Are the Years of Madness Ending?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Never in U.S. history has a president-elect been welcomed as the real president before his January 20 inauguration. And never has the incumbent president so willingly surrendered his last two months in office and all but abdicated—to the relief of his nation and the rest of the world. One reason […]
The Coming of New Eras: Trump Shines and WWII Unwinds
Join the Saturday edition with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the conferences ending WWII, Trump presidency already begun, anti-Semitism in our universities, Wray steps down, West Point joins smear campaign against Hegseth, and Israel takes out weapons depots in Syria.
VDH UltraControversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Twelve
Victor Davis Hanson The Prerequisites for Trump Nominees So, if the traditional criteria for high government positions do not much matter to Trump, what does? There are many requirements for a Trump nominee—loyalty, competence, energy, communication skills, and in some cases prior business success. But one plus is clear and prior demonization by the very […]
The Verdict and the Conflict
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for the Friday news roundup: Daniel Penny verdict, BLM New York founder, the fall of Assad in Syria, and the Liz Cheney files.
The Evaporation of the Obama Mystique
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years. As such he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American […]
The Daniel Penny Controversy and the Coming End of Nihilism
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Jack Fowler delve into the controversial legal case of Daniel Penny, the complexities of New York City’s political landscape, and the challenges facing modern American society. Victor provides his insights on topics ranging from the justice system to urban governance, offering a critical perspective on contemporary issues.
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 […]