VDH UltraThe Thinning Veneer of a Thin Civilization. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Corner Was the idea of zero-interest rates, printing money, running up multi-trillion-dollar deficits, and paying millions not to work—to create prosperity and to excise that evil, the monetary seriousness of the ghost of Milton Friedman? Did Biden believe his inflation would make all of us kings, or was it that he […]
Why Free Speech Is So Costly to Republicans
Victor Davis Hanson and host Jack Fowler mull over topics like the recent shoot out at the border, the protest at Yale Law School, America’s Free Speech problem, the beauty of tractors, and the left controlling academia.
VDH UltraBidenism Grows Toxic. Part One
Victor Davis HansonEeyore’s Corner Once affluent and leisured societies achieve postmodern complacency, watch out! Survival leads to surfeit that results in utopianism that ends in a reversion to tribalism, anarchy, and chaos—and a return to the very primitivism from which a society once advanced. So the Greeks thought civilizations aged like people, through muscular adolescence, […]
The mythologies of Black Lives Matter
Victor Davis HansonThe New Criterion On the development of the activist movement Polls taken in November 2021 showed a sharp drop in the popularity of the Black Lives Matter movement that had once peaked in June 2020 at over 50 percent public approval. The recent liberal Civiqs survey, commissioned by the hard-Left website Daily Kos, […]
Conspirators in Their Own Words
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For the last five years, the Left—defined as the fusion of the mainstream media, Silicon Valley, the radical new Democratic Party, and the vestigial Hillary Clinton machine—has crafted all sorts of conspiracies to destroy their perceived conservative enemies. Their method has focused on one major projection: alleging conspiracy on the […]
Saturday Serendipity
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the difference between Greek and Latin languages, the history of aircraft carriers in the world, and the different invasions of Russia.
From Ukraine to Actium
In the Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about the war in Ukraine, Jussie Smollett, Oil Prices and the Battle of Actium.
Three Gnomes and a Garden without Treasures
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Biden, Harris, Smollett, the polls and policies. Polls show Americans waking up to the Left.
VDH UltraWhen a Tiger Breaks Free. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet NATO/Berlin NATO fed and petted the Putin tiger too. Germany fancied itself as a sort of NATO point of resistance to the U.S. Its public polls anti-American. Its politicians are culturally disdainful of America. Merkel’s reign ended in disaster, as she destroyed any chance of German energy independence from Russia […]
VDH on the Megyn Kelly Show
Megyn Kelly is joined by the Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson to talk about John Kerry’s tone-deaf focus on green activism, Biden’s misguided push for green energy and how it empowers Putin, the morality and religion of green activism, elite snobbery on inflation and gas prices, how civilizations survive, America’s obsession with race.
VDH UltraWhen a Tiger Breaks Free. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Putin, of course, is the guilty party for the ongoing destruction in Ukraine—in the manner that similar raptors like Hitler and Stalin caused the 1939 Poland catastrophe or China swallowed Hong Kong. We can talk all we want about British and French appeasement, American isolation, and Russian collusion that certainly […]
Confronting the Left
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Project Veritas’s new sting, Ron DeSantis’s new law, how the left abandoned appeasement of Putin, the damage done by Biden’s geopolitics, and the polls on patriotism.
VDH UltraRemembering Tractors as Animals. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals In March if it had rained some, or a first irrigation had not dried out, and one tried to get in the vineyard and disc too early, he often got stuck. And then things got interesting…. If you were mired in the middle of a quarter-mile-long, 12-foot-wide […]
Water or How to Survive
The Weekend Edition is a walk through water projects from Ancient Greece and Rome to the modern crisis in California. Everyone should listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk with cohost Sami Winc on water and water rights, but especially Californians.
War and Culture Conflict
On the Friday News Roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about the state of war in Ukraine, Generation Z, civil disobedience, and the Jan. 6 Select Committee bringing criminal charges against Trump.
VDH UltraRemembering Tractors as Animals. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals When growing up, not all our pets and wild animal encounters were live. I remember all the tractors on the farm. At six, I used to go into the old horse shed just to stare at and sit on them. Many were named as if they were […]
Classics, Myth, Inflation and Disease
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discussion the importance of a classical education, BLM mythologies, prioritizing military spending, and Covid19 rhetoric dying faster than the disease.
The Green Immoralists
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Thousands are dying from Russian missiles and bombs in the suburbs of Ukraine. In response, the Biden Administration’s climate-change envoy, multimillionaire and private-jet owning John Kerry, laments that Russian president Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner in reducing global warming. “You’re going to lose people’s focus,” Kerry frets. […]
VDH UltraFrom Appeasement to No-Fly-Zones in a Blink of an Eye—Or Why the Left is Furiously Flipping and Flopping—Part Two.
Victor Davis HansonHistorian’s Corner C. Analysis. So why is the Left Saber-rattling? There are four choices, and they are not mutually exclusive: The Left knows that Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden serially appeased Putin. They privately accept that his invasion of Ukraine is a manifestation of their own efforts that weakened U.S. deterrence that […]