Today, progressive politicians, Wall Street, the media, academia, Hollywood and professional sports are all on the side of the mega-rich tech cartels.
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.
We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature.
Amid the death, destruction and dissension, history will show that America did not fall apart.
Keeping track of our brave new American world is easy.
But Biden should hope that the opposition will not do to him and his party what the Democrats did so bitterly to Trump.
Junking anything with a Trump fingerprint on it will please the hard-left Biden base.
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.
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.