An Interview with Classicist and Military Historian Barry Strauss
Victor Davis Hanson and Barry Strauss discuss his recent book, The War That Made the Roman Empire, and his friendship and experiences with Victor as classicists and military historians. Don’t miss them on the Roman Empire, reshaping the West, and his fascinating thesis.
From Elon Musk’s Twitter to Biden’s Inflation
Listen to Victor and Sami as they talk about Elon Musk, The Democratic Party, and the crisis of rising inflation.
VDH UltraAngry Reader 04-29-22
Victor Davis HansonFrom An Angry Reader: MLK-liberal Victor Davis Hanson admits once again that he facilitated the second-class citizen treatment of his white classics students while helping minorities leap over them. In earlier podcasts he has complained that the Hispanics he helped then turned on him, adopting Spanish surnames and Woke values, as well as […]
Burnout: Leftism Fatigues America
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk over the destructiveness of Fauci’s mask mandate and other Left lies that destroyed people’s lives, the Durham investigation, what our military should really be focused on, and America as La-la land.
Tearing Down the Silicon Valley Wall
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Elon Musk has finally managed to buy Twitter. And the moment he did, the enraged Left flipped out. Abruptly leftists began trashing their favorite electronic communications platform as the domain of the nation’s elite, professional classes. Had they just discovered that they had been racists and privileged users all this time? […]
Who Holds the Cards?
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson discuss with cohost Jack Fowler Musk’s offer for Twitter, Sharpton’s new cynicism, DeSantis v. Disney, Never-Trump-itis, and monetary policy.
VDH UltraAngry Reader 04-27-22
From An Angry Reader: Prof. Hanson, Your idiotic take on the left’s nihilism left me incredibly surprised. A completely new low, even for you. How about you do one on the right’s nihilism? According to you right wing nut jobs: scientists telling us the planet is becoming inhospitable don’t know anything, investing in infrastructure is […]
Remembering the Old Breed. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals What did Mr. Frank Hanson teach us? How to ride mules, donkeys, and horses bareback. How to put a saddle on—and how to ride with it. And the “nevers”: Never leave an animal tied up in the sun. Never leave any animal without a pan of water. […]
Our Spanish Civil War?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness From 1936 to 1939, the civil war in Spain became a European laboratory of new tactics, strategies, logistics, wartime morality, and weapons. Right-wing nationalists under General Francisco Franco finally defeated loyal supporters of an evolutionary socialist republic—but only after much of the Western world had variously weighed in. The cost […]
Living the “Satyricon”
Victor Davis Hanson On the Roman novel by Petronius The Satyricon of Petronius may be more relevant now than at any time in its two-millennium history. It offers rare insight into the Roman-like nature of the cultural, economic, intellectual, and social disruptions within the twenty-first-century United States. Like early imperial Romans of the mid-first century A.D., Americans too […]
Couldn’t, Shouldn’t Be President
On this weekend edition, cohost Sami Winc asks Victor Davis Hanson to talk about historical figures who tried but failed to become president: Aaron Burr, Henry Clay, and William Jennings Bryan. Victor finishes with an excursus on the Democrat’s dilemma in the midterms.
The Turning Tide
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the state and study of history, Putin’s nuclear poker, the border failure, Ron DeSantis’ many fights, and Judge Mizelle’s mask mandate overturn.
How Corporations Replacing Family Farms Changed California | Victor Davis Hanson
With technological advancements, farming is becoming more efficient – delivering more food to more places. But family farmers are shrinking in California. Victor Davis Hanson, historian and farmer explains what is lost in the transition to corporate farming and its impact on our farming communities.
VDH UltraRemembering the Old Breed. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals My paternal grandfather Frank Hanson was drafted in 1917—although he was married and a bit old at 28. And as part of the war effort he had a small six to eight cow dairy I was told. No matter, he was one of the first to drafted […]
How America Became La La Land
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, partly the poet Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters. Nothing seems to be working. And no one in control seems to care. The once secure border of 2020 vanished. Two-million people have […]
The Left from China to California
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss China’s lockdowns and China’s view of Taiwan given the Ukraine war, Project Veritas’ revelations of the Left, California’s 32-hour work week bill, and blackbirds.
VDH UltraRemembering the Old Breed. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals I once talked to the Land Bank officer, a smart though cranky accountant near retirement. He called our farming operation “non-rational,” after he viewed the layout of my grandfather’s 120 acres. My Punjabi neighbor (who begrudgingly admitted that, as one of the first Sikhs to arrive in […]
The Tipping Point
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explain Al Sharpton’s exploits, the Democratic Party’s fix and its moves going forward, and finally Ibram X. Kendi’s racist ideas that lack basis and cause hate crimes.
VDH UltraRemembering the Old Breed. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals I used to think America was divided into two halves: the majority who have never spoken or known those born in the 19th century, and the minority who have. The latter were given a great gift that is imprinted upon them since youth, a glimpse into wisdom […]