VDH UltraFrom Rural to Surreal—Once Small Farming Became Latifundia: Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson Here are my top ten encounters of a strange kind over the last decade in what used to be the safest, most wonderful rural space in the world. 1. The Tragic Dead. Two years ago, I came upon a parked abandoned Volkswagen with a deceased person in it. This was a real tragedy […]
Is The Great Illusion In Ruins?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In 2021, Joe Biden was elected after a bitterly fought campaign that deposed the incumbent Donald Trump. Democrats eventually captured, for a time, both the House and Senate, ensuring the most left-wing government in modern American history. Americans were then set to witness a great experiment. For the first time […]
The Pensive West: Self-Contempt and the Contemporary Campus
This weekend Victor Davis Hanson interviews Benedict Beckeld about his book Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of the West and Kevin Feigelis about the Gaza war and campus life.
Removing Netanyahu, Gagging Trump, Killing Innocents: What Won’t the Left Tolerate?
Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: Biden administration’s Netanyahu policy and Iran’s generals killed, Merchan puts gag order on Trump, Easter at the White House, Ruby Garcia shot by an illegal immigrant, RFK Jr. choses Trump over Biden, and JK Rowling and Scotland’s new hate crime.
VDH UltraFrom Rural to Surreal—Once Small Farming Became Latifundia: Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson The second incident was last week. I heard a bullet whiz through the almond orchard’s lower limbs. It sounded like it traveled 3 feet off the ground, about 20 yards from me. I could see that it came from a parked car about ¼ mile away. Two men from a dry pond […]
Americans Differ on Ukraine and Gaza
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Russia invaded Ukraine, Americans overwhelmingly supported Ukraine—as they did with Israel after October 7. No wonder: Ukraine was surprise attacked by Russia, and Israel was by Hamas. It seemed an easy binary of good versus evil: both the attacked Ukraine and Israel are pro-Western. Both their attackers, anti-Western Russia […]
Crime and How To Get Elected in 2024
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss our current crime wave, what needs to be done to win in 2024, Trump attends NYC policeman’s funeral and the Democrats fundraise, the rise of snark among our comedians and commentators, and the case for Trump.
VDH UltraFrom Rural to Surreal—Once Small Farming Became Latifundia: Part One
Victor Davis Hanson For the first 50 years of my rural existence, I don’t think I encountered more than 10 trespassing cars parked in the orchards or vineyards (one a decade)—aside from the intoxicated drivers who left the main road, veered off the pavement, destroyed several trees or vines, and abandoned their automobiles or trucks […]
Election Rhetoric Storm and California Slippin’ Away
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Joe Lieberman R.I.P., inflation and election rhetoric, California’s exodus, cash economy, water issues, and attitudes of the state’s lawless and immoral.
VDH UltraTrump Versus Trump? Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson Given the radical shift to 70 percent of the electorate not voting on Election Day as the traditional ballot rejection rate dived by a magnitude, given the billions of dollars that will be pledged to stop Donald Trump, and given the use of lawfare to restrict his availability on the campaign trail, […]
With ‘Friends’ Like Mexico’s Obrador, Who Needs Enemies Like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un and the Ayatollahs?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—who prefers to be known as AMLO for short—issued to the Biden administration blackmail demands that sounded more like existential threats. AMLO warned the U.S. that the current influx of some 10 million illegal aliens through the southern border will most […]
Roman Historians and Easter Tradition
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc look at a few news stories, talk about historians of the Roman era, and the Christian and pagan traditions of Easter.
VDH UltraTrump Versus Trump? Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Nonetheless, here we are in mid-March 2024, some eight years after Trump entered the political scene and Trump has arisen from the political deceased. How many epitaphs have been written and will be written about Trump? And yet he is now leading an incumbent president in almost all the polls, with minorities […]
The Bridge Disaster, Message from Mexico, and the Know-nothing Testimony
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this week’s news roundup: the Key bridge collapse in Baltimore, the raiding of Diddy’s home, the reduction of Trump’s bond, Obrador’s warning, skier testimony on climate change, and changes at Boeing.
Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Occupied Gaza.” Prior to October 7, there were roughly two million Arab citizens of Israel but no Jewish citizens in Gaza. Gazans in 2006 voted in Hamas to rule them. It summarily executed its Palestinian Authority rivals. Hamas cancelled all future scheduled elections. It established a dictatorship and diverted hundreds of […]
Terrorists, Squatters, and Other Unintelligible Intelligence
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the ISIS attack in Moscow, squatter’s rights, DEI in the intelligence community, and racializing math in California.
VDH UltraTrump Versus Trump? Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Almost every effort the Left has employed to destroy Trump has not—at least yet—succeeded. And there remains only one Trump opponent left—Trump himself. Let me explain. In 2016, the Clinton campaign, the DNC, the Perkins Coie law firm, Fusion GPS, and Christopher Steele, all with help from the DOJ, CIA, and FBI, […]
Homeless, Illegal Immigrant Policy Failures, Election Oil Policy Covered Up
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Ronna McDaniel hired at MSNBC, Newsom’s Prop 1 and California’s homeless, governor Abbot’s immigration policy changing Left politics, buffering oil production for an election, Candice Owen’s current career, and GOP congressman stepping down before their term is up.
VDH UltraAngry Reader 03-26-2024
From an Angry Reader: Well, the repubs have done did it again. They are so rabidly intent on, hopefully, taking the moral high ground, that they kicked out Santos even though he had not even been indicted for a crime, that they lost another house seat. I have been through the dictionary from one end […]
Will DEI End America—or America End DEI?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness At the nexus of most of America’s current crises, the diversity/equity/inclusion dogma can be found. The southern border has been destroyed because the Democratic Party wanted the poor of the southern hemisphere to be counted in the census, to vote if possible in poorly audited mail-in elections, and to build […]