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 […]
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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
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One of the tenets of the early civil rights movement some 65 years ago was ending racial stereotyping. When Martin Luther King, Jr. called for emphasizing the “content of our character” over “the color of our skin,” the subtext was “stop judging people as a faceless collective on the basis
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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
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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they talk about Chuck Schumer, de-weaponizing federal agencies, wealth-hating California and turning it conservative, and the truth about segregated campuses and other left policies. Share This
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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they talk about DeSantis announcing his campaign for president, corporate woke policy on the edge, and the NAACP banning travel to Florida. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The most recent liberal ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Joe Biden’s approval rating at 36 percent—the lowest in history for a president at this point in his first term. Biden’s low popularity is no mystery. He inherited energy independence, affordable gas prices, historically low interest rates, low inflation, calm overseas, a
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VDH and cohost Jack Fowler talk about sex change operations for minors, construction of sex and race, the logical conclusions of the primal scream, the immoderate left, and Adam Schiff’s trajectory. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline—until it began to implode. Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the 2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the deranged fixation on removing
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness American society is facing three existential crises not unlike those that overcame the late Roman, and a millennium later, terminal Byzantine, empires. Premodern Barbarism We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism. The signs unfortunately appear everywhere. Over half a million homeless people crowd our big-city downtowns. Most know the
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