Standing Up to Putin and Other Analysis
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Jack Fowler about Conservative perspectives on the war in Ukraine, Russians cancelled for lack of vocal criticism of Putin, how the war benefits the Left (or not), and thoughts on the State of the Union and Bill Barr’s new memoire.
Vladimir Putin: The Latest of the Failed Irredentists
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Irredentism—the romance of reclaiming “unredeemed” old lands—is a symptom of messianic presidents and premiers, and national paranoia and insecurity. Leaders demagogue about the recovery of ancient territories that previously had weakened the nation’s imperial grandeur and power. Supposedly long-scattered and oppressed peoples with common linguistic, religious, and cultural affinities are […]
VDH Talks With Hannity on Ukraine Crisis
Hoover Institution fellow and historian Victor Davis Hanson talked about the Russia-Ukraine crisis, a shifting geopolitical landscape, the decline of culture in the West on Wednesday with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Tanks in Ukraine and in History
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about tanks in Putin’s war with Ukraine and then examines the history of tanks.
Looking into the Cauldron
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about the State of the Union address, Ukraine, China, Iran and Germany.
VDH UltraConservatives and Ukraine—Four Views, Both Right and Wrong: Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Alternative View #4: Paleo Putin Wait a minute. Putin is a dictator, yes, but have we recently cut off all dictators? Xi? The Saudi royal family? Castro, Inc.? The ayatollahs? At least Putin does not desecrate Christianity. At least Russians do not make apologies for their own country. Who fought […]
What the Greeks and Romans Can Teach Us
A surprising aspect of human nature during warfare is its immutability over the millennia, as classical scholar and Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson shows in our discussion about the Peloponnesian War and the Roman Empire. He illustrates what 5th Century BC Greece can tell us about invasions, charismatic leadership, national honor and courageous resistance […]
The OTUS Among Us
POTUS, VPOTUS, and nominee for SCOTUS — Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler look at the record and at other things that reveal America asunder. Who is responsible?
The Biden Inflation Octopus
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Democrats will suffer historic losses in the November midterms. This disaster for their party will come about not just because of the Afghanistan debacle, an appeased Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the destruction of the southern border, the supply chain mess, or their support for critical race theory demagoguery. […]
VDH UltraConservatives and Ukraine—Four Views, Both Right and Wrong: Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner There are four schools of conservative thought in Ukraine. Alternative View #1: Realist Deterrence Putin is a thug—period. Putin violated global norms. Putin is getting thousands killed for some stupid irredentist dream of restoring a lost Russian Empire. So, he must be deterred. He must be stopped. He must be […]
Strength and Deterrence
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine the war in Ukraine, from the inspiring Ukrainian war effort to Volodymyr Zelensky’s record, Putin’s choices, and the Left’s agenda which is the antithesis of strength and deterrence.
Biden Is the Most Dangerous Radical
Victor Davis Hanson, a remarkably prescient and accurate historian, gives his candid assessment of President Biden’s first year in power.
VDH UltraHow Putin Invaded. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Have We Learned Anything from Ukraine? 6) We have a 79-year-old impaired president and a vice president who is cogent but scarier. The former was nominated by the Democrats’ late primary season terror of woke candidates, the latter was the woke payoff for Biden’s nomination. Both nonentities likely convince Putin […]
The Crowded Road to Kyiv
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One of the oddest commentaries about the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the boilerplate reaction that “borders can’t change in modern Europe” or “this does not happen in the 21st century.” But why in the world should the 21st century be exempt from the pathologies of the past 20 centuries? […]
Thucydides Our Historian
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk with Sami Winc about Thucydides and moments in his History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’ funeral oration, the revolt of Mitylene, civil war at Corcira, and the Melian Dialogue.
From Ukraine to California
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Ukraine crisis and California’s crises. They finish with J.K. Rowlings and the culture wars.
VDH UltraHow Putin Invaded. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Have We Learned Anything from Ukraine? We know why Putin invaded Ukraine: he wants to restore the borders of the old Soviet Union and with them the power and glory of a lost empire that had 100 million more people and nearly 30 percent more of the territory than Russia […]
Domestic Dystopia
Transgender athletes, China connections, San Francisco recall, African-American unemployment: listen to analysis by Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler. They finish with polls showing the effects of Left dystopia on the electorate.
Putin’s Predictabilities
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For all his caginess, dissimulation, and opportunism, Vladimir Putin is more or less predictable. Putin’s aims? The Russian president’s two-decade dilemma has been how to reclaim the prestige and power of the former Soviet Union—but with only 75 percent of his country’s former territory and 140 million fewer people. When […]
VDH UltraThe Most Dangerous People in America. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet So the bicoastal classes—the West that looks out on Asia, the East that is tied to the EU—feel their brains, their cattle-brand stamped degrees, their money, and their tastes have advanced them to Eloi status. Some are certainly brilliant and explain much of the current American GDP. That said, many […]