The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.
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.
“Noble lies” are rarely spun for anyone’s interests other than those of the liars themselves.
Start instead with the idea that what most Americans see as sheer ruin is not what the left-wing puppeteers see.
It is far more likely that one state model will prove unsustainable and collapse than it is that either region would ever start a civil war.
Some elites believe the Founders’ Constitution is in dire need of radical deletions and alterations to fit their own utopian visions.
Our own woke, year-zero revolution is now in its second year.
Desire peace? Then be prepared for war. Or so the Romans believed.
California once was run by conservatives and mostly centrist Democrats.
Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven.
We are now beginning to see the consequences of what happens when premodern tribalism absorbs Americans.
Fiasco is the president’s fault.
If we don’t wake up from wokeness, we will continue on our sure trajectory to self-inflicted, systemic paralysis.
Vaccine hesitancy more complicated than the media lets on.
Wokeness is many things. But increasingly it seems a cover for careerism, profiteering and utter incompetence.
What turned the party of Harry Truman, JFK and even Bill Clinton into a woke neo-Maoist movement?
