VDH's Blade of Perseus // Private Papers
Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender.
Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically “overrepresented” in offering the ultimate sacrifice to their country.
When generals, active and retired, have become controversial, usually conservative America could be counted on to stick with them.
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The election is finally shaping up to be not only liberal Democrat Harris versus conservative Republican Trump. Instead, it has become a larger contest between those who talk down to their fellow Americans and those
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Kamala Harris’s plagiarism, the unrecognized Clinton, Walz fumbling his gun ad, state Republican candidates do much better than expected, exorcising the Dems attempts to assail Trump’s political career, and the uniqueness of Israel.
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to analyze Gretchen Whitmer’s mockery of Catholicism, polls and Trump momentum, Stanford policy corrections, Obama lectures black males, Walz’s new directive, and General Milley up to his old tricks.
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson considers more campaign news from the week — Trump isn’t weaponizing assassination attempts, Walz on the electoral college, and Biden’s stealth in a time of failing health — and assesses the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for a look at the Kamala Harris interviews, FEMA’s foibles, what happened to the October 7 protests, and the whistle being blown on Trump security.
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the polls and electoral college vote, Senate races, Kamala’s quandary with Biden, chauvinism and the new masculinity, Glock-legislation Kamala opposed, Coates meets Dokoupil’s critique, Renaissance people have no lane, and the many fronts of Israel’s war.
Carson Jorgensen and VDH talk about everything from the fall of higher education to agriculture in California.
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007, and the Bradley Prize in 2008, as well as the Edmund Burke Award (2018), William F. Buckley Prize (2015), the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award (2006), and the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002).
