2023

VDH UltraWokism and History. Part Three: “The Commissariat”

Victor Davis Hanson Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany divided up Poland. Germany invaded first from the north, west, and south, the Soviet Union subsequently from the east. By early October the war was over. A victorious Germany concluded that while its forces had learned much about […]

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Independence Day Goes Woke

Join Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Jack Fowler as they discuss PACs pushing back against Donald Trump in the 2024 election, Michigan wanting to give China money to build factories in the state, injecting ideology into the criminal justice system and the America’s Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) is going to be very different than its Bicentennial.

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VDH UltraWokism and History. Part Two: “Correct Physics”

Victor Davis Hanson One characteristic of wokism is the promotion of the mediocre on the basis of ideological correctness—a formula to attract incompetent careerists and toady opportunists. One characteristic of National Socialism that we rarely emphasize was its destruction of merit. “Jewish physics” translated into the expulsion of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in Nazi

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The Destruction of American Cities

VDH and co-host Jack Fowler discuss the left’s destruction of some of America’s greatest cities through their policies and ideology of being light on crime. Also, more Biden family corruption, the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, and the relationship between what the Soviets did with athletes and what we see today with males competing

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VDH UltraWokism and History. Part One: “Correct Vocabulary”

Victor Davis Hanson The outbreak of ideological madness is not new to the 21st century. The historian Thucydides in the third book of his history (written sometime from ca. 420–390 B.C.) paused from his general account of the war to chronicle a cycle of ideological-driven violence on the island of Corcyra (modern Corfu) during the

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Can We Do Anything About America’s Decline?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline—until it began to implode. Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the 2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the deranged fixation on removing

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