2024

VDH UltraOde to a Collapsing Barn. Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson So, 150 years after the barn’s birth, the last month’s California storms started to flop up the roof sheets again. In one gusty hour, I saw the roofline sway and the barn itself shake. Another far more skilled and imaginative roofer came out who two years ago had saved some of the […]

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Blue Laws for Red Citizens

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed $500 million. Trump awaits further civil and criminal liability in three other federal, state, and local indictments. There are eerie commonalities in all these five court cases

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Our Jacobins: a Smorgasbord of News

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler analyze the news: breaking critics of Left policy, hunting down and terrorizing over pronouns, 90-year-old fired for pronoun confusion, the spectacle of a transexual funeral at Catholic diocese, remembering the nuclear family, interfering in Israel’s politics, and squatters taking over homes in the US. Share

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VDH UltraOde to a Collapsing Barn. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson When the almond shakers and sweepers of the surrounding orchards kicked up clouds of dust the floors by this November were 3–4 inches deep in dirt. It was in theory a barn, but so perforated and porous that the inside was not much different from the world outside. About 10 years ago

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A Warning: Trials, Testimony and the Trump Treatment

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the Letitia James ruling, Willis testimony, treatment of Trump is a message to NY businessmen, could Trump lose in November, East Palestine visit, dealing with illegals, anticipating voters in 2024, Birmingham, AL in 1963, and Venezuelan troops on Guyana border. Share This

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VDH UltraOde to a Collapsing Barn. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson I was told by my grandfather (1890–1976) that his grandmother Lucy Anna Davis (1832–1923) when she and her boys arrived by train here from Missouri (ca. 1870–71), bought what is now left of our present farm from the railroad (ca. $4 an acre contingent on improvements made within a set period of

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Delusions, Alternate Realities, and the Biden Consortium

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Hunter Biden has a train of a dozen lawyers defending him on felony indictments ranging from several counts of tax fraud to gun violations. From time to time, the contents of his laptop come up, both in these criminal trials and in civil suits. The information on the laptop is,

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Ancient Tragedians and Modern Agonistes

Join the weekend episode with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for analysis of Biden’s speech on Alexei Navalny death, Fani Willis’s trial, the Shellenberger-Taibbi-Gutentag investigation, a third party in our democracy, and the ancient Greek tragedians, Sophocles and Aeschylus. Share This

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Eyes Open Wide: Hoaxes, Indictments and Whistleblowers

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for the news roundup: Kansas City shooting, Mayorkas impeached, China scare, two-state solution nightmare, government culpability in the Russian hoax, Elise Stefanik, Tony Bobulinski, and more. Share This

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VDH UltraVictor Davis Hanson Responds to Angry Reader Michael Dernburg Continued

What is the Matter with Victor? Part Two 4) By late 2019, the Trump administration finally had managed to cease stop-and-release, rebuild over 500 miles of the rickety border fence, begin on new portions of it, demand refugees apply for status in their own countries, and leverage President Obrador of Mexico to stop transiting millions

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