Toughen Up, Buttercup?
Join Victor Davis Hanson and host Jack Fowler as they discuss Barack Obama urging Democrats to toughen up, the roots of leftist rage, the 1619 Project’s lack of scholarly rigor, and much more. Share This
Minorities
Ten Reasons Why Affirmative Action Died
The end of affirmative action was inevitable. The only surprise was that such intentions gone terribly wrong lasted so long. First, supporters of racial preferences always pushed back the goal posts for the program’s success. Was institutionalized reverse bias to last 20 years, 60 years, or ad infinitum? Parity became defined as an absolute equality
America Wakes Up to Woke
Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the coalition of the oppressed. Those purportedly victimized by traditional America would find “intersectional” solidarity in their victimhood owing to the supposed sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other alleged American sins, past and present. The so-called white male heterosexual victimizing class was collectively to be held responsible
Awakening: A Conversation with Heather Mac Donald
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Heather Mac Donald about her new book When Race Trumps Merit, the crises in our culture caused by identity politics, and other current topics. Share This
The Race-Hacks Defend Their Industry
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The race-hack usual subjects recently attacked Congressman Paul Ryan for stating that the problems plaguing the poor––incarceration, fatherless children, drug abuse, rampant violence, and welfare-dependence–– are a consequence of a dysfunctional culture that scorns marriage, parenthood, education, work, and virtues like self-control. Given that blacks are overrepresented among the
Too Few Oppressors, Too Many Victims
by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Since the election, some fatalistic Washington conservative elites have accepted — and Obama operatives have rejoiced in — a supposedly new and non-white-male ethnic electorate: Americans will be categorized, and collectively so, on the basis of largely how they look and, to a lesser extent, how they sound. Republicans,
Diversity, Inc.
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online ‘Affirmative action” was the logical sequel to the civil-rights legislation of the 1960s. The initial reasoning was attractive enough. Share This