VDH UltraControversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Eleven
Victor Davis Hanson Kash Patel/FBI Director In sum, Patel’s résumé documents in detail his investigative and intelligence skills in all three branches of government (the courts, the executive branch, and the Congress). The idea that he is disqualified because he had not been in the FBI or law enforcement as an officer is silly. Before […]
VDH UltraControversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Ten
Victor Davis Hanson Kash Patel/FBI Director Andrew McCabe, the interim FBI director who followed James Comey and preceded Christopher Wray, by his own admission repeatedly lied under oath to both the FBI’s Inspection Division as well as to the Office of the Inspector General. Only AG Bill Barr’s wrong decision not to prosecute McCabe saved […]
A New Trumpian World
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss the revolution in Syria, discipline in the military, the arrest of a Boston City Council member, the false consciousness of Obama, pardons for Biden’s family and members of his administration, Trump’s first hundred days, and Japan’s Pacific war in 1941.
Biden’s Paranoid Pardons and Leftist Morality
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Pardoner-in-Chief Joe Biden has now established two precedents in presidential history. First, he “pardoned” his own son Hunter. No prior president has ever tried that shameless act, which is an affront to the entire hallowed notion of “equality under the law.”. Second, he did so in a way that no […]
The Atomic Bomb Controversy and Fixing the Government
Join the weekend show with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: a look at government employee decadence, Musk’s compensation package, Hegseth’s nomination saga and DeSantis’s name floated, and bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII.
VDH UltraControversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Nine
Victor Davis Hanson Kash Patel/FBI Director There are four “controversial” Trump nominees that the Left has gone DefCon1 on, in order to swing an anticipated 3-4 Rhino Republican senators—and thus, block them by a 1-2 vote margin: Kash Patel (FBI), Pete Hegseth (DOD), Tulsi Gabbard (DNI), and RFK, Jr. (HHS). Yet the hits against Kash […]
The Coming Administration
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the nomination of Kash Patel, Hunter’s pardon, and diplomacy from Mar-a-Lago featuring Canada’s Trudeau and Mexico’s Sheinbaum while Biden travels to Angola.
What the Trump Nominees Have Not Done—And Will Not Do
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. Many of Trump’s picks are well outside the usual Washington, DC/New York political, media, and corporate nexus. But that is precisely the point—to insert reformers into a bloated, incompetent, and […]
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 […]