VDH UltraMore Thoughts on the 2020 Revolution
Here we are in the closing months of 2021, experiencing the most disastrous presidency since that of James Buchanan. Do we even remember life before COVID-19, when the Jacobinism of the Left was so looney, so venomous that its very contradictions and toxicity once upon a long time ago helped to keep it bay? Then […]
Who Eventually Won the Cold War
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Pause for a minute to recall the recent past: Did the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff unlawfully intervene in the chain of command to reroute decisions of nuclear weapon readiness through himself? Did he really contact his Chinese Communist counterpart to promise him that China would be warned of […]
VDH’s Week In Review
Week In Review Link Hello Readers, with so much material out about VDH’s The Dying Citizen, this is not an exhaustive list. It is enough for whiling away Sunday afternoon. I put the “VDH Ultra” material after his podcasts and before American Greatness, video and podcast interviews, articles by VDH and others about the new […]
In Defense of Citizenship
Daniel J. Mahoney National Review It is hard to dispute the claim that the United States is a political and social order in the midst of an immense crisis. The old political consensus in defense of free speech, especially political speech, has been shattered. The woke aim to “cancel” their opponents and to erase them […]
The Culturalist: Victory and Complexity
Join Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc in this examination of the accomplishments of France’s George Clemenceau and the cultural significance of Sophocles’ “Antigone.”
Victor Davis Hanson on the Megyn Kelly Show
Victor Davis Hanson talks at about minute 17:15 of the show to Megyn Kelly about his new book The Dying Citizen.
The Culturalist: Victory and Complexity
Join Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc in this examination of the accomplishments of France’s George Clemenceau and the cultural significance of Sophocles’ “Antigone.”
Americans Fight for Their Ancient Rights As Left Tries to Kill Citizenship
Victor Davis Hanson The Federalist How did our southern border simply vanish — in complete nullification of all federal immigration laws? Since when did our unelected leaders — Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, James Comey and Andrew McCabe, […]
The Culturalist: China Rising
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc on the ubiquitous presence of China on the world stage and in the US itself. What do we do with this octopus nation?
The Classicist: Squeezing the Lemon
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Jack Fowler about blue state/red state disparity, 2020 rioters who got what they wanted and all the chaos too, the January 6 Commission, the Steele interview, and California’s ban on small engines.
VDH UltraTribalism Meets the Plague and Beyond
Tribalism—and the fear to speak out against such racial, ethnic, or religious chauvinism—can at times prove deadly. During the late 2019 geneses of the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government initially suppressed all critical information about the virus’s severity. It destroyed key evidence of its likely birth, by insisting the virus first appeared in an open […]
The Ignoble Lie
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In a controversial passage in Plato’s Republic, Socrates introduced the idea of the “noble lie” (“gennaios pseudos”). A majestic fiction, he says, could sometimes serve society by persuading uninformed citizens of something good for them. Ever since, many prevaricators have used the excuse that they lied for the common good. Take Dr. […]
Point of View: With Guest Victor Davis Hanson
Kerby welcomes journalist Victor Davis Hanson. They will talk about Victor’s newest book – just released – The Dying Citizen.
VDH UltraRemembering Globalism and the Virus
Victor Davis HansonHistorian’s Corner “Chinese investment in the United States helps support jobs across our country. We partner to address global challenges, whether it’s promoting nuclear security, combating piracy off the Horn of Africa, encouraging development and reconciliation in Afghanistan, and helping to end the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. …So, greater prosperity and greater […]
Victor Davis Hanson: One man’s anarchy is another’s road to justice
Victor Davis Hanson // Tribune Content Agency Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan — the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon […]
VDH UltraRemembering the Early Virus and the Wages of Tribalism
How did China become so sophisticated in its messaging to the Western world? Why was it so shameless in accusing the U.S. of the very sort of racism that it routinely had institutionalized? Apart from crass propaganda and the projectionist tactic of fobbing its own culpability for the pandemic onto the United States, China intuitively […]
The Traditionalist: Push Back
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler in this remembrance of Colin Powell, assessment of Stanley McChrystal’s generalship, thoughts on Dave Chappelle and Netflix CEO, and examination of Virginia school boards and politics.
Ground Zero of Woke
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Many of our once revered and most hallowed institutions are failing us. To mention only the most significant ones: our top-ranking military echelon, the leadership of our federal investigatory and intelligence agencies, the government medical establishment—and of course the universities. For too long American higher education’s reputation of global academic […]
The Deep State and the Great Reset
For this special One-on-One interview, Sebastian talks to acclaimed author and historian Victor Davis Hanson about military strategy, the roots of the Deep State, and more