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Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson writes VDH’s Blade of Perseus, a personal blog at victorhanson.com about politics and history. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Victor Davis Hanson's essays on politics, education and rural life. In these comments his pieces are cited as background on Saudi women's rights and as a source for a claim about liberal arts degrees.
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As a PHD professor, author, media personality and Hoover Institute fellow, VDH is an intellectual historian and political commentator.
What Hacker News says?
Oddly enough, this represents progress of a sort. Until fairly recently, Saudi women did not have identity numbers or cards, effectively meaning that they could be murdered by relatives with no repercussions. http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/burton022005.html
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on “Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women”Submitted The Bay Area's 1 Percenters as a story · 26 points
HN discussion>"too many liberal arts degrees and too few agribusiness BAs" This is a silly meme. If you look at government data on college degrees (which only goes up to 2004 as far as I can tell), humanities aren't over-represented at all, but account for between 8 and 12 percent of Bachelor degrees awarded[1]. That's History, English, Philosophy, etc. combined[2]. It would be more accurate to say that more people in business s…
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on “When Land Is History”Submitted We Are in Need of Renaissance People as a story · 19 points
HN discussion"It’s easy to understand why people in less-educated classes would conclude that they are under economic, political, cultural and moral assault — and why they’ve rallied around Trump as their best warrior against the educated class." The author assumes that the demographic of Trump supporters includes more "less-educated" people than non-Trump supporters without presenting any supporting evidence or citations. I'd l…
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on “What If We’re the Bad Guys Here?”Submitted California the Great Destroyer as a story · 3 points
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