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 CBS’s iconic 60 Minutes has had plenty of scandals and embarrassments in its long 57-year history, most notably the fake-but-accurate Dan Rather mess. Yet never has it found itself in greater disrepute than in 2024. Donald Trump,
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the fallout from Kamala’s interview with Bret Baier, the Al Smith Memorial Dinner, thoughts on J6 show trials, RFK, Jr. receiving the Left’s apostate treatment, Trump at a barber shop, and Israel taking out Yahya Sinwar and doing other dirty work for the US.
This weekend episode with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc highlights the wars between the Battle for Britain and the invasion of Russia in 1940-41. News stories include Kamala Harris’s plagiarism, media preps the battle ground for Trump interference charges, Walz’s record in Minnesota, and United Nation installations providing a front for Hezbollah.
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for a look at the week’s news: Bret Baier interviews Harris, media coverup of so many things left, the theater of Kamala, close Senate races, and Gallup poll on Republican newcomers.
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.
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).
