Mob seeks to wipe out what it cannot create.
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.
In recent polling, Germans were more anti-American than any other nation in Europe.
Efforts to change time-honored rules for short-term gain are becoming more common on the left.
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, at Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9.
At this late date, all that matters is that the country itself learns from these suicidal examples and heals itself.
A half-century after the earlier revolution, today’s cultural revolution is vastly different — and far more dangerous.
Historically, the tips of the spears of cultural revolutions are accustomed to comfort.
How can so many so sheltered and prolonged adolescents claim to be all-knowing? Ask questions like these, and the answers ultimately lead back to the university.
The angry and the demonstrating are loud and visible; their opponents are angry and quiet.
Sometimes cultural revolutions don’t die out — if they are hijacked by a thug or killer.
Throughout history, revolutions often do not end up as their initial architects planned.
China is now on the move — without apologies.
We are postponing another rendezvous with reality. But as we near $30 trillion in debt, what cannot go on much longer soon probably won’t.
Blue-state governors wanted long lockdowns; red-state governors not so much.
Seventy-five years ago this month, Germany surrendered, ending the European theater of World War II. At the war’s beginning, no one believed Germany would utterly collapse in May 1945.
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