Victor Davis Hanson – California Globe

Can a Divided Country, or a Neighborhood Divided Reconcile?

May 26, 2025 2:55 amMay 28, 2025 4:01 pm

The signs of political, personal and emotional distress are all around us. Acrid bumper stickers on Subarus and Priuses, yard signs declaring “Good People Don’t Support Nazis,” are still prominently posted in neighbor’s yards. #Resist is alive in my downtown...

Is Governor Gavin Newsom ‘Newsom-Proofing’ California for the Next Republican Governor?

March 24, 2025 2:55 amMarch 24, 2025 2:56 am

California started the year $76 Billion in debt, Victor Davis Hanson reports. That’s $76,000,000,000 BILLION – 9 zeros. California is one of only five states that haven’t recovered to pre-COVID job levels, and even our partial recovery is entirely dependent...

The ‘By Any Means Necessary’ Party Escalated Tirades Against Trump to the Assassination Attempt

July 14, 2024 9:22 amJuly 15, 2024 5:19 pm

While creatures of the Left have been parading themselves in front of like-minded media claiming a Trump presidency would end Democracy as we know it, usher in Fascism and take away women’s rights, their projection continued to escalate to dangerous...

EdSource Article Promoting Racial Preferences Cheapens Higher Ed

January 17, 2024 3:16 pm

A rational person would reason that in the aftermath of the Harvard University Claudine Gay antisemitism, diversity-hire catastrophe, and plagiarism scandal, the only important diversity is that of thought. Merit, rather than skin color is supposed to be the hiring...

California’s Utility Breakdown, Extreme Gas Costs, Homeless Druggies, Water Shortage, Deteriorating Roads, Failing Schools: Who is to Blame?

November 4, 2019 2:08 amNovember 5, 2019 11:45 am

“You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.” ~Gavin Newsom California was developed over the course of a century, yet it has taken only a few decades to tear it down. Incompetence, excessive government, corruption,...

San Francisco Adopts PC Language Instead of Fighting Crime

August 25, 2019 9:48 amAugust 26, 2019 7:10 am

“Societies in decline fixate on impossible postmodern dreams as a way of disguising their inability to address premodern problems.” The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will now call a “justice-involved person,” someone previously known as a “convicted felon,” Lloyd...

Baltimore is just a City; California is a State Transforming into ‘Third World’ Ugly

August 5, 2019 2:20 amAugust 5, 2019 11:23 am

California was once a thriving two party state. We replaced it with the current one party state, one party rule. Scholar and Central Valley resident Victor Davis Hanson calls California “America’s First Third-World State.” “’Third World’ has come to transcend...