The Left Knows Leftism Doesn’t Work
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Do not expect the radical left to survey the wreckage of socialism and communism in history and accept that statism impoverishes people and erodes their freedoms. There will never be admissions by our elite that progressivism exists mainly for the acquisition of power by the utopian and virtue-signaling few, who […]
The End of Thebes: Alexander’s Vengeance
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson discuss with cohost Sami Winc the fate of Thebes in the 4th century BC at the hands of Alexander the Great.
VDH UltraThe End of Everything in the Here and Now? Part Six: Is Civilizational Erasure Possible Today? 2024
Victor Davis Hanson We saw on October 7 unprovoked mass slaughter, rape, torture, mutilation, decapitation, and hostage-taking, and agreed that human nature has not changed much since the era of the Aztecs or Macedonians. But the delivery systems of mass death—nuclear, chemical, biological, and the use of artificial intelligence—have evolved far beyond the muscular strength […]
Bleeding Civilization: from Illegal Immigration to Debt-Making Policy
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc on the Friday news round up: Biden’s executive order on the border, incendiary bombs on Israel, California assembly bill to employ illegal immigrants, pro-Palestinian students storm Stanford president’s office, and the emptiness of a Kamala interview.
@VDHanson Does the Left Really Want a Land of Lawfare?
Does the Left Really Want a Land of Lawfare? Republicans are debating whether for the sake of the country to play the adult role, and take the high road, eschewing tit-for-tat lawfare. Or should they reciprocate in kind to restore deterrence and remind the Left to stop it,… — Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) June 4, […]
The Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do with the Prosecutions of Trump
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The five criminal and civil prosecutions of Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them. But Joe Biden has long let it be known that he was frustrated with his own Department of Justice’s federal prosecutors for […]
The Justice Challenge: Trump v. Hunter
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the recent news on the Trump verdict, the opening days of Hunter Biden’s trial, Caitlyn Clark fending off opposing players, and the streets of Paris.
VDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part Five: The Annihilation of the Aztecs, 1521.
Victor Davis Hanson Hernán Cortés was an unlikely conqueror of civilizations. He was born into a middle-class Castilian family, leaving Spain just 12 years after the European discovery of the New World. At 18, the young Cortés planned to get rich, acquire estates, and thus advance in the New World’s Spanish elite hierarchy—in a way […]
VDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part Four: The End of the Byzantines, 1453
Victor Davis Hanson Despite bouts of destructive bubonic plague, the pillaging of the city by fellow Christians from Western Europe during the aborted Fourth Crusade (1204), and a tidal wave of Turkish invasions that finally under the Ottoman Sultanate had surrounded Constantinople, the eternal city of 1453 and its vestigial outlands still held out. Under […]
War Gaming Operation Downfall: What If We Invaded Japan? And other listener questions
In this special episode of the Victor Davis Hanson Show, Victor and host Jack Fowler delve into listener questions. The episode kicks off with an in-depth discussion on Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan during World War II, and the alternatives considered, including the use of atomic bombs. Victor provides a detailed analysis of […]
The Destructive Generation—Proving America’s Weakest Link
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Governor Ronald Reagan, in his 1967 inaugural address, famously remarked, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction.” Reagan today might have expanded on his theme by declaring that civilization itself is both fragile and can lost by a generation that recklessly spends […]
The End of Carthage: Things We Can Learn
Don’t miss Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the second chapter in VDH’s new best-selling book, “The End of Everything”: the destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War (149-146 BC) and its relevance to the present.
VDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part Three: The Deletion of Carthage, 146 BC
Victor Davis Hanson Carthage had fought and lost two Punic wars against Rome (264 BC–201 BC). After the end of the Hannibalic War (201), the city lost almost all its empire, many of its North African alliances, and was forced to pay Rome huge fines. Yet a mere half-century later, by 149 BC, Carthage was […]
Our Revolutionary Times
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention. What follows is the exposure and repudiation of long-existing but previously covered-up pathologies. Events like the destruction of the southern border over the last three years, the October 7 massacre and ensuing Gaza war, the campus […]
Makers and Breakers: California, Churchill, and Biden’s Buddies
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they talk about California living and leaving, a world and war without Churchill, and in absentia due to dementia, who is running the Biden administration.
VDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part Two: Target Thebes, 335 BC
Victor Davis Hanson As the power of the fifth-century Athenian and fourth-century Spartan empires declined, and after the stunning defeat of Sparta at the battle of Leuctra (371 BC), the most ancient of the Greek city-states Thebes proved re-ascendant. And for more than a decade under the twin leadership of Epaminondas and Pelopidas, it dominated […]
VDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part One: Why Are Civilizations Erased?
Victor Davis Hanson I wrote The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation out of curiosity as to why on rare conditions wars don’t just end in the capitulation of the defeated, the occupation or annexation of its homelands, or the victors’ demands to pay reparations or fines.* Rather, they sometimes cease only with […]
California Governors and Middle East Politics
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Islamic states past and present, Israel as an American ally, and the Allied abolition of Prussia post-WWII.
Fear Trump—or Bust?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As Trump continues to show leads in critical swing states, as various lawfare-inspired cases against him seem to the public to be more persecutions than prosecutions, and as Joe Biden appears daily more incoherent and lost, the left on spec has resorted to warning the nation about all the supposedly […]