Ripples of Kabul
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties evaporated in a few hours in the encirclement of Kabul. Enlistees apparently calculated that their own meager chances with the premodern Taliban were still better than fighting as a dependency of the postmodern […]
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation in Just a Few Months
Part Three: Steps 6-8. VI. Trash the Productive Class Why are frackers considered not just polluters, but near criminal enemies of the planet? Thanks to them, abundant natural gas has reduced US carbon footprints in a manner that exceeds those nations in the Paris Climate Accord. Thanks to them, the US has no strategic interests […]
The Traditionalist: Investigations of John Solomon
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Join Victor Davis Hanson as he interviews investigative reporter John Solomon on the investigations of FBI misconduct, Hunter Biden’s computers, the Clinton uranium deal, and the whistleblower plus Vindman and more. It’s an exhaustive conversation. Listen in.
Are We in a Revolution and Don’t Even Know It?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Institutions are being absorbed not just by the woke apparat, but by an array of ideologies that seeks to destroy them. The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of exempted riots, the election year, and the […]
VDH UltraOur Afghan Agonies
Victor Davis Hanson // The Blade of Perseus Joe Biden could easily have stayed quiet about his intentions in Afghanistan—or at least leave the enemy in some doubt. He might have maintained US air facilities to support Afghan forces, and kept the major cities secure as they were between 2017-20 under Trump, who himself […]
Radio Free Hillsdale: VDH, Coupland and Swineheart
Scot Bertram talks with Victor Davis Hanson about the re-release of his book MEXIFORNIA and the current state of our southern border. Dan Coupland takes a dive into the children’s classic TREASURE ISLAND. And Anthony Swinehart shares with us his discovery of a new species of hickory tree.
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation in Just a Few Months
Part Two: Steps 4-5 IV. Ruin the Currency The work of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of economists, and the pragmatic tough policies of Paul Volker broke modern American inflation 40 years ago. We know what causes it and why—printing money in lieu of commensurate increases in population, productivity and national wealth for short-term […]
The Culturalist: The Deep State
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Join Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc for thoughts initially on the “deep” airlines but mostly on the deep state. Are there answers for the inertia and crime?
American Armageddon
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago. The rage at the current status quo this time is not just fueled by conservatives. For the first time […]
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation in Just a Few Months
Part I: Steps 1-3 I. Destroy the Law Joe Biden has simply destroyed federal immigration law. He broke his oath to execute faithfully our statutes by allowing literally hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated, untested, and illegally entering foreign nationals to storm the southern border. By fiat, Biden simply erased away any demarcation between Texas and […]
VDH on the Ingram Angle
Victor Davis Hanson speaks with Laura Ingram about a new video of Hunter Biden speaking candidly to his prostitute friend. Click here to view the video
The Traditionalist: Squatters, Larry Elder, Iran, et al.
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the rent moratorium, masking madness, Edler’s run for governor, the war on DeSantis, and Victor’s latest issue of “Strategika” on Iran.
The Great Leftist Bully Boy Hope
The refined and moral Left places itself on a pedestal, above the fray—and as such it has a natural attraction to those in its midst who do not. Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness By any empirical measure, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proven utterly disingenuous, and far more so than average politicians. Unlike […]
VDH UltraEeyore’s Cabinet: Trumpistics
Victor Davis Hanson // VDH’s Blade of Perseus Part Two: The Phoenix Trump? August is not January. In politics even a week is a lifetime. Mirabile dictu, Trump’s banishment from social media, means far less of his scattergun tweeting. His memos were rarer, his thoughts better composed. Although the media monopolized the public image of Trump, […]
How Republics collapse. Victor Davis Hanson with Sebastian Gorka on AMERICA First
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VDH UltraEeyore’s Cabinet: Trumpistics
Victor Davis Hanson // VDH’s Blade of Perseus Part One: Trump, RIP? In January-February 2021, Trump’s future was problematic. He was kicked off social media. And without his accustomed megaphones, Trump for the first time in years was unable to reach supporters and the public at large. Thus, the hate-Trump media filled the void and […]
‘Wokeness’ starting to ‘affect fabric of US’: Victor Davis Hanson
VDH talks to Stuart Varney on the Fox Business channel about the cultural impact of woke on our culture. It is closing in on its advocates as Americans with many other troubles tire of its hypocrisy.
Vaccination Weaponization
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness It was always going to be Herculean to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million, across a vast continent—in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news. Some minorities understandably harbored distrust of prior government vaccination programs. Nearly 40 million foreign residents in America are […]
The Classicist: The Three C’s and More
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Cuomo allegations, California recall, and real courage. They end with a discussion of woke and how it compromises quality for airline industries, US military and Hollywood et al.
Strategika #74: The Prospects of a New Iran Deal
Iran’s Nuclear Program Please read a new essay by my colleague, Peter R. Mansoor in Strategika. The Biden administration came into office with the hope of reentering the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—the nuclear deal with Iran—and thereby reduce tensions in the Middle East, an area of the world to which it would rather […]