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 […]
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.