The Strange Disconnect Between Israel and Ukraine
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Ukrainian and Israeli wars are similar and yet also different conflicts—but in more ways than we can imagine. Ukraine was invaded by a huge Russian state, with a population three-and-a-half times greater, a gross national product ten times larger, and an area thirty times its size. Hamas, by contrast, […]
VDH UltraAngry Reader 02-14-2024
From an Angry Reader: What is the Matter with Victor? Part One What is the Matter with Victor What is the matter with Victor? The latest diatribe about Joe Biden not trying to the immigration problem is total diction of the Truth! Anyone who is breathing and has a functioning brain iOS aware that Trump […]
VDH UltraHistory—and Ukraine and Israel
Victor Davis Hanson After the heroic late February and early March 2022 salvation of Kyiv by ad hoc Ukrainian forces, ebullience swept the West. Putin and his thuggish invasion were seemingly defeated and the war all but won. Amid such euphoria, billions of dollars of weapons poured into Ukraine. European and American politicos outdid each […]
Putin Interview, Biden Defense, and Free Speech
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler analyze Tucker Carlson’s interview of Putin, Biden’s response to documents investigation, and the Mark Steyn settlement which is about free speech.
Do Leftists Now Believe Leftism Doesn’t Work?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness It is hard to destroy a naturally beautiful city like San Francisco, with ideal weather and stunning infrastructure inherited from far better earlier generations. Yet San Francisco continues its much-publicized and self-inflicted doom loop. The productive classes still flee the increasingly crime-ridden city and its self-induced pathologies. The city is […]
Addled Biden and Xenophon Our First Polymath
Join Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Sami Winc this weekend for a discussion of Biden’s “reassuring” speech, the Biden classified files, and Xenophon’s life as a soldier, philosopher, historian, and his works covering everything from war to Socrates to everyday life–is he the first man we should know from Ancient Greece.
VDH UltraParadoxes of America in the Paradoxical Middle East loop
Victor Davis Hanson There have been some 170 attacks on American installations spread over Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. And while they are not always identical in mission and nature, our bases’ general agenda is to help governments in the Middle East resist the resurgence of ISIS, a Sunni-derived radical terrorist organization that during the Obama […]
Impeachment, the Border and Targeting Trump
In this news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc look at Mayorkas’ impeachment, the border bill dead in Congress, an update and overview of the Trump cases, and mayor Eric Adam’s frustrations.
Envisioning a Better Nation: Musk and Mega-Donors
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Elon Musk’s compensation denied and ideas of a new university, reforming entrenched DEI, financing illegals and fiscal responsibility, mega-donors begin to see the downside to elite universities, and Trump’s case postponed.
The Absurd Democrat Border Con
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In 2021, Joe Biden opened wide an inherited, secure southern border that had finally stopped mass illegal immigration. When he overturned Donald Trump’s efforts, a planned flood of over 8 million illegal immigrants entered the U.S. Almost all arrived without background checks, health screening, or vaccination certificates—but with massive needs […]
VDH UltraAngry Reader 02-07-2024
From Angry Reader Gerald Dnko: VDH Biased POS I just wanted to say fuck you Victor and you have no impartiality. Youre definitely a fake ass “journalist”. Your shit would never pass any real journalism school. You literally wrote that in all cases he faces lefy wing judges… So Eileen Cannon who was slapped down […]
VDH UltraThe Crazy Story Behind the Ridiculous News. Part Six
Victor Davis Hanson The Strangest Case of E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump (continued) 5) As for Carroll’s suits, there were originally no criminal or civil charges filed because obviously the statute of limitations had long since expired. But that changed in 2022 when a new law (“The Adult Survivors Act”) was passed in the […]
Lackluster Left: Iran, Bombings, and a Border Bill
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Biden strikes back at Iran, Justice Sotomayor pressed to retire, Ayanna Pressley cries racism, Center of the American Experiment bombed, and the McConnell-Schumer bill.
Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What Excites Biden? Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters we now daily witness that are nearly destroying the country. When the ailing and non-compos-mentis president […]
Modern Epidemiology, Ancient History, & the New Napoleon
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson interviews Dr. Steven Quay on the latest news on disease, explains the works and methods of Herodotus and Thucydides, and reviews the new movie “Napoleon.”
VDH UltraThe Crazy Story Behind the Ridiculous News. Part Five
Victor Davis Hanson The Strangest Case of E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump 80-year-old E. Jean Carroll, a former relationship- and sex-advice columnist, just won a huge $83.3 million settlement from Donald Trump in connection with a previous finding that she was “defamed” by Donald Trump. New York is not a hospitable place for any […]
The Obscene and the Obsequious
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss this week’s news: police attacked by illegals in NYC, truckers to the border, three Americans killed in Jordan, Harvard’s plagiarist diversity tsar, Cori Bush hires husband, and governor Newsom fangirls Biden.
How To Ensure a Big, Ugly War with Iran
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some 170 times. Ostensibly, these terrorist groups claim they are hitting US forces to coerce America into dropping its support of Israel and demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza war. In reality, these satellite terrorists are being […]
Recruit Crisis, Veteran Services, and the Anzio Invasion
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler analyze DEI in the FBI, recruiting crisis in Britain, illegal immigrants cheat our veterans out of services, the modern casual style, the UN pauses funding to Palestinians.
VDH UltraThe Crazy Story Behind the Disturbing News. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson When Hatred Is Mainstreamed: The Strange Case of Joy Reid (Continued) 3) Given Reid’s free pass to collectively stereotype groups, mostly all whites in general, why—in an era in which cultural appropriation is a common leftist charge in matters of dress and grooming (do we remember the dreadlocks scandal in which whites […]