1,286 words
In biology, convergent evolution explains how different species can develop genetic traits with similar form or function, yet be evolutionarily quite distinct. Such analogous structures are acquired independently rather than inherited from a common ancestor. One classic example is the sugar glider and the flying squirrel. (more…)
3,074 words
Victor Davis Hanson
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
New York: Basic Books, 2024
Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classics professor and an author of many books on ancient history and war. He is on the political right, leaning towards the civic nationalist and conservative side of things. (more…)
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
3,059 words
I have “conservative” friends and family members who enthuse over the political commentary of Victor Davis Hanson. His columns appear on American Greatness (AG), where its writers regularly huff and puff against liberals and Leftists.
At first glance, what’s not to like about this fifth-generation Californian of Swedish and Welsh ancestry who is a retired Classics professor, a military historian, and a part-time farmer who broke ranks with the Conservative Inc., National Review bottom feeders from the DC Swamp to write and speak in defense of and support for Donald Trump? (more…)
Ron Johnson. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Ron Johnson. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
1,644 words
As I write this, the final results of the 2022 midterm election remain in doubt, but it appears that the Republicans will win a bare majority in the House and gain half the Senate. Georgia’s Senate race will be determined in a runoff. Regardless of whoever wins there, Georgia will not produce a very good Senator. (more…)
1,783 words
Studying military history is entertaining and practical. You might not be interested in war, but war is certainly interested in you. On September 10, 2001, I was expecting to spend as much free time as I could hunting that autumn, but by mid-morning the next day I was focused on training for a real war.
War is often the summit of achievement, be that an achievement of a national leader, a nation, or an individual. (more…)
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
1,742 words
We are now nearly a year into Senile Joe’s presidency, and something highly alarming has already happened: America has lost its power to deter. “Deterrence,” writes Victor Davis Hanson, “is the ancient ability to scare somebody off from hurting you, your friends, or your interests — without a major war.”
The Russians — not “the Russians” who hack elections, but the real live sons of Czar Alexander’s valiant army — are carrying out considerable military activity in Eastern Europe. (more…)
