In this Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about Hamas-Israeli talks, Jack Smith’s report after resigning, the LA fires, Amy Chua being JD Vance’s guest, calling political parties cults, and another cancellation of student loans. Share This
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for discussion of the Musk-y shake-up, Biden’s pardons and forgiving student loans in the last days, Trump’s job applicant pool runneth over, Fauci’s job at Georgetown, the Left is San Francisco, bomb attack in Germany, and being a guest in a foreign country. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility. Gifting to most universities has been
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system. The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no longer equates with
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Haley/DeSantis strategy, SCOTUS strike down of Jack Smith requests and Biden loan forgiveness, how the Left destroyed any university, company, movie and brand that took it up, and the history of Republican and Democrat. Share This
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine the new crudity in politics, Kim Jong-Un on the WHO board, Chris Christie entering the race, the DC swamp, teacher’ unions, Bud Light’s new angling, and student loan forgiveness. Share This
by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Dartmouth College students recently staged an overnight sit-in the office of their president Philip Hanlon. They had over seventy demands. Apparently, they grew out of their alleged suffering at the hands of “racist, classist, sexist, heterosexist, trans-homophobic, xenophobic, and ablest structures.” Translating into English, the students elaborated, “Our bodies are
by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media It is popular now to talk of race, class, and gender oppression. But left out of this focus on supposed victim groups is the one truly targeted cohort — the young. Despite the Obama-era hype, we are not suffering new outbreaks of racism. Wendy Davis is not the poster
by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media Had the Greeks lost at Salamis, Western civilization might easily have been strangled in its adolescence. Had Hitler not invaded the Soviet Union, the European democracies would have probably remained overwhelmed. And had the Japanese just sidestepped the Philippines and Pearl Harbor, as they gobbled up the orphaned Pacific
The university has become a rogue institution in need of root-and-branch reform. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Two factors have so far shielded the American university from the sort of criticism that it so freely levels against almost every other institution in American life. (1) For decades a college education has been considered