Week In Review
Get VDH’s “Week In Review” (Issue 24) It has become grim in the last few weeks in the news as you will hear and read below–and probably already know. Please excuse the hiatus in the newsletter distribution. We had and have much going on with the website. But things are smoothing out. This newsletter won’t allow […]
The Culturalist: The Praetorian Question
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson talk about the politicization of the military in light of the Afghan debacle and the historical precedents — which, perhaps not so oddly, are those of totalitarian governments.
VDH UltraAngry Reader 09-02-2021
From An Angry Reader: Subject: Tribune Editorial Mr. Hanson: You no doubt consider yourself to be an objective journalist, but I suggest that you are little more than a shill for Donald Trump and his sycophants. Your so-called editorial, “There’s a problem in the upper reaches of our military,” is blatantly one-sided; so much so, […]
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Some Mythologies of World War II: Part One:
Did Germany Win the World Wars Before It Started a New One? “World War II,” or the Anglicized “Second World War,” began formally on September 1, 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. It ended officially with the surrender of the Japanese on September 2, 1945 on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo […]
Is Our Military Woke, Broke or Both?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The fall of Kabul is not the end, as Joe Biden seems to think, of the Afghanistan nightmare. It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies […]
The Classicist: Gruesome Newsom and Drossy Joe
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler talk about the California recall, his new book “The Dying Citizen” coming out October 5, and Biden’s drossy touch.
The Traditionalist: The Therapeutic Screw-Up
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Listen in as VDH and Jack Fowler discuss Afghanistan and coming to terms with the worst military defeat in recent history. What should top military brass do and what will the Taliban do?
VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part Four
An Afghanistan Postscript There are real foreign policy consequences for a society adrift from its origins and foundational principles of citizenship. So, it was only a matter of time until the US had a rendezvous with tragedy abroad given the unhinged assumptions it was operating upon at home. I list a few symptoms, in no […]
The Vince Coglianese Show – Dr Victor Davis Hanson – 08.19.21
Vince Coglianese speaks with Dr Victor Davis Hanson, Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Stanford.
President Biden’s a Colossal Failure
From the Afghanistan crisis, the border disaster, his foreign policy fiasco, and inflation; does it seem like everything that Joe Biden touches turns to dross? Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Victor Davis Hanson, joins Dana to evaluate the Afghanistan disaster, and Hanson explains how everything Joe Biden has touched since becoming President has turned to dross.
Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Joe Biden’s scripted or no-questions press conferences, and the clean-up afterward by Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Jen Psaki, have been some of the most misleading episodes in modern presidential history—mostly in what was not said rather than was exaggerated, warped, and misrepresented. Biden as Commander-in-Chief The more Joe […]
VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson // Historian’s Corner All of these ad hoc challenges share a common symptom, the steady erosion of the chief tenets of citizenship. The diminution of the middle class, the porousness of our borders, and the dangerous idea that race is incidental not essential to who we are, occur almost organically. It is […]
The Classicist: Let Us Have Done With You
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Newsom’s recall, Larry Elder’s odds, the cultural revolution and the elite, and “Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation.” There is a short tribute to Donald Kagan who recently passed away at the end.
Matters Of Policy & Politics: America After The Trump Presidency
Donald Trump’s gone (from office) but not forgotten as many of the elements that contributed to his political ascent – immigration, overseas entanglements, cultural divide – are as potent as ever. Victor Davis Hanson, the Hoover Institution’s Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, discusses Trump’s presence in the political landscape and the prospects of “Trumpism” […]
Does America Still Work
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness For nearly two years, Americans have engaged in a great woke experiment of cannibalizing themselves. American civilization has invested massive labor, capital, and time in an effort constantly to flagellate itself for not being perfect. Yet neither America’s resilience nor its resources are infinite. We are now beginning to […]
VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson // Historian’s Corner Yet rarely do we connect America’s malaise, its divisions, and its obsessions with national decline, to a loss of citizenship—the original glue that once held together the American experiment. Perhaps we assume that a “citizen” is a natural concept that arose organically with the ascent of civilization itself. It […]
The Traditionalist: The Mess of Getting Out
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the exit from Afghanistan, the regional implications and obligations of the US. Plus, the investigation of the January 6 Capitol riot shows no evidence of insurrection..
VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part One
Victor Davis Hanson // Historian’s Corner In its 245th year has America become dangerously divided or just chaotic—or both? More Americans are currently concluding that their country either does not work as it once did, or works all too well in ways that are frightening. In a recent five-day period in California’s Central Valley, where I […]