2025

Who Has Been Busy Destroying Democracy?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Destroying democracy”—the latest theme of the left—can be defined in many different ways. How about attempting to destroy constitutional, ancient, and hallowed institutions simply to suit short-term political gains? So, who in 2020, and now once again, has boasted about packing the 156-year-old, nine-justice Supreme Court? Who talks frequently about

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VDH UltraThe Rise and Fall of Family Farming in the West, Part Two

As far as the new sort of rural settlements divorced from farm-ownership, gang activity and break-ins are now as common as the territorial graffiti that identifies every concrete standpipe along these rural roads. The trees and vines do not know it, but they now apparently belong to the turf of rural gang bangers, who tag

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VDH UltraThe Rise and Fall of Family Farming in the West, Part One

Victor Davis Hanson The era of the small farmer in California and for that matter along much of the Western United States, where settlement and agrarianism came late in the latter 19th century, is about over. Globalism created huge foreign markets and, more importantly, American-controlled farms abroad designed for export to the U.S. that enjoyed

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Victor Davis Hanson Show

The Coarsening of the Culture and Howard’s End

Victor Davis Hanson and host Jack Fowler on the meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska, the nature of war and deterrence, the decline of Howard Stern, cultural coarseness in public discourse, the controversial policy of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, and more. Share This

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