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We Must Not Disrespect the Past

Published on August 3, 2025 By sirrahc

“So often in the age of presentism, we in our narcissism and arrogance confuse our technical and material successes with automatic moral progress.” — Victor Davis Hanson I know, I know. I just had a post not long ago in which I quoted the author/commentator Victor Davis Hanson, a respected classicist and military historian. Normally, […]

Trump Continues to Defy the “Experts”

Published on July 13, 2025 By sirrahc

“The first six months of the Donald Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes.” — Victor Davis Hanson I initially became aware of Victor Davis Hanson roughly 20 years ago when he occasionally guested on a radio show I listened to back then — iirc, it was the Hugh […]

An Appropriate U.S. Response to Iran

Published on June 30, 2019 By sirrahc

“The truth is that Iran and the United States are now engaged in a great chess match. But the stakes are not those of intellectual gymnastics. The game is no game, for it involves the lives, and possible deaths, of thousands.” — Victor Davis Hanson, noted author/historian/professor For the past couple days, the biggest Trump […]

A Coming California Reckoning

Published on March 17, 2019 By sirrahc

“Ignore the economic solutions that work; and instead turn to failed socialist policies dictated by ideology rather than reality. That’s the California way.” — writer at “Start Thinking Right” blog California is a beautiful place. Traveling the length and breadth of the state, one would see mountains, desert, forests, plateaus, beaches, grape and orange orchards, […]