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 7. Given you have been critical of Donald Trump for addressing protesters on January 6 and have criticized as reckless his warning to them, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc explore David Hume’s life and role in the Scottish Enlightenment. They discuss the warning to Israel to hold back, Tulsi Gabbard trailed by TSA, Trump-Harris debate will happen, Harris-Walz “vibes-joy” campaign, Walz’s past works against him.
In the Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Jamie Raskin’s call for invoking the 14th Amendment to take down Trump, the Harris choices, the Squad losing re-election bids, how the Left deals with debt, Biden’s absence from the scene, and California as Kamala’s offering to the country.
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine the VP pick Tim Walz, overlooking Josh Shapiro, Iran’s choices as the Middle East heats up, Israel in a good position, UK progressives assail protestors and not the murderer they protest, and the KSM deal rescinded.
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for discussion of the alleged Jimmy Carter wish to vote for Kamala, do’s and don’ts for Trump, Kamala’s husband’s nanny affair, leaving the Taliban millions at Bagram, China’s covid caused and causes misery, and socialist-communist leftists and the proclivity for authoritarian methods: on the last topic, Maduro’s re-election or not (?) and Biden, created by the coup has fallen by the coup.
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).
