We Are in Need of Renaissance People
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The songwriter, actor, country/western singer, musician, U.S. Army veteran, helicopter pilot, accomplished rugby player and boxer, Rhodes scholar, Pomona College and University of Oxford degreed, and summa cum laude literature graduate, Kris Kristofferson, recently died at 88. Americans may have known him best for writing smash hits like “Me and […]
VDH Has a Conversation with Filmmaker Michael L. Pack
Victor Davis Hanson interviews Michael Pack, documentary filmmaker, about his new documentary with WSJ Opinion Section — a new series to look at stories that have been overlooked by the mainstream media. His new series is Get the Jew: the Crown Heights Riots Revisited named for the 1991 riots.
October Surprise and the Strange Defeat
Join the weekend edition with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: the defeat of France 1940, October surprises, more on Israel and the Longshoremen, polls in Pennsylvania, and Christopher Rufo investigates the reach of DEI damage in our culture.
VDH UltraWorld War II. Churchill, Warmonger? Part Eight
And they were wiping these places out as gigantic, scaled terrorist attacks, the greatest scale of terrorist attacks you’ve ever seen in world history. Why would he do that? Because it was the only means that they had to continue fighting. At the time, they didn’t have the ability to reinvade Europe. And so, he […]
Three Crises and Other News
In the Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Hurricane Helene, Israel, the Longshoreman strike and other stories in the news this week.
How To Blow Up the Middle East War in Five Easy Steps
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war. So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on September 29, 2023—and just eight days before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis—Biden’s […]
The Shame of the Left’s Business: Politicized and Victimized
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israel, police deaths, politicized instructors and left businesses, Amy Wax stands, victimization is the refuge of all scoundrels, keeping illegals on the voter rolls, and John Kerry claims Democrats need to win so they can censor.
VDH UltraWorld War II. Churchill, the Terrorist? Part Seven
Victor Davis Hanson As far as terrorism and terrorist bombing, who exactly started the first systematic campaign of terror bombing? It was the Luftwaffe. Without provocation, German planes first indiscriminately bombed civilian targets in Poland to instill panic, terror, and mass death (150,000–200,000 Polish civilians killed in the actual invasion, perhaps the majority of them […]
VDH UltraWorld War II. Churchill, the Terrorist? Part Six
Victor Davis Hanson He says, let’s not do this. We can’t do this. And of course, a year goes by, 1940 comes around, and they’re still at war. And so, he launches his invasion to the west, takes over France, and takes over western and northern Europe. Once that’s done, and the British have escaped […]
From Nasrallah to Criminal Illegals
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler on the death of Hezbollah’s leader, Orwellian lies about the border exposed, Putin snared by explaining battlefield casualties, Harris’s numbers bleeding, protecting Trump rallies and secret services, and the numbers on criminal illegals.
Our Ukrainian War Narrative—Paradoxes, Obsessions, and Disconnects
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness About half of America sympathizes with Ukraine’s plight and wishes to arm it. After all, Kyiv was attacked preemptively by Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, in an effort to decapitate its government and turn the country into a Russian satellite, perhaps similar to the status of a Belarus or […]
Adams Indictment, Troops to the Middle East, and Norway and Denmark in WWII
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the Eric Adams’ indictment, celebrity-military endorsements of Harris, the polls, the prime interest rate, and take a deep look into the defeat of Norway and Denmark at the onset of World War II.
OK Boomers: Victor Davis Hanson, Pagers, Zelenskyy, and the Fellows “Talkin’ ‘Bout Their Generation”
VDH UltraWorld War II. Churchill, the Chief Villain of World War II? Part Five
Victor Davis Hanson And I told him that. I think, and maybe I’m being a little hyperbolic, maybe, but I told him, maybe trying to provoke him a little bit, that I thought Churchill was the chief villain of the Second World War. Now, he didn’t kill the most people, he didn’t commit the most […]
Zelensky Goes To Pennsylvania, the Routh Manifesto and Other News Stories
Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: Zelensky goes to Pennsylvania, Biden-Harris interviews run amok, the Al Smith Roast thwarted, Trump endorsed by Muslim mayor, the Routh Manifesto, Janet Jackson say Harris’ father is white, and the Secret Service report on Butler, PA.
October September Surprises!
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover. Think of the last-minute bombshell disclosure, five days before the 2000 election, that […]
Geo-Strategic Truths, California Goes Medieval, and Trump Sanctuary-City Policy
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler on the geo-strategic truth of the Ukraine War, Elon Musk facing off with Governor Newsom, California building a medieval society, an update on the campaign polls, Trump and sanctuary cities, illegals flown into the US, and civilizational suicide.
VDH UltraWorld War II. The Accidental Millions of Russian POW Deaths? Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson That’s not what I’m saying. Germany, look, they put themselves into a position, and Adolf Hitler is chiefly responsible for this, but his whole regime is responsible for it, that when they went into the east in 1941, they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions […]
VDH UltraWorld War II. Germany and the Causes of World War I, Part Three
And so, when you do something like that with, I mean, again, like a historical event, like World War Two, where, I mean, the one rule is that you shall not do that. You shall not look at this topic and try to understand how the Germans saw the world: like how the whole thing […]