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Victor Davis Hanson est un historien militaire américain né le 5 septembre 1953 à Fowler en Californie, spécialiste de la Grèce antique, et professeur émérite à l'Université d'État de Californie.

Victor Davis Hanson s'est fait connaître par la publication de Guerre et agriculture dans la Grèce antique , ouvrage dans lequel il explique que l'on a beaucoup surestimé l'impact que pouvaient avoir les destructions de récoltes effectuées par des armées sur le territoire de leur adversaire Il a également travaillé sur la matérialité des combats, dans la lignée des études de John Keegan. L'historien militaire anglais a pour sa part salué dans Le Modèle occidental de la guerre, un ouvrage « d'une importance profonde », qui a sa place aux côtés du Monde d'Ulysse de Moses I. Finley. Toutefois, l'idée qu'il existerait un ethos occidental de la guerre, qui serait né dans la Grèce de l'Antiquité et qui serait encore celui de l'Occident actuel, associée à une sympathie marquée pour l'idéologie neo-conservatrice , a provoqué des réticences : ainsi, l'historien français Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau voit dans les thèses de Hanson « une position idéologique qui instrumentalise les sciences sociales ». Wikipedia

✵ 5. septembre 1953 • Autres noms ویکتور دیویس هاسون, ヴィクター・デーヴィス・ハンソン

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“In the summer of 1864, pessimists warned that the North could not win the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln faced opposition for the Republican-party nomination, and even if he won it, he was considered likely to lose the November election to Union general George McClellan. General Grant’s Army of the Potomac was being bled white in Virginia in vain attempts to dislodge Robert E. Lee’s defenders from their entrenchments around the Confederate capital of Richmond. Gruesome encounters such as the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Battle of the Wilderness had given the depressed Northern public nightmares. Then, suddenly, fantasy became reality. The maverick General William Tecumseh Sherman unexpectedly took Atlanta on September 2, 1864. Euphoria swept the North. McClellan’s sure-thing candidacy crashed. The mercurial Sherman then headed off with his huge army on the famous “March to the Sea” through Georgia. He next plowed through the Carolinas to the rear of Lee’s army in Virginia. In less than nine months the entire Confederate cause collapsed. The supposedly endless Civil War ended with a sudden and absolute Union victory that no one had foreseen.”

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2010s, The American Art of Renewal (2018)

“If we were to take a newly arrived illegal alien, and enroll him in a typical Chicano Studies course, he would logically wish to return across the border as soon as possible.”

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2010s, 1984 Redux: Orwellian Illegal Immigration (2014)

“Europeans are unable to understand why a young Libyan came to Europe in the first place, and why apparently under no circumstances does he wish to return home. Specifically, Europeans — for a variety of 20th-century historical and cultural reasons — often are either ignorant of who they are or terrified about expressing their identities in any concrete and positive fashion. The result is that Europe cannot impose on a would-be newcomer any notion that consensual government is superior to the anarchy and theocracy of the Middle East, that having individual rights trumps being subjects of a dictator, that personal freedom is a better choice than statist tyranny, that protection of private property is a key to economic growth whereas law by fiat is not, and that independent judiciaries do not run like Sharia courts. It most certainly cannot ask of immigrants upon arrival that they either follow the laws of a society that originally made Europe attractive to them, or return home to live under a system that they apparently rejected. I omit for obvious reasons that few present-day Europeans believe that Christianity is much different from Islam, and apparently thus assume that terrorists might just as well be Christians.”

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2010s, Europe at the Edge of the Abyss (2016)

“It is time to step back from the apartheid brink…”

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2010s, Diversity: History's Pathway to Chaos (2016)

“[W]hat bothers the New York Times is not racism per se, but who is the racist and who are her targets.”

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2010s, The Double Standards of Postmodern Justice (2018)

“A Latino-American undergraduate who is a student of Shakespeare is not "culturally appropriating" anyone’s white-European legacy, but instead seeking transcendence of ideas and a common humanity. Asian-Americans are not “overrepresented” at premier campuses. Their high-profile presence should be praised as a model, not punished as aberrant by number-crunching bureaucrats. African-Americans who excel in physics and engineering are not “acting white” but finding the proper pathways for their natural talents. Being one-half Southeast Asian or three-quarters white is not the touchstone to one’s essence and is irrelevant to one’s character and conduct. No one is impinging on anyone’s culture when blacks dye their hair blond, or when blondes prefer to wear cornrow braids. Campuses desperately need unity czars, not diversity czars. Otherwise, we will end up as 50 separate and rival nations — just like other failed states in history whose diverse tribes and races destroyed themselves in a Hobbesian dog-eat-dog war with one another.”

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2010s, Diversity: History's Pathway to Chaos (2016)

“[R]acial difference and ethnic pride are no longer just fossilized notions from the 1960s; they are growing fissures in the American mosaic that now threaten to split the country apart — fueling the suspicion of less liberal and more homogeneous nations that the great American experiment will finally unwind as expected. That would be a great tragedy, but a catastrophe entirely predictable if citizens seek symbolic solidarity with their tribe rather than in the common idea of just being American.”

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2010s, America: One Nation, Indivisible (2015)

“Europeans are not having children for lots of reasons. A static and fossilized economy without much growth gives little hope to a 20-something European that he or she can get a good job, buy a home, have three children, and provide for those offspring lives with unlimited choices. Instead, the young European bides his time, satisfying his appetites, as a perpetual adolescent who lives in his parents’ flat, seeks to milk the system, and waits for someone to die at the tribal government bureau. After a lost decade, one hopes to hook up with some like soul in her or his late thirties.”

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2010s, Europe at the Edge of the Abyss (2016)

“It is difficult to determine whether Georgians hated Sherman and his army as much as the Spartans despised Epaminondas and the Thebans. Both men had wrecked their centuries-old practice of apartheid in a matter of weeks. It is a dangerous and foolhardy thing for a slaveholding society to arouse a democracy of such men.”

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p. 9 https://books.google.com/books?id=GGbkHUePtVwC&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false
1990s, The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (1999)

“In the last half-century, Americans have increasingly tended to emphasize race and tribe in promoting “diversity,” rather than seeking to strengthen the more tenuous notion of unity with their fellow citizens. We have forgotten that human nature is fond of division and must work at setting aside superficial tribal affinities to unite on the basis of core values and ideas.”

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2010s, America: One Nation, Indivisible (2015)

“Vladimir Putin is a thug and a killer who in the grand tradition of Russian autocracy has no intention ever of holding free elections.”

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2010s, Why Does the Left Suddenly Hate Russia? (2017)