VDH UltraTrump Versus Trump? Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Nonetheless, here we are in mid-March 2024, some eight years after Trump entered the political scene and Trump has arisen from the political deceased. How many epitaphs have been...
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Victor Davis Hanson Given the radical shift to 70 percent of the electorate not voting on Election Day as the traditional ballot rejection rate dived by a magnitude, given the billions of dollars that...
View ArticleVDH UltraFrom Rural to Surreal—Once Small Farming Became Latifundia: Part One
Victor Davis Hanson For the first 50 years of my rural existence, I don’t think I encountered more than 10 trespassing cars parked in the orchards or vineyards (one a decade)—aside from the intoxicated...
View ArticleVDH UltraFrom Rural to Surreal—Once Small Farming Became Latifundia: Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson The second incident was last week. I heard a bullet whiz through the almond orchard’s lower limbs. It sounded like it traveled 3 feet off the ground, about 20 yards from me. I could...
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Victor Davis Hanson Here are my top ten encounters of a strange kind over the last decade in what used to be the safest, most wonderful rural space in the world. 1. The Tragic Dead. Two years ago, I...
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Victor Davis Hanson 4. The Shooter. Two years ago, during record rainfall and snow melt, the ponds were full, the grass was lush, and the once-ossified cottonwood trees abruptly came back to life as...
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Victor Davis Hanson 6. The fornicators. I’ll be brief. Recently, I have stumbled upon a growing number of fornicators, if I may use such a term of disparagement—in cars, on blankets on the ground, on...
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Victor Davis Hanson 8. The Garbage Baggers. Sometimes the encounters are surreal to the point of being comedic, yet always instructional about the oddities of rural existence. And after all, one must...
View ArticleVDH UltraFrom Rural to Surreal—Once Small Farming Became Latifundia: Part Seven
Victor Davis Hanson What explains the general breakdown in civilization and the law, in a region where once no one had a key to their front farmhouse door and children free-ranged at age six or seven...
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Victor Davis Hanson As one resident told me, when I asked what was going on in his compounds, “It’s like our home in Oaxaca, only better.” Once, the former Fox Nation reporter Lara Logan brought a film...
View ArticleVDH UltraWhy Are Pro-Hamas Rallies So Anti-Semitic, So Anti-American—and So...
Victor Davis Hanson After seven months of pro-Hamas chaos, a good question arises over what exactly the anti-Semitic demonstrators won’t do? Crash Easter services at St. Patrick’s Cathedral? Interrupt...
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The epidemic of Diversity/Equity/Inclusion ideology fuels much of the current violence on campus and in the street, and for two reasons. One, we are now in our third year of reparatory admissions. That...
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Victor Davis Hanson A third component of the street and campus madness is the destruction of all deterrence abroad and at home by the Biden administration. The Middle East has concluded that the U.S....
View ArticleVDH UltraCivilizational Collapse Follows When Laws and Consequences Mean...
Victor Davis Hanson America is facing a number of existential crises—an open border, 30 million illegal immigrants, $36 trillion in debt, borrowing at the rate of $1 billion every 100 days, a suicidal...
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Victor Davis Hanson In short, if Alvin Bragg or Letitia James or Fani Willis were to forsake lawfare and the publicity it earns, and instead treat the criminals in their big city with steep bail,...
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Victor Davis Hanson The people yearn for laws to regain their potency. They are sickened by statutes on the books that vaporize upon needed enforcement. They are tired of excuses and inaction. We feel...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part One: Why Are...
Victor Davis Hanson I wrote The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation out of curiosity as to why on rare conditions wars don’t just end in the capitulation of the defeated, the...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part Two: Target Thebes,...
Victor Davis Hanson As the power of the fifth-century Athenian and fourth-century Spartan empires declined, and after the stunning defeat of Sparta at the battle of Leuctra (371 BC), the most ancient...
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Victor Davis Hanson Carthage had fought and lost two Punic wars against Rome (264 BC–201 BC). After the end of the Hannibalic War (201), the city lost almost all its empire, many of its North African...
View ArticleVDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part Four: The End of...
Victor Davis Hanson Despite bouts of destructive bubonic plague, the pillaging of the city by fellow Christians from Western Europe during the aborted Fourth Crusade (1204), and a tidal wave of Turkish...
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