Category: Victor Davis Hanson

The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America

Posted 05/18/2023 in Victor Davis Hanson,

The Impending Thermidor
Reaction in Jacobin America
A counterrevolution is building, not just because
people are angry at what has become of their country,
but because they now are learning that if they do nothing,
they will have no country—and soon.

By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
May 8, 2023

The decade-long French Revolution that ...

Silicon Valley’s moral bankruptcy

Posted 04/24/2023 in Victor Davis Hanson,

Silicon Valley’s moral bankruptcy
by Victor Davis Hanson

Features May 2023

On the pestilence in northern California.

The state of California is unrecognizable now from how it appeared in the era of Governors Ronald Reagan and Pete Wilson, when it was a model of conservative governance, had an expanding population, and was the site of visionary infrastructure ...

Our Parasitic Generation

Posted 12/14/2022 in Victor Davis Hanson,

Our Parasitic Generation

Yes, there is a lot of ruin in great nations.

But even America is by now running low on it.

 

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

December 11, 2022

 

"Be assured young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation." — Adam Smith

 

Are we sure that there is all that much ruin left in the ...

The Switcheroos of the Two Parties

Posted 10/28/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,

The Switcheroos

of the Two Parties

The party of old left-wing progressives has

Become one of rich regressives. And once

country club Republicans are becoming

a party of middle-class populists.

 

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

October 26, 2022

 

Our two parties have both changed, and that explains why one will win, ...

Nancy Pelosi’s Childlike Diplomacy Mirrors America’s Childlike Posture Toward China

Posted 08/10/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,

Nancy Pelosi’s Childlike Diplomacy Mirrors

America’s Childlike Posture Toward China

 

The Chinese have done and will do a

great deal of damage to America,

but not nearly as much as

we have done to ourselves.

 

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

August 7, 2022

 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s sin was not in ...

American Greatness

Posted 07/03/2022 in Opinions, Political, Victor Davis Hanson,

America Is More Fragile

Than the Left Understands

Like a stunned adolescent whose reckless incompetence totaled the family car,

The Left seems shocked that

America proved so fragile after all.

 

"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation." — Adam Smith

 

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

June 26, 2022

 

The ...

The Cry-Baby Leftist Mind

Posted 07/01/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,

The Cry-Baby Leftist Mind

How odd that leftists are destroying the very customs

and traditions whose loss will come back to haunt them

when Democrats lose Congress in November.

 

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

June 29, 2022

 

Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority.

 

Consequently, their ...

The Subordinate Citizen

Posted 06/10/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,

The Subordinate Citizen


Americans feel that ordinary citizens like themselves
who follow the rules are treated more harshly by
their government than are both noncitizens
and our progressive elites.

By Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
June 8, 2022

I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. ...

The Sovietization of American Life

Posted 06/09/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,

The Sovietization of American Life

 

Behind all our disasters there looms an ideology,

a creed that ignores cause and effect in the real world—

without a shred of concern for the damage done

to those outside the nomenklatura.

 

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

June 5, 2022

 

One day historians will look back at the...

Imagine the Unimaginable

Posted 05/16/2022 in Political, Victor Davis Hanson,

Imagine the Unimaginable

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

May 12, 2022

Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable.

Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power.

In ...

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