When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. Most survived. But hundreds of thousands did not. American deaths now number well more than 1 million.
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.
Over the past five years, it was the Left who talked openly of tearing apart the American system of governance.
The agency should be dispersing its investigatory responsibilities to other government investigative agencies that have not yet lost the public’s trust.
Elite experts and degreed professionals massaged and warped their knowledge to serve ideological masters rather than the truth.
Five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the war is now reduced to one of attrition.
Since when has changing an inept messenger ever changed a disastrous message?
It is Orwellian for Newsom to brag about a “free” California.
There are historical downsides — economic, cultural, social and military — to nations that shun child-raising.
These nonstop puerile meltdowns have turned off most Americans who tire of whiny narcissistic hypocrites.
A real committee would also investigate the other, far larger and more lethal riots on iconic federal property months earlier.
We don’t know why or how such an unimpressive cadre ended up running the government.
What Americans see as an abject catastrophe, the president and his team cheer on as a stunning and planned success.
Left-wing elites will do their best to ignore Supreme Court decisions, illegally cancel student debts and likely by the fall issue more COVID lockdowns.