News about Victor Davis Hanson

The American exceptionalism is 'running on fumes,' and the belief that the United States is BETTER than every other nation on Earth is jeopardized by revival apologetic campaigns that stifle innovation and meritocracy

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 10, 2024
An extraordinary threat to the country's claim to leadership is to blame American exceptionalism, which was based on its unique opportunities and freedoms. The people who founded the country would suffer under today's government overreach and DEI initiatives tailored to stifle individuality, according to Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ex Harvard president Claudine Gay has been credited with the new ideology, which emphasizes identity over talent, as well as wealth. We still have more talent and resources than in any other world.' We're still the free world. However, all of the odds are stacking up against the individual who made America great,' he said. We're going to be on spitters,' a coworker said.

Leading scholars have urged Harvard's new president to be hired based on merit rather than DEI to show that the prestige of the university has not been undermined.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 3, 2024
Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday after being accused of plagiarism and chastised for attending a congressional hearing, in which she was unable to comment definitively that calls for the genocide of Jews would breach the school's conduct policy. The whole affair,' according to Fox News' William Bennett, who served as Education Secretary in the Reagan administration, is "an example of the utmost mistrust of our most prestigious organizations." He went on to say that Gay, Harvard's first black president, was admitted in the first place due to the university's "wild race conscience." ' Bennett said, 'Special attention is given to race both in the recruiting process and then, as well as in the installation of their presiding officer.' We're no longer getting people based on merit, and it's permeating all of society.' Though historian Victor Davis Hanson said in a tweet earlier this week that Harvard should not look beyond DEI when searching for a new president.