“States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.” PeopleThinkingWayStatesEventsAwfulDramaticConventionalStatus QuoWay Of ThinkingLax Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsIdeasUseGovernmentDifficultTermWealthAttitudeGroupsSubjectsParticularMassAngryPrivilegeIdeologyIf I CouldElitesRamificationsOverused Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“I think there's a group of students - whether it's the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner a lot of attention - but that the fundamental issues that they're more interested in are - and I'll be very frank here - how much money do I pay for a unit? And what is that unit going to do for me when I'm graduating?And even though this is mostly in a progressive landscape, they're asking questions that have not been asked of the university. And the university can't supply answers to them.” ThinkingSpaceAnswersPayAttentionIssuesGroupsStudentsSafeAskingFundamentalsUniversityLandscapeProgressiveWarningGraduatesFrankAggressionUnitsTriggersAsking QuestionsSafe Space Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“I think everybody realizes some things went wrong in the Middle East and that most of the terrorism is emanating from that area.” ThinkingRealizingMiddleAreasTerrorismEastMiddle East Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Racial inequality has gotten worse in the last years because any time you have a moribund economy, the people who historically have had more problems getting jobs have suffered. And that, I think, is triggering a lot of the animosity.” PeopleThinkingYearsProblemJobsLastsEconomyInequalityLast YearAnimosity Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter movement]. The fact that you want to argue rather than find some common ground, I think, has gotten a lot worse in the last years.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsMatterFactsLastsBlackCommonMovementStudentsArguingLast YearBlack Lives MatterSympatheticCampusCommon GroundBlack Lives Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.” PeopleThinkingLateCongressHalls Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“We have had raucous moments in our history. And I think we're in one now. But it's not going to endanger the future of democracy.” ThinkingMomentsDemocracy Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“I think the Democrat Party is taking its cue from the media. When the media has a narrative, whether it's the use of profanity, the Democratic Party follows it.” ThinkingPartyDemocraticDemocratDemocratic PartyProfanity Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they?” IfsThinkingShouldStillsFactsAmericaDesireLibertyEnemyWorryCitizensShameSensitiveWho We AreMinoritiesShoreHomosexualLicenseProsperousHave ConfidenceDecadenceInsensitiveOutspokenMagnanimityLiberality Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the Constitution by granting a blanket amnesty, with his efforts to do just that when it was no longer politically inexpedient. I don't think a president has ever quite so habitually warned the country of the dangers that would soon emanate from himself.” ThinkingCountryPresidentEffortDangerKingsConstitutionImmigrationLegacyBlanketEmperorNotableSerialsInsistenceAmnestyEmanateJuxtaposition Author:Victor Davis Hanson
