The Traditionalist: Biden, Borders and Other Left Breaches
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler review current Progressive policy failures, the puzzling anti-Semitism, and the riddle that is Hunter Biden. Share This
2021
VDH UltraWhat Made Us Go Crazy? Part One:
Ignorance of What America Was and Is As the 2020 election season began, the New York Times promised its readers a recalibration of American history called “The 1619 Project.” The ensuing series of essays and media kits had a twofold agenda. One was to rewrite the origins of American history as the four-century foreign intrusion
The Symptoms of Our Insanity
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Think for a minute. When did we become a nation of socialist AOCs wearing “Tax the Rich” dresses to $35,000-a-ticket celebrity galas, without mandatory masks, while being served by masked servants—a now tired script from the Obama birthday bash crowd to the grandees at the Emmys? When did we discover
Week In Review: Reflections and Regressions
The Week in Review This week there is a great exchange between Victor Davis Hanson and General H. R. McMaster. Find it at the bottom in the “Serendipity” section. Otherwise, the content order is the following: podcasts, American Greatness, VDH Ultra Content, with Serendipity last. Sami Winc Share This
The Culturalist: Technology and Education
VDH discusses with Sami Winc Israel’s Iron Dome, Wuhan virus, and education in our public institutions. Animals, a historical perspective, completes the episode. Share This
Citizens Lamed
Wilfred M. McClayThe New Criterion The title of “citizen” has lost much of the simple grandeur it once had. It deserves far better, and as Victor Davis Hanson shows in his learned, powerful, and troubling new book, The Dying Citizen, the steady devolution of citizenship speaks volumes about where we are today and where we
VDH UltraReflections on 2020—the Worst Year in the Last Half-Century: Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The Silicon Valley Octopus Flexed its Tentacles In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the author describes a soulless world created by an authoritarian cadre that controlled even the thoughts of its subjects through massive electronic surveillance. An all-powerful state bureaucracy warped language, ideas, and history to convince and coerce the
The Classicist: Destroying Culture
VDH and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the destruction of civic culture, the return of tribalism, attacks on the middle class, the recall of Newsom, faulty science, and the loss of shame. A composition picture! Share This
Civilization Requires Deterrence
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Deterrence is the ancient ability to scare somebody off from hurting you, your friends, or your interests—without a major war. Desire peace? Then be prepared for war. Or so the Romans believed. It’s an easily understood concept in the abstract. But deterrence still remains a mystical quality in the concrete
Afghanistan’s Past, Present, and Future
General H. R. McMaster and military historian Victor Davis Hanson are both senior fellows at the Hoover Institution. In this frank, no-holds-barred conversation, they discuss the United States’ mission in Afghanistan: how it began, how it was conducted, and its ignominious end. Share This