VDH UltraThe Crazy Story Behind the Ridiculous News. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson When Hatred Is Mainstreamed: The Strange Case of Joy Reid Joy Reid is the MSNBC host of her own show, The Reid Out. She is the child of immigrants from the Congo and Guyana. Reid is known as the supposed “heroine of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’,” at least according to The New York Times. Certainly, […]
You Cannot Fool All the People All the Time
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the settlement for E. Jean Carroll, DC juries in a time of lawfare, the border crisis, the desperate Left and its desperate measures, and RFK jr. and vice-presidential picks.
Trump Has Reason to Rage — But Needs to Stay Calm and Get Even Rather than Mad
Donald Trump gave one of his best and most conciliatory speeches of his political career after his win in the recent Iowa primaries—that might explain why the media would not cover it. Later, to answer an ad hoc ambush reporter’s question whether he would hold grudges, he emphatically said he did not. Yet after his […]
From the Pre-Socratics to Kari Lake and Bibi Netanyahu
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc analyze pre-Socratic philosophy, the Kari Lake recording, Trump speeches, Texas’s constitutional crisis, and the anti-Bibi campaign by the Biden administration with the help of Bibi’s own war cabinet.
VDH UltraThe Crazy Story Behind the Disturbing News. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson The Unspeakable Precivilizational Barbarity of Hamas (Continued) Israel had vacated Gaza since 2005. A democracy of sorts was promised. Philanthropists sent hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to facilitate the profitable transitional use of abandoned Israeli infrastructure. Literally billions of dollars of international money poured into Gaza, much of it Western, […]
The GOP Nominee Race Takes Shape After New Hampshire and Other News
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc to discuss the news of the week: campaign trail notes and questions, Supreme Court ruling allows federal agents subvert border defenses, our universities plagued by anti-Semitism and greedy professors, and are we at war with Iran?
Nikki Haley’s Strategies?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Nikki Haley just lost the New Hampshire primary by 11 percent. She had earlier come in third in the recent Iowa caucuses behind Ron DeSantis. But DeSantis, not she, dropped out of the race. He then endorsed front-runner Donald Trump. By contrast, Haley confidently announced that at last there […]
Military Thoughts: From Israel, to Europe and the United States
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler in a conversation on the two-state solution in Israel, old and new urban warfare, generals Robert E. Lee, William T. Sherman and Lloyd Austin, the needs of our modern military, Europe needs to prepare for war, and the hysterical style of our politics.
“Appeasement guarantees war” – Victor Davis Hanson
Listen to VDH talk about appeasement and how it leads to war in an interview with Will Kingston of the Australiana podcast, produced by The Spectator Australia.
VDH UltraThe Crazy Story Behind the Disturbing News. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson The Unspeakable Precivilizational Barbarity of Hamas A recent report from Israel chronicles the tragic, more than two-months-long hunt of a bereaved father, David Tahar, for the head of his slain son, Adir—a young Israeli soldier murdered by terrorists on October 7. Tahar had been warned by Israeli authorities not to view the remains of his […]
VDH UltraDear Not So Angry Reader Barbara Toncheff, Part Two
II. In contrast to Lee, Sherman was a grand strategist, who viewed war as an elemental conflict of finance, economics, sociology, politics, and natural and human resources. For all his verbal crudity and argumentative nature, Sherman was at heart a humanist who despised war and carnage and did his best to win the war with […]
Left Ideology and Post-Civilizational World
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explain the reasons elites approve of Biden’s record, Davos elites’ selective criminalization, university reputations in the balance, Rice University offering “Afro-chemistry”, and “insurrection,” Oct. 7, and Left ideology.
2024—America’s Year of Living Dangerously
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Lame-duck presidencies, especially in the last six months of their final term, in general can offer opportunities for America’s enemies to take advantage of a perceived vacuum as one government transitions to the next. But these normal changeover months are especially dangerous when a perceived weak or appeasing lame-duck president […]
Dangers of the Deep State From the Inside Looking Out
This weekend Victor Davis Hanson interviews Kash Patel on what to do with Iran, Biden’s policy of appeasement and its fickle policy toward Israel.
Houthis Terrorists, Trump Chasers, and Rare Moments at Davos
In this Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss governor Brian Kemp avoiding charges against Fani Willis, Houthis terrorism, two Navy seals lost off the coast of Somalia, rhetoric about Trump and the post-Iowa caucus game plans, Davos dignitaries talked to by Javier Milei, Jamie Dimon’s truth-about-Trump interview, and false information […]
VDH UltraNot So Angry Reader 01-19-2024
From a Not So Angry Reader Barbara Toncheff I always look forward to hearing you speak on preventing the ultimate decline of this great nation under the current administration’s policies. However, it appears you are casting a shadow on the capabilities of General Lee while extolling hero status on Sherman. Isn’t it true that General […]
The Backwardness of Modern Progressives
Join with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they analyze Fauci’s backtrack on his COVID policies, how Oct. 7 woke us up to DEI, applying DEI to past “minoritized” leaders and groups, and Hillsdale College unfairly attacked by NY Times article on election denial.
The Hysterical Style in American Politics
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long-standing right-wing “paranoid style” of conspiracy-fed extremism. But far more common, especially in the 21st century, has been a left-wing, hysterical style of inventing scandals and manipulating perceived tensions for […]
VDH UltraAngry Reader 01-17-2024
From An Angry Reader: FROM MICHEAL (sic) JORDAN: Your recent commentary on the resignation of Harvard’s president was nothing more than white supremacist drivel. No one benefits more in this country than white males, so who’s playing the race/victim card exactly? Fucking maroon! Dear Micheal (sic) Jordan, You earn at least an eight on the […]
VDH UltraThe DEI Ruse Is Imploding. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson Epitaph DEI is racist. After lying before Congress that she had to consider “context” and “free speech” before considering discipling anti-Jewish behavior and speech on her Harvard campus, and after being caught plagiarizing in some 60 percent of her meager scholarly output, Claudine Gay pulled out all the racist stops to save […]