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 […]
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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
The Legacy of Woke: Destroyed Brands and Privileged Victims Read More »
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
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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
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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
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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
The ACA depends on Millennials picking up the tab — as they already are for other entitlements — in the midst of a bad economy. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online There are all sorts of time bombs embedded within Obamacare. Will we force doctors to treat the millions of new Medicaid patients who
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Plenty of pleaders for rich and poor, but no politician speaks for the common man. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Occupy Wall Streeters claimed that they were populists. Their ideological opposites, the Tea Partiers, said they were, too. Both became polarizing. And so far populism, whether on the right or left, does not
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The well-intentioned social programs of the 1960s make no sense today. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Ideas of the 1960s have grown reactionary in our world, which is vastly different from the America of a half-century ago. Share This
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