Are Iran’s Nine Lives Nearing an End?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The theocracy of Iran has been the world’s arch-embassy attacker over the last half century. So it has zero credibility in crying foul over Israel’s April 1 attacks on its “consulate” in Damascus and the killing of Iran’s kingpin terrorists of the Revolutionary Guard Corps there. Remember, the world […]
Deep Pockets and Deep Throat: From California’s Homeless to NPR’s Politics
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler look at California’s homeless and natural beauty, O.J. passes away and the logic of exempting blacks from laws, colleges in a doom loop, the open border is a win-win for Dems, and the unknown knowns of NPR’s leftism.
VDH UltraFrom Rural to Surreal—Once Small Farming Became Latifundia: Part Seven
Victor Davis Hanson What explains the general breakdown in civilization and the law, in a region where once no one had a key to their front farmhouse door and children free-ranged at age six or seven among their fields and orchards? One reason, of course, is the open border. Millions have illegally entered the U.S., […]
VDH UltraFrom Rural to Surreal—Once Small Farming Became Latifundia: Part Six
Victor Davis Hanson 8. The Garbage Baggers. Sometimes the encounters are surreal to the point of being comedic, yet always instructional about the oddities of rural existence. And after all, one must retain a sense of humor amidst the 21st-century’s absurdities, and sometimes things just don’t add up. Last year I walked along the alleyway and […]
The Middle East: From Brinkmanship to Conflict
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Iran’s aggression, Biden’s feeble “Don’t”, Michigan politics, myths about the Palestinian general will, Trump the voice of reason, Trump and the black vote, and government’s slow response to crime and the elite behind it.
Gaming The 2024 Campaign
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness We have seen enough of the Biden-Trump race so far to predict what lies ahead over the next seven months of the campaign. Currently, the polls are about dead even. Trump, however, for now enjoys small leads in the majority of the fickle swing/purple states that will likely decide the […]
Cynicism: the Roman Novel and Modern Politicking
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks about the Roman novel with cohost Sami Winc. They finish up news of the week with a new whistleblower from Boeing, Biden lies and fostering Iran’s power, and Germany the “Sick Man of Europe.”
VDH UltraFrom Rural to Surreal—Once Small Farming Became Latifundia. Part Five
Victor Davis Hanson 6. The fornicators. I’ll be brief. Recently, I have stumbled upon a growing number of fornicators, if I may use such a term of disparagement—in cars, on blankets on the ground, on mattresses even. As the town grows closer, so the farm seems ideal for trysts. I am no Puritan, but I resent […]
Protesters, Withdraw, and Impeachment
In this Friday’s news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc look at Palestinian protests and pressuring Israel, Afghanistan withdrawal as a failure, the Senate delaying Mayorkas impeachment trial, FISA legislation causing split in the GOP, and transgendered females banned by NAIA.
DEI Cronyism and Woke Grifters
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows. Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of cronies and grifters mouthed party lines in hopes that their approved ideology would allow them to advance their careers and excuse their lawbreaking. The same […]
EV Meltdown and the Left’s Epic Insanity
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore the meltdown of the EV craze, Biden’s strategic petroleum reserve at 17% and border control for the 2024 election, the Left demonizing conservatives, “Killing America” by Eli and Shelby Steele, and California subsidizing labor non-participation and other things destroying the state.
11 Ways Biden and His Handlers are Hell-Bent on Destroying America
11 WAYS BIDEN AND HIS HANDLERS ARE HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING AMERICA: Why are those controlling President Biden using him to advance so much of a destructive agenda that it will likely end America as we know it? If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear […]
VDH UltraFrom Rural to Surreal—Once Small Farming Became Latifundia: Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson 4. The Shooter. Two years ago, during record rainfall and snow melt, the ponds were full, the grass was lush, and the once-ossified cottonwood trees abruptly came back to life as they always do after the end of a drought. Ducks and geese were everywhere. Herons flew in regularly. Bullfrogs croaked all night. […]
The Left’s Methods Bespeak Timidity and Mediocrity
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to examine Blinken’s rhetoric against Israel, Ukraine’s “Spring Offensive” 2023 in retrospect, immigrants flown to Florida and Texas, the myth of rural white rage, and asking Justice Sotomayor to retire.
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 […]