2024

Victor Davis Hanson Show

Aristophanes’ Comedy and Modern Secrets and Fantasies

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for discussion of Aristophanes and some current news: US-Hamas in secret talks, illegal immigrants and secret transport, California Senatorial race, Musk imbroglios, and Pope Francis’ fantasies from the Vatican. Share This

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Advantage Trump and Other Notable Matches

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc analyze the SCOTUS decision against de-balloting Trump, Trump’s other expectation in the lawfare cases, Super Tuesday results, California criminals can file “systemic racism” appeals, Victoria Nuland quits, and Joy Reid can’t stop being Joy Reid. Share This

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VDH UltraThe Mythologies of the Middle East: Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson The Myth of the Oppressed Palestinians There are lots of refugees in the world with much longer claims of displacement than the Palestinians, and also some with much more recent suffering. And yet we hear nothing about them. Does anyone challenge Turkish president Erdogan for his ongoing threats to send missiles into

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Newsom’s Cronyism, DOJ’s Threat, and Intellectual Thieves

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Newsom’s friends exempted from CA labor laws, insurance companies disappear from CA, Trump’s new campaign ad, the cartel-Chinese-fentanyl nexus, the DOJ’s indictments send a message to political opponents, and many DEI administrators are not just intellectual thieves but intellectual impediments. Share This

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The Ukrainian Verdun

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front of World War I. That meat grinder cost France and Germany some 700,000 dead and wounded. The nightmare ended ten months later, after the heroic French

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VDH UltraThe Mythologies of the Middle East: Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson The Myth of “Proportionality” As a general rule, in the long history of war, victory is found only by being disproportionate in the use of force. That is a truism so banal as to need little elaboration. When both sides are “proportionate” in their ability to harm their opponents, the result is

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VDH UltraThe Mythologies of the Middle East: Part One

Victor Davis Hanson Hamas Is an Aberration Without Popular Support? After the forced removal of all Israelis from Gaza in 2005, and the Western-sanctioned election of 2006 that led to Hamas taking power, there has not been a single election. The Middle East rule of “one election, one time” has been in effect for over

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Trump Too Tough to Trump and Rural America

Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Trump’s polls, trials, voters, and strategic possibilities. Then they examine the Central Valley of California, the blaming and defaming of white rural people, the “12 O’Clock High” series, and Israel’s dilemma. Share This

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Gearing Up for ‘Biden’ Versus Trump: Not If, But When and How to Replace Biden

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness President Joe Biden is declining at a geometric, not an arithmetic, rate. His cognitive challenges are multifaceted. His gait is shaky. His daily use of stairs now risks the chance of a tenure-ending fall. Even when he sticks to the teleprompter, he so slurs his speech, mispronounces words, and glides

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