Efforts to change time-honored rules for short-term gain are becoming more common on the left.
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.
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.
Given the circumstances, the stakes are higher than usual.