americas: one country along these coasts and

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Miley Cyrus and Ugly Sex

September 3, 2013

Was the MTV performance meant to be repellent rather than enticing? by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online An older generation used to call the boredom of bad habits “reaching rock bottom”; the present variant perhaps is “jumping the shark” — that moment when the tiresome gimmicks no longer work, and the show is over.

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An American Satyricon

August 27, 2013

Our elites would be right at home in Petronius’s world of debauchery and bored melodrama. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Sometime in the mid-first century a.d., an otherwise little known consular official, Gaius Petronius, wrote a brilliant satirical novel about the gross and pretentious new Roman-imperial elite. The Satyricon is an often-cruel parody about how the

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Our Lost Howard Beale Moments

August 2, 2013

by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine Remember Howard Beale, the deranged anchorman from Network? During one broadcast he tells the viewers to turn off their televisions, go to the window, and yell, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” In one of the iconic scenes from American movies, thousands of New

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How Hollywood Has Ruined Sex

July 31, 2013

by Bruce S. Thornton // Acculturated.com In the early 80s my mom and her sister dropped by our condo while my wife and I were watching Payday on HBO. (If you’re unfamiliar with this movie and Rip Torn’s brilliant performance, just think Crazy Heart for grown-ups.) They happened to come in during a scene in which Rip Torn’s girlfriend

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Needed: A Tragic Hero

July 30, 2013

In good times, the larger-than-life figure is an affront; in crisis, he is necessary. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Tragic heroes — from Sophocles’ Ajax and Antigone to the Western films’ Shane and Woodrow Call — can be defined in a variety of ways. But the common archetype is a larger-than-life figure. He

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Brave New World

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