Americans feel that ordinary citizens like themselves who follow the rules are treated more harshly by their own government than are both noncitizens and our own progressive elites.
By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, June 8, 2022
Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. …
I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry.
Anxieties swept the group as Israeli testers swabbed them.
Anyone testing positive would have to delay his return. That quarantine would entail spending thousands of dollars in finding scarce hotel accommodations, additional living expenses, and rebooked airline tickets—depending upon the length of the mandatory sequestration. …
St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. Principle facade, view from Jackson Square in 1849. Author Jacques Nicolas Bussière de Pouilly (1804–1875). Public domain. This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.