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Victor Davis Hanson

The Future of Fox News and the Future of America

By Boyd Cathey

It happened on Saturday morning, November 14, 2020, at around 8:15 EST. I had switched over to briefly catch some national news on the Fox News Channel. All of a sudden I heard—and saw—Pete Hegseth… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Fox News
  • Neoconservatism
  • Southern Tradition
  • Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson and “Southern Racism”

By Paul H. Yarbrough

The political structure in the United States is often portrayed by the media and its guests via a histrionic history of federalism. However, it seems, no historian or commentator can speak without referencing Southern (and… »

  • Neoconservatism
  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Reconstruction
  • Victor Davis Hanson

A Neoconservative Wakes Up

By Jerry Salyer

Pro-Southern writers have long been suspicious of Victor Davis Hanson, given his association with the neoconservative ascendance of the Bush II era.   Yet unlike most of his former colleagues, the California classicist seems to have… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Jerry Salyer
  • Political Correctness
  • Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson Hates the Confederacy…and the South

By Boyd Cathey

“Conservative” writer and classicist Victor Davis Hanson hates the Confederacy and the South; he has demonstrated this repeatedly in recent years through his articles published in National Review (where he is a senior contributor) and… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Southern History
  • Victor Davis Hanson

Demonizing the South to Purify the Nation

By Boyd Cathey

Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most lauded and applauded historians of the “conservative establishment.” Honored by President George W. Bush, a regular writer for National Review, spoken of in hushed and admiring tones… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Southern Film
  • Southern Tradition
  • Victor Davis Hanson

Calhoun the Marxist?

By Brion McClanahan

Neo-conservatives can’t seem to make up their mind about the Confederacy. They all agree that the Confederacy represented everything evil about early America (which places them squarely in league with their intellectual brothers on the… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Harry Jaffa
  • John C. Calhoun
  • John Daniel Davidson
  • Neoconservatism
  • United States Constitution
  • Victor Davis Hanson

Jefferson’s “Rightful Remedy”

By Brion McClanahan

This article was originally published at Townhall.com. Victor Davis Hanson has a strange and misguided infatuation with “Confederates.” In June, his widely read National Review piece on the Confederate Battle Flag equated the Confederacy to… »

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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
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  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism
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  • 2012 Scholars Conference: The War Between the States: Other Voices Other Views
  • 2012 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature III
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  • 2005 Summer School: Re-Thinking Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Symbol, The Legacy
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