The Fix-It List: Education, China, and Ukraine
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the money spent on education and its empty promises, how China’s Belt and Road Initiative is going, the U.S. crossing a line in the Ukraine, Biden’s anti-colonialist book, and Bill Clinton’s regrets.
VDH UltraControversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Eight
Víctor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense A final area of criticism is the lie that Hegseth is an intolerant Christian zealot or racist white supremacist. No one who has worked for him has lodged such complaints; they come instead from a soldier or two who did not like his tattoos. Nor did those who […]
VDH UltraControversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Seven
Victor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense Hegseth is/was also the target of sexual harassment/assault accusations first launched seven years ago. But here too there are critical details left out by the Left. Sexual crime investigators of the Monterey Police Department in ultra-liberal California found no such assault, and after exhaustive investigations never charged Hegseth […]
Trump Diplomacy and California Energy Crisis
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Trump’s surrogate administration holding court, Trump’s middle-class coalition, the end of diversity politics, Hegseth’s mom’s email, our penitent socialist class’s California-ugly policy, how the Left rendered catatonic by the election results, and things that worry VDH.
Yes, Mexico Knows Exactly What It Is Doing
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness President-elect Donald Trump recently had a “talk” with newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum about the millions who have crossed through Mexico to enter the U.S. illegally. Afterwards, Trump reported that their conversation went well, and supposedly both had agreed to secure the U.S. border. But given long-standing, de facto […]
Bombers, Bombing, and Bombed
Join the weekend episode in which Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about U.S. bombing campaigns in World War II, drones over the Pentagon, Gavin wants to get Elon, Tom Homan on Denver’s mayor, Kamala’s internal polls, and Kamala’s post-campaign speech.
VDH UltraControversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Six
Victor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense 2. Hegseth would likely take a hard look at the 1-4 star general/admiral class and conclude: a) there are in general too many generals and admirals; b) there are far too many incompetent and politicized generals and admirals who have a demonstrable record of failure, especially during the […]
The Rising Tide: Blue State Blues and Trump’s New Wave
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this Friday news roundup: Israel-Lebanon cease-fire, Trump tariffs, the blue-state model, Hollywood leaving, Stanford censure, DEI dying, and Trump appointments.
Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility. Gifting to most universities has been […]
Israel, Mexico, Europe and Giving Thanks in America
In this Thanksgiving episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the International Criminal Court’s unwarranted arrest warrant for Netanyahu, coming troubles in Mexico, anti-Semitism in Europe, the case for Trump revisited, MSNBC addresses the cultural shift, the legacy of William F. Buckley, and things to appreciate on Thanksgiving.
VDH UltraControversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Five
Víctor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense What are the pros and cons of the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Defense Secretary (in the context of the accepted norms for DOD secretary nominees in the past)? Pros On the plus side, Hegseth is a combat veteran of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After […]
VDH UltraA Few of Trump’s Controversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson So, what were the standards that Gaetz did not meet? Or rather were current critics prior critics when there was questionable conduct at the DOJ? Do we remember Obama’s AGs Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch? Eric Holder flagrantly described his supposedly autonomous relationship with President Obama obsequiously as Obama’s “wingman.” He refused […]
America Just Escaped Revolutionary Destruction
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for the latest on illegal immigration and the Hispanic constituency, tone-deaf sanctuary-city policy in LA, how the election pulled the US back from revolutionary destruction, revolutionary justice and Daniel Penny, the Jaguar ad, the weakness of the case against Pete Hegseth, and Trump is the counter-revolutionary.
The Immorality of Illegal Immigration
Donald Trump will not be president for almost another two months. Yet Democrat politicians, both federal and local, vie to be the most strident in denouncing his plans to begin deporting millions of foreign nationals who, over the last four years, have entered the U.S. illegally. Trump pledges to focus initially only on the 400,000 […]
The Battles for the Philippines and Leftism Fatigue
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson examines the battles fought over the Philippines in WWII, and, in the news, more Trump nominations, Alvin Bragg’s cases, and Jussie Smollett is let off by the Illinois Supreme Court.
VDH UltraA Few of Trump’s Controversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson Matt Gaetz/Attorney General Matt Gaetz has been the most controversial of the Trump nominees so far. The odds were that he would not be confirmed—and he was not by default after withdrawing his nomination in anticipation of hostile confirmation questioning and attacks. Gaetz certainly is a MAGA loyalist, a former target of […]
War in Russia, a Murderer in Prison, and Needed Change in D.C.
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the currently escalating Ukraine-Russia War, Laken Riley’s attacker sentenced and Trump’s immigration plans, the Left’s fiery response to Trump nominations Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard, and shaming the Congress to protect the DEI agenda.
The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016. The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential. Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. […]
A Study in Contrasts: Trump Sanity, Left Insanity, and Losing Cred Fast
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the La Leche League and “chest-feeding,” transexuals not being a third sex, child-endangerment, Trump’s warrior board and university reform, and Whoop-tee-do Whoopi trying to take out a small family-owned bakery with false accusations.
VDH UltraA Few of Trump’s Controversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson James Clapper has admitted to lying to Congress about the illegal activities of the National Security Agency under his direction. Clapper used his titles and tenures to revolve in and out of lucrative billets in private security agencies prior to and following his federal position—raising the ire of watchdogs that alleged he […]