How ironic that the kindred spirits of today’s progressives are not Socrates, Galileo and Harper Lee, but the Athenian mob, Joseph McCarthy and the Taliban.
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com. His columns appears Sundays in the Review-Journal.
The president has a number of pathways.
No wonder Americans remain so skeptical of the experts in general and the Washington administrative state in particular.
Pollsters, the vast majority of them progressives, have become political operatives.
The 2020 election is not just about Biden sitting on a perceived lead and trying to run out the clock against barnstorming incumbent President Trump.
American habits and behaviors have been radically disrupted and the full consequences of these changes are still unknown.
Anywhere ideology trumps science, public service, history, art and entertainment, ruin surely follows.
Assembly Bill 3121 can be understood — as a loud virtue signal to make up for failed responses to concrete crises.
After COVID-19 arrived in the United States, Atlas consistently warned that government must follow science, not politics, in doing the least amount of harm to its people.
When scientific expertise offers ever-changing, inconsistent and occasionally absurd public health advice, then people turn to their own instincts and innate common sense.
In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93 percent of CNN’s coverage of the Trump administration was negative.
Reason has seldom stopped the outbreak of war — the stuff of ancient passions, bitter history and ethnic and religious frenzy.
Paradoxes happen when what seems real is not — and is known not to be real by those who act as if it is.
Mob seeks to wipe out what it cannot create.
In recent polling, Germans were more anti-American than any other nation in Europe.
