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.
The leftwing media is shrieking about the impending “end of democracy” given the looming “Trump dictatorship” they fear. Characteristic of their scenarios is that they never follow up to cite extralegal actions Trump took while President. Let’s examine areas where
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc to examine the 4th GOP debate, the new, old cries and lies of Trump’s authoritarianism, university presidents who dither on policy against genocide speak, and the government’s lies and State Department’s censorship.
On this episode, join Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Jack Fowler as they discuss the latest in the Jussie Smollett case, Derek Chauvin being stabbed in prison, how the left project their prejudice and bias, what’s happening in Ireland and the beginning of Hanukkah.
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the DeSantis-Newsom debate, Trump on BLM, Blinken clipping the heels of Israel, and a memoriam of Henry Kissinger.
On this weekend edition episode, join Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Sami Winc as they discuss activist judges fighting Trump, Henry Kissinger’s passing and other news. Victor and Sami also continue their in-depth look at The Iliad.
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this week’s news roundup: hostages released by Hamas, New York City school teacher assailed for pro-Israel views, “Napoleon’s” numbers and Disney’s blunders, GOP presidential candidates, and California school get “media literacy” classes.
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler at they discuss Article 88 in the Military Code of Conduct and General Hayden’s political statements, Biden’s energy slush fund, trade school and private university costs and needed reforms, understanding Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, and a warning for Iran on aggression in this current war.
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).
