2024

Victor Davis Hanson Show

Depositions, Elections, and Military Questions

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc in the Friday news round up: Hunter’s deposition, Michigan elections, predicting the 2024 election, Smirnov’s arrest, Eric Adam’s reservation about sanctuary city status, Kirby says no troops on Ukrainian ground, and Prime Minister Netanyahu interviewed. Share This

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VDH UltraAngry Reader 03-01-2024

From an Angry Reader: Mr. Hansen Normally, I appreciate your insight and political commentary. However, this recent column leaves a LOT to be desired in the intellectual honesty department. First, you refer to the border wall not being built, apparently trying to imply that Trump was opposed at every turn by Congress. The facts are

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American Paralysis and Decline

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.- A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the

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No One Worries about the Tlaxcalans and Other Ironies

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine whether China will invade Taiwan, reparatory admissions degenerate the culture and standards of the university, Tlaxcalans marginalized by the Aztecs, Google-AI as good as its programmers, and rebuilding a barn. Share This

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VDH UltraOde to a Collapsing Barn. Part Five

Victor Davis Hanson The American barn was a symbol, its profile a stark reminder that rural America was healthy and raised families as well as food. The old wisdom of my grandfather echoes as the job nears completion, and I begin to get an inkling of what the finished barn will look like: “You can

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VDH UltraOde to a Collapsing Barn. Part Four

Victor Davis Hanson In the end, I said “Ok, let’s do it”—just as the latest torrential storm hit (so much for the tired warning that the “drought is not over” as we receive two back-to-back near-record years of rain and snow). Over the last two weeks, all sorts of lumber and materials arrived. Manlifts were

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The Ick of the Left in the Campaign Season

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler in a discussion of Trump and Haley post South Carolina, Biden’s ambassador on the “final solution” for Israel, the Left hounds Christian nationalists, elite “collective knowledge” reduced to the level of “The View,” extra-legal methods to suppress Hunter’s scandals, Laken Riley’s illegal-alien murderer, and political electioneering that

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Russia! Russia! Forever: An Anatomy of a Left-wing Obsession

Collusion about Collusion The more candidate Trump in 2016 trolled the Clinton campaign (e.g., “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”), the more the irate left bought into hysterical conspiracy theories. Finally, the left became

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War, Scores and the Last Tragedian

In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Ukraine War two years later, Trump settlement and the NY business community, S.A.T. scores return to university admissions, new non-science in CDC and Health Department decisions, and the last tragedian Euripides. Share This

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