Commentary

What Will Historians Make of Our Annus Horribilis?

By Victor Davis Hanson
Wednesday, December 30 2020

The year 2020 is now commonly dubbed the annus horribilis — "the horrible year." The last 10 months certainly have been awful. But then so was 1968, when both Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. The Tet Offensive escalated the Vietnam War and tore America apart. Race and anti-war riots rocked our major cities. Protesters fought with police at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. A new influenza virus, H3N2 (the "Hong Kong flu"), killed some 100,000 Americans. But an even worse 2020 saw the COVID-19 outbreak reach global pandemic…

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