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 Eeyore’s Cabinet Race. The recent verdicts in the Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases remind us that in the post-OJ age, the current jury system usually works well enough—given the former was rightly found innocent of murder and
Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler discusses Putin’s Russia and losing deterrence, criminals targeting the stores of the wealthy, 2022 election predictions, and why citizens are leaving Blue states for Red.
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they talk over the new COVID strain, Black Friday, China’s image and power, Black Tuesday in Greece, the non-citizen voters, and Joe Biden’s Thanksgiving on Nantucket.
We are all thankful for our soldiers-at-arms. Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc examine Cortez’s defeat of the Aztecs and the 2012 Benghazi attack on 911 — captivating tales of skill, duty and solidarity.
Victor Davis Hanson compares the Darrell Brooks incident in Waukesha and the Kyle Rittenhouse incident in Kenosha, two towns 60 miles apart. His cohost Sami Winc wonders if American citizens are turning away from the strange binary culture created by the Left.
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Jack Fowler about the Left’s projectionist bent, the new racism on the the Left, the penury of academic research, and sketchy Republicans who voted for the infrastructure bill. There is a light: Leprechauns and Thanksgiving on the farm.
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the Rittenhouse verdict in depth, the Left’s overreach, COVID truths, and the political polls that show increasingly citizens dislike the Left agenda.
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).
