Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Have We Learned Anything from Ukraine? 6) We have a 79-year-old impaired president and a vice president who is cogent but scarier. The former was nominated by the Democrats’ late primary season terror of woke candidates, the latter was the woke payoff for Biden’s nomination. Both nonentities likely convince Putin […]
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One of the oddest commentaries about the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the boilerplate reaction that “borders can’t change in modern Europe” or “this does not happen in the 21st century.” But why in the world should the 21st century be exempt from the pathologies of the past 20 centuries?
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk with Sami Winc about Thucydides and moments in his History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’ funeral oration, the revolt of Mitylene, civil war at Corcira, and the Melian Dialogue. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Ukraine crisis and California’s crises. They finish with J.K. Rowlings and the culture wars. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Have We Learned Anything from Ukraine? We know why Putin invaded Ukraine: he wants to restore the borders of the old Soviet Union and with them the power and glory of a lost empire that had 100 million more people and nearly 30 percent more of the territory than Russia
Transgender athletes, China connections, San Francisco recall, African-American unemployment: listen to analysis by Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler. They finish with polls showing the effects of Left dystopia on the electorate. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For all his caginess, dissimulation, and opportunism, Vladimir Putin is more or less predictable. Putin’s aims? The Russian president’s two-decade dilemma has been how to reclaim the prestige and power of the former Soviet Union—but with only 75 percent of his country’s former territory and 140 million fewer people. When
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet So the bicoastal classes—the West that looks out on Asia, the East that is tied to the EU—feel their brains, their cattle-brand stamped degrees, their money, and their tastes have advanced them to Eloi status. Some are certainly brilliant and explain much of the current American GDP. That said, many
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore the motives of Putin, the ideas of Conservative nationalism, Trudeau’s folly, Jan. 6 or the emptiness of the Left agenda, and finally Hillary’s crimes exposed by the Durham Investigation. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The elite bicoastal and professional Left are strange creatures—a peculiar hothouse species of American plant that has adapted to a particular time and place in American history. They either cheered on or were indifferent to the damage of 120-days of arson, riot, looting, death, assault, and occupation of downtown property