VDH UltraAngry Reader 03-01-2024
From an Angry Reader: Mr. Hansen Normally, I appreciate your insight and political commentary. However, this recent column leaves a LOT to be desired in the intellectual honesty department. First, you refer to the border wall not being built, apparently trying to imply that Trump was opposed at every turn by Congress. The facts are […]
American Paralysis and Decline
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.- A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the […]
No One Worries about the Tlaxcalans and Other Ironies
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine whether China will invade Taiwan, reparatory admissions degenerate the culture and standards of the university, Tlaxcalans marginalized by the Aztecs, Google-AI as good as its programmers, and rebuilding a barn.
VDH UltraOde to a Collapsing Barn. Part Five
Victor Davis Hanson The American barn was a symbol, its profile a stark reminder that rural America was healthy and raised families as well as food. The old wisdom of my grandfather echoes as the job nears completion, and I begin to get an inkling of what the finished barn will look like: “You can […]
VDH UltraOde to a Collapsing Barn. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson In the end, I said “Ok, let’s do it”—just as the latest torrential storm hit (so much for the tired warning that the “drought is not over” as we receive two back-to-back near-record years of rain and snow). Over the last two weeks, all sorts of lumber and materials arrived. Manlifts were […]
The Ick of the Left in the Campaign Season
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler in a discussion of Trump and Haley post South Carolina, Biden’s ambassador on the “final solution” for Israel, the Left hounds Christian nationalists, elite “collective knowledge” reduced to the level of “The View,” extra-legal methods to suppress Hunter’s scandals, Laken Riley’s illegal-alien murderer, and political electioneering that […]
Russia! Russia! Forever: An Anatomy of a Left-wing Obsession
Collusion about Collusion The more candidate Trump in 2016 trolled the Clinton campaign (e.g., “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press”), the more the irate left bought into hysterical conspiracy theories. Finally, the left became […]
War, Scores and the Last Tragedian
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Ukraine War two years later, Trump settlement and the NY business community, S.A.T. scores return to university admissions, new non-science in CDC and Health Department decisions, and the last tragedian Euripides.
Being Left: All Things Trump and Their Insensible Insensitivities
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk with cohost Sami Winc about all things Trump, more anti-Semitism at Harvard, NATO should pay up, and trans-players injuring women.
VDH UltraOde to a Collapsing Barn. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson So, 150 years after the barn’s birth, the last month’s California storms started to flop up the roof sheets again. In one gusty hour, I saw the roofline sway and the barn itself shake. Another far more skilled and imaginative roofer came out who two years ago had saved some of the […]
Blue Laws for Red Citizens
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed $500 million. Trump awaits further civil and criminal liability in three other federal, state, and local indictments. There are eerie commonalities in all these five court cases […]
Our Jacobins: a Smorgasbord of News
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler analyze the news: breaking critics of Left policy, hunting down and terrorizing over pronouns, 90-year-old fired for pronoun confusion, the spectacle of a transexual funeral at Catholic diocese, remembering the nuclear family, interfering in Israel’s politics, and squatters taking over homes in the US.
VDH UltraOde to a Collapsing Barn. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson When the almond shakers and sweepers of the surrounding orchards kicked up clouds of dust the floors by this November were 3–4 inches deep in dirt. It was in theory a barn, but so perforated and porous that the inside was not much different from the world outside. About 10 years ago […]
A Warning: Trials, Testimony and the Trump Treatment
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the Letitia James ruling, Willis testimony, treatment of Trump is a message to NY businessmen, could Trump lose in November, East Palestine visit, dealing with illegals, anticipating voters in 2024, Birmingham, AL in 1963, and Venezuelan troops on Guyana border.
VDH UltraOde to a Collapsing Barn. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson I was told by my grandfather (1890–1976) that his grandmother Lucy Anna Davis (1832–1923) when she and her boys arrived by train here from Missouri (ca. 1870–71), bought what is now left of our present farm from the railroad (ca. $4 an acre contingent on improvements made within a set period of […]
Delusions, Alternate Realities, and the Biden Consortium
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Hunter Biden has a train of a dozen lawyers defending him on felony indictments ranging from several counts of tax fraud to gun violations. From time to time, the contents of his laptop come up, both in these criminal trials and in civil suits. The information on the laptop is, […]
Ancient Tragedians and Modern Agonistes
Join the weekend episode with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for analysis of Biden’s speech on Alexei Navalny death, Fani Willis’s trial, the Shellenberger-Taibbi-Gutentag investigation, a third party in our democracy, and the ancient Greek tragedians, Sophocles and Aeschylus.
Eyes Open Wide: Hoaxes, Indictments and Whistleblowers
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for the news roundup: Kansas City shooting, Mayorkas impeached, China scare, two-state solution nightmare, government culpability in the Russian hoax, Elise Stefanik, Tony Bobulinski, and more.
VDH UltraVictor Davis Hanson Responds to Angry Reader Michael Dernburg Continued
What is the Matter with Victor? Part Two 4) By late 2019, the Trump administration finally had managed to cease stop-and-release, rebuild over 500 miles of the rickety border fence, begin on new portions of it, demand refugees apply for status in their own countries, and leverage President Obrador of Mexico to stop transiting millions […]
Looking for the Next President
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Haley still in the race, congressman Bowman once encouraged students to admire criminal icons, the Bronx residents want to meet Trump, the economy is a disaster, the anything-but-Biden crowd, and Dartmouth’s return to S.A.T. scores for admissions.