Dawn of a New Era: Inauguration, Executive Orders and Pardons
Listen to the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the inauguration speech and happenings, Trump’s executive orders, reflections on MLK, and Biden’s pardons.
VDH UltraThe Meaning of Late Pardons
Victor Davis Hanson discusses the late pardons signed by Joe Biden. We are still working on the app to play the video: Androids should work. We are still in the process with Apple of updating the iOS.
The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the left’s hysterical style of attacking Trump no longer worked. After a decade of this unhinged furor, it proved worthless in winning public support—and for two simple reasons. One, after years of Russian collusion hoaxes, the laptop disinformation farce, and the […]
Sovereignty and the Face of Deterrence
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to talk about Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, US sovereignty, Harris-Biden admin and the sympathetic worldview, the necessity of deterrence, France pre-WWII, the unimpressive modern elite, GenZ lacking life skills, Israel and necessity, Gazans knew Hamas, and euthanasia in Canada.
Remembering a Peerless Historian
by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review With the recent death of British historian Paul Johnson (1928-2023), the second Age of Johnson has ended. The first Age of Johnson is an honorific for Samuel Johnson, the great 18th-century man of letters. As impressive and influential as he was, his world was confined largely to Europe, whereas […]
VDH UltraJanuary 20—Novus ordo seclorum? Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson The obvious answer to all these disconnects, shockers, and paradoxes is not quite the whole answer: that Trump won in the greatest political comeback in U.S. history, that he might well be a Reaganesque president to Biden’s Carter, that his success will be his revenge and reveal to the country just how […]
VDH UltraJanuary 20—Novus ordo seclorum? Part One
Victor Davis Hanson How do we explain that the world is turning upside down after November 5, 2024, and will continue following January 20, 2025? Symptoms? Take the media? The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and others suddenly did not endorse their usual left/Democratic presidential candidate this election. So, many of their writers are […]
Biden: The Biden Way and Way Out
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the final actions of Biden — and those of his Left enablers — as he leaves office, the end of the Obama era, MLK Jr.’s inspirational speech and the Black national caucus.
Biden’s So-Called ‘Oligarchs’
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In his last address, Joe Biden offered a Parthian shot at “oligarchs” and the dangers these “billionaires” pose to the republic. At the same time, left-wing senators hammered Trump cabinet nominees on the grounds that they would be too complacent in the face of a supposed takeover of the country […]
National Security and the Deep State: VDH Interviews Adam Lovinger
Listen into the Saturday edition as Victor Davis Hanson interviews Adam Lovinger, the Vice President of Strategic Affairs at the Gold Institute for International Strategy. He reveals the Orwellian situation under the Obama-Biden administration when it came to Iran, national security, and lawfare, all subjects of his new book, The Insider Threat.
VDH UltraHamas and Hostages
For our Ultra subscribers, Victor Davis Hanson discusses the hostages in Gaza and Israel’s strategy. We are currently working on getting this on the phone app.
Ceasefire, Resignation, and Political “Cults”
In this Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about Hamas-Israeli talks, Jack Smith’s report after resigning, the LA fires, Amy Chua being JD Vance’s guest, calling political parties cults, and another cancellation of student loans.
Joe Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy “Achievements”
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America’s stature abroad. In his now accustomed weird mix of whispering and fiery shouting, Biden apparently felt he had to lie or mislead about almost every one of his “achievements.” […]
Farms, Universities and Businessmen
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to look at Hoover’s legacy, Stewart Resnick’s farms, the presidency left in shambles for Donald Trump, how red-state universities are still DEI infused, the worst VP-pick in history, Zuckerberg’s convenient mea-culpa, and Classics in education.
VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson What then really happened in the Bergdorf Goodman department store some 30 years ago after a chance meeting, flirting, a mutually agreed exit to a secluded dressing room, and the ensuing some three minutes alone? No one knows (or now cares much) but most agree there was plenty of reasonable doubt to […]
REPOST: Even California Cannot Defy Nature Forever (Nov 21, 2018)
Victor Davis Hanson // City Journal REPOST: Originally published on Nov 21, 2018 California has been clouded under a blanket of smoke for weeks. Stanford University, where I work, sent students and faculty home early for Thanksgiving. The campus is more than 200 miles southwest of the 150,000-acre Camp Fire that just incinerated the Sierra Nevada […]
VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson 4) The judge in the case, a Bill Clinton appointee, Lewis A. Kaplan, ruled nonstop against the Trump legal team, chastising them at every turn. And a sometimes exasperated and raucous Trump was reprimanded continuously by Kaplan, whose rulings on the admissibility of evidence and rebukes to the respective teams consistently favored […]
REPOST: California’s Water Wars (Summer 2011)
Victor Davis Hanson // City Journal REPOST: Originally published in Summer 2011 California’s water wars aren’t about scarcity. Even with 37 million people and the nation’s most irrigation-intensive agriculture, the state usually has enough water for both people and crops, thanks to the brilliant hydrological engineering of past generations of Californians. But now there is […]
Revealed, and Revealed Again: The Many Ironies on the Left
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Trump being sentenced, the ironies of the left revealed by Trump, Karen Bass as an icon of the Democratic Party, would Rick Caruso as mayor be different, Newsom needing Trump, and rebuilding California.
Beyond Peak Woke?: VDH Interviews Ilya Shapiro on Our University Censors
In this special episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks to Ilya Shapiro about his law school experience and university employment as a senior lecturer at Georgetown Center for the Constitution, from which he was forced to resign for opinion on SCOTUS DEI hiring.