Revising Government, Rooting Out Crime and Waste
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss everything from Mahmoud Khalil’s status as a guest of the US, Trump trolling, tariffs in the ag. industry, DEI activists offer to cheat for DEI candidates in air traffic controllers, Democrat agenda, and a new Harris word salad.
Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal—and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s […]
VDH UltraWhat are Trump’s Arguments Against Canada and Mexico?
Mexico. Part Two Trump has four, far bigger, gripes with Mexico. They are more compelling than his Canadian squabbles. One, suddenly Mexico’s trade surpluses are an astounding $170 billion or more. Indeed, it grows second only to China’s! And it is predicated on assembling Chinese materials into finished goods that can thus brazenly escape tariff […]
VDH UltraWhat are Trump’s Arguments Against Canada and Mexico?
Victor Davis Hanson Canada. Part One Trump has been waging a running verbal battle with Canada. And it is based on four of his own pet peeves. One, he despises Canadian Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who in the past has openly sided with Trump’s political opponents in 2016, 2020, and 2024. […]
Trump’s Speech to Congress and Democratic Leadership
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for discussion of President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, turning around universities, Democratic leaders like Hakeem Jeffries, Gavin Newsom, and Tim Walz, the censure vote on Al Green, race and gender essentialism is logically flawed, and the Ukraine war.
Trump’s Democratic ‘Allies’
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Former Clinton strategist James Carville has reinvented himself at age 80 as a sage Democrat podcaster. His predictions—remember, a victorious Kamala Harris?—are usually wrong. He enjoys engaging in public duels with celebrities to gain online clicks and media appearances. Yet sometimes he appears judicious in his effort to return his […]
VDH UltraZelensky Mistaken
Ultra Subscribers: This Friday’s ultra examines President Zelensky’s mistakes as he left the meeting with President Trump and Vice President Vance.
Five Ukrainian Fables
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Fable One: Donald Trump Is Appeasing Russia? Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II deal? Who withdrew from an unfair missile deal with the Russians? Who cajoled and berated […]
Mexico, MeToo No More, the Left’s Meager Pickin’s
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Pete Hegseth rethinking Mexico, Mark Halperin, no-strategy Democrats, “inseminated” persons, Harris for California governorship, Walz’s latest machinations, Stanford students identifying with killer Luigi Mangione, Bezos’s Op-Ed changes, and anti-Semitism still on campuses.
VDH UltraUkraine Peace—So Far Away and Still So Close
Victor Davis Hanson After the recent dustup with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the White House, Volodymyr Zelenskyy should have taken a lesson from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Like Ukraine, Israel too is similarly in an existential war—in fact against four adversaries. And likewise, it is dependent on U.S. financial and military aid. […]
VDH UltraMissing Those Good Old Alternatives to Trump? Part Two
3) Pentagon. The military was declared not to be chronically short by 30-50,000 recruits each year—simply by readjusting the required manpower levels downward. Do we remember the monthly sound-off of a retired admiral or general (Mark Milley was the latest example) screaming that Trump was a “fascist,” and during the Trump presidency, that he was […]
Zelensky Leaves Washington
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for discussion of Zelensky’s mistakes, the brainiac left response, Vance’s record, how Trump’s critics want to undermine peace, generals in war and generals in peace, how 60% of Democrats negative on Israel, Byron Donalds’s run for Florida governor, and the Epstein files.
Who Really Politicized the Pentagon?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Is the era of rounding up government or academic “experts” to declare their support or opposition to ongoing controversies over? Public declarations by Anthony Fauci and his associates to follow their “expertise” or “science” did not work out well and persuaded few. Recall the 1,200 partisan healthcare “professionals” of June […]
History of Income Tax Amendment 16 and News of the Week
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson discuss with cohost Sami Winc the history of Amendment 16, a new income tax in 1913. They also address the news on healthcare, the “Golden” card, Newsom’s podcast, issues in immigration given a closed border, Jake Tapper’s duplicitous new book on Biden’s decline, and Gene Hackman passed away.
VDH UltraNewsom Casts About in the Pod World
Good morning Ultra Subscribers. Victor talks about the debacle we all know as Newsom and his new podcast that draws him from the responsibilities as governor. What is the source of California’s decline? Join this seven-minute video. Subscribe here if you haven’t already joined the Blade of Perseus.
Wheeling and Dealing in Europe and at Home
Listen to the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and his cohost Sami Winc: peace deal in Ukraine, China and Russia mineral rights in Bolivia, German elections more left than right, Dan Bongino deputy director of the FBI, Comey’s “honeypot” operation, Tulsi Gabbard’s wayward employees, covid scams and conflicts of interest, and self-righteous but […]
Who Caused the Counter-Revolution?
At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year. Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars […]
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Jack Fowler discuss the recent executive orders from President Trump, their implications, and the broader context of energy policies in America. He reflects on the challenges facing the Trump administration, including infrastructure failures and the political landscape in California.
VDH UltraMissing Those Good Old Alternatives to Trump? Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Given the leftwing hysterical responses to all of Trump’s thirty-day-old initiatives, let us remember what just a few months ago were the alternatives. 1) War. The Biden non-strategy for the Ukraine war was to provide enough aid for Ukraine to continue, but not enough to win and incite nuclear Russia. There was […]
Overexposed: The Truth and Troubles of Left Politics
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler take on Joy Reid’s lost job and the squad’s lost audience, Stacey Abrams’ billions, Gazans celebrate murder of babies, the prospects of rebuilding Gaza, Zelensky’s willingness to step down, Biden destroyed deterrence making rebuilding that much more difficult, German people vote in conservatives, and Kash Patel […]