A Weekend in the Hanging Gardens and in the Troubling News
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson’s weekend episode with cohost Sami Winc: Trump sues Pulitzer Prize Board over Russian hoax, new leadership for Democrats, Politico and Associated Press paid by USAID, Cooper Union university sued by harassed Jewish students, and Trump executive order barring biological men in women’s sports.
VDH UltraDemocratic Party Hysteria
Victor Davis Hanson discusses the current state of the Democratic Party, highlighting its declining public confidence and failures across various issues. He emphasizes the party’s inability to adapt and the hysteria surrounding figures like Elon Musk, unfairly demonized by Democrats.
Trump First Weeks: Israel, ISIS, and Impeachment
Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc. Netanyahu visited D.C. and Trump entertained many initiatives, USAID funds going to terrorists and corruption, Canada bristles at tariffs, Democrats meltdown, and Al Green (D-TX) calls for impeachment.
Are Trump’s Tariffs Really Tariffs?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries. Both American and foreign critics blasted them variously as either counterproductive and suicidal or unfair, imperialistic, and xenophobic. Certainly, tariffs are widely hated by doctrinaire economists. They complain that tariffs burden consumers with […]
Eeyore Is Dead: Real Hope For America
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss changes need in the FBI and CIA, the Kennedy’s and Caroline’s allegations, Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas and the HHS, recruitments in the military, ending PBS and NPR as hard-Left propagandists, and Chris Cillizza’s and other’s mea culpa on Covid and other lies from the […]
VDH UltraThe Left Goes from Madness to Irrelevance, Part One
Various polls show historical lows of public support for the Democratic Party, ranging from 31 to 41 percent approval. Yet at the same time during a recent Democrat leadership conference, various panelists unanimously claimed that racism and sexism alone accounted for the defeat of Kamala Harris. Do they think, then, that white male Joe Biden […]
VDH UltraTrump’s First Two Weeks: Pardonomania, Part Three
Now we come to Dr. Anthony Fauci. For some 38 years, he ran the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as his private fiefdom. Given the revolving-door tenures of the directors of the larger, grantmaking National Institutes of Health (NIH) during that era, Fauci also had enormous influence over its some $50 billion […]
Return to Normality and Meritocracy
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to examine the status of Venezuela, China, Colombia, and the Middle East in the Trump administration, universities and diplomacy returning to normal, cutting back useless and dangerous DEI programs, Democratic strategists blind, the plane crash in DC, and Ibram X. Kendi’s Boston University center closes.
Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The diversity, equity, and inclusion project, often seen as a major element of the so-called “woke” creed along with green fanaticism, keeps popping up as a possible subtext in a variety of recent tragedies. In the case of the Los Angeles fires, Mayor Karen Bass, who cut the fire department […]
Going to Giza and Cutting Through DC Waste
Join the Saturday episode with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the ancient pyramids in Giza and recent news: Bankman-Fried’s parents want a pardon, Trump re-opens Guantanamo, a retrospective on executive orders and pardons, the hysterical style of interrogation, and David Mamet’s art.
VDH UltraAftermath of Kash Patel: the Many Sources of Schiff’s Anger
Our Ultra subscribers are invited to join Victor Davis Hanson in this short discussion of the many reasons for Adam Schiff’s anger in the recent hearing of Kash Patel for FBI Director.
Plane Crash, Executive Orders, and Kash
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Trump’s early presidency, executive orders, the D.C. plane-helicopter collision, DEI policies, meritocracy, immigration challenges, the fentanyl crisis, Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing, and the left’s response to political apostates.
Mexico—Friend, Enemy, Neutral, or Something Else?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences? Mexico also recently balked at allowing a U.S. transport plane to land, […]
Don’t Look Back: America First and the Dangerous Alternative
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Trump’s America First Manifesto contrasted with Obama, how Mexico thinks DJT is unserious, Greenland’s status, facing China’s Belt and Road Initiative, meritocracy’s comeback, de-DEIing the university, the irony of Biden and mental fitness, and the anniversary of the Alger Hiss conviction.
VDH UltraTrump’s First Two Weeks: Pardonomania, Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Three other Biden pardons stand out: Liz Cheney, Dr. Fauci, and Gen. Milley. Liz Cheney was the Republican minority whip in the House. During Trump’s first term, she voted with his agenda over 90% of the time. She was convinced after January 6 that the buffoonish riot was instead an “insurrection,” that […]
VDH UltraTrump’s First Two Weeks: Was Hegseth Really Less Qualified than Mayorkas for a Cabinet Position?
Victor Davis Hanson So far Republican Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have both voted not to confirm Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary and thereby joined every single Democratic senator to reject his nomination. That rejectionism seems striking when they both voted to confirm in 2021 two of the worst and most leftwing cabinet secretaries […]
Trump Goes to California and Hegseth’s Confirmation
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for a discussion of Pete Hegseth’s nomination fight, the US Naval Academy, Elon’s salute, Trump taking on bureaucracy in California , Karen Bass’s radical past, pardons, and the special consideration of Mike Pompeo.
Trump and His New Frenemies, Abroad and at Home
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness President Trump recently gave a video talk to the World Economic Forum (WEF) assemblage in Davos. He expressed fondness for Europe. He praised many for their attendance—and then tore into the evils of hyperregulation, high taxes, radical environmentalism, and the DEI/ESG commissariat of both the prior Biden administration and indeed […]
Trump, Davos, and the New World Order
On this episode, join Victory Davis Hanson and Sami Winc as they delve into the current political landscape, discussing Trump’s recent video address to Davos and the implications of his remarks. Victor shares insights on the controversial comments made by Bishop Budde regarding Trump and the ongoing debates surrounding immigration and social issues. The discussion […]
Militaries must return to the ancient confidence that it is better to kill more of the aggressors’ population than to have lost some of its own.
Victor Davis Hanson // Mosaic This is a response to What’s Wrong with the Postmodern Military?, originally published in Mosaic in January 2025 Ran Baratz’s sharp critique of Israeli retaliatory action following October 7, coupled with incisive and constructive correctives, is a shared worry outside of Israel. Why, he asks, was the IDF surprised by the attack, why was […]