VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson What then really happened in the Bergdorf Goodman department store some 30 years ago after a chance meeting, flirting, a mutually agreed exit to a secluded dressing room, and the ensuing some three minutes alone? No one knows (or now cares much) but most agree there was plenty of reasonable doubt to […]
REPOST: Even California Cannot Defy Nature Forever (Nov 21, 2018)
Victor Davis Hanson // City Journal REPOST: Originally published on Nov 21, 2018 California has been clouded under a blanket of smoke for weeks. Stanford University, where I work, sent students and faculty home early for Thanksgiving. The campus is more than 200 miles southwest of the 150,000-acre Camp Fire that just incinerated the Sierra Nevada […]
VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson 4) The judge in the case, a Bill Clinton appointee, Lewis A. Kaplan, ruled nonstop against the Trump legal team, chastising them at every turn. And a sometimes exasperated and raucous Trump was reprimanded continuously by Kaplan, whose rulings on the admissibility of evidence and rebukes to the respective teams consistently favored […]
REPOST: California’s Water Wars (Summer 2011)
Victor Davis Hanson // City Journal REPOST: Originally published in Summer 2011 California’s water wars aren’t about scarcity. Even with 37 million people and the nation’s most irrigation-intensive agriculture, the state usually has enough water for both people and crops, thanks to the brilliant hydrological engineering of past generations of Californians. But now there is […]
Revealed, and Revealed Again: The Many Ironies on the Left
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Trump being sentenced, the ironies of the left revealed by Trump, Karen Bass as an icon of the Democratic Party, would Rick Caruso as mayor be different, Newsom needing Trump, and rebuilding California.
Beyond Peak Woke?: VDH Interviews Ilya Shapiro on Our University Censors
In this special episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks to Ilya Shapiro about his law school experience and university employment as a senior lecturer at Georgetown Center for the Constitution, from which he was forced to resign for opinion on SCOTUS DEI hiring.
Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California
Firebombing on the Pacific Over 25,000 acres are ablaze in Los Angeles in the Pacific Palisades fire, a veritable living hell. Some 12,000-plus structures were incinerated. More than 250,000 souls have been evacuated and are in need of shelter. No one has really taken charge yet. And now even the woke culprits for the catastrophe […]
Fire, Trump’s New, and The Temple to Artemis
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the 4th of the wonder of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. They also look at the California fires, ‘newsy’ news on Trump, Honduras, and the presidential panorama at Carter’s funeral.
VDH UltraFixing California Fires
VDH Ultra Victor Davis Hanson explains what California needs to do to fix its fires. Click on the title “Fixing California Fires” or “Continue Reading…” and scroll down a bit to get to the video.
Beyond the Flames: The Devastation of Los Angeles Fires
Listen to the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the Palisades fire in LA and the issues of water, insurance, DEI, Newsom, Mayor Bass, fire Chief Kristin Crowley, and other news from the week — Zuckerberg, Trudeau, Greenland and Panama.
America and Europe Can Hang Together—Or Hang Separately
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Consider these European and American binaries. On December 20, 2024, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in Magdeburg, Germany. He killed 6 pedestrians and injured 299 others. Eleven days later, on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, Louisiana, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar smashed his pickup […]
Trolling and Investigating Trump
Listen in with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they talk about deserved and undeserved presidential medals, Biden’s historical legacy, Japanese steel companies in America, how the post-war mentality is out of date, the grooming scandal in England, the British influence on civic culture, Trump’s sentencing, and boutique environmentalism being full of paradoxes.
VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson 2) Carroll, however, had no sufficient evidence to win her suits. She still had no hard facts or reliable witnesses to prove her accusations at all. She had neither reported the rape at the time nor sought medical attention. There were no written records, police or hospital, to substantiate her claim. She […]
VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part One
Victor Davis Hanson The Bragg, James, Smith, and Willis criminal/civil 91 indictments were, as widely agreed, outrageous weaponizations of the Justice system. They will remain Biden’s legacy and a stain upon the entire American concept of equality under the law. Yet, there was something about the E. Jean Carroll civil and criminal suits—especially the methods […]
Nunes: From Truth Social to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Committee
Join Victor Davis Hanson in this interview with Devin Nunes who reviews challenges and solution from a thirty-year career that spanned Congressional representative and chair of the House Intelligence Committee to his role as CEO of Truth Social and soon as chairman of Trump’s Intelligence Advisory Committee.
Life Under Carter and the Immigrant Mind
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine election to the speakership, diplomacy under Jimmy Carter (hostages in Iran, inflation), farming in the 1980s, corporate v. small farming, Islamic immigrant attitudes and psychology, the choice to go back home, and wishy-washy woke companies and the insurance market.
Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Over the decade of Donald Trump’s political career, the left—as exemplified by Democratic politicos, the media, academics, the Washington military hierarchy, and the permeant bureaucratic state—illustrated a level of furor, venom, and near madness unprecedented in modern American history. Yet stranger still about such visceral, indeed lunatic hatred, despite Trump’s […]
The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and Europe Undone by the Left
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson, with cohost Sami Winc, takes a look at the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, a wonder of the ancient world. They also discuss the strangeness of Leftist violence and the damage it has done to Germany and England.
VDH on Education
Listen to VDH discuss how universities need to be reformed to serve the interests of the students, parents and our country. Click either the title or “Continue Reading…” to get to the video.
Terror Attack, Kash, and Homeless
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc to examine the recent attack in New Orleans, the explosion at Trump tower Las Vegas, KSM’s commuted death sentence, WHO’s misguided criticism of Israel, protesting Kash Patel as FBI director, and how California’s homeless problem is still a problem for Gavin Newsom.