What About It, VDH?
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson takes on questions from his readers: he explains his optimism in US, takes a look at China today, assesses the decline of the ancient Athenian empire, gives a short on the Suez Crisis of 1955-56, and analyzes the long view of progressive control in US politics.
Donald J. Trump: An Unusual Political History
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss both how Trump became president and then was indicted — a comprehensive discussion.
A Writer’s Process and NATO’s Origins
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler entertain listeners’ questions on VDH’s writing practices and mentors, words of wisdom. Then he examines the origins and changes to NATO.
Biden Abroad: The Moral and Material Collapse of U.S. Foreign Policy
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The American post-Cold War order from the Ronald Reagan through George W. Bush administration is over. Barack Obama began its erosion with his tired lectures about the past sins of the United States. Obama empowered radical Islamists. He invited Russia back into the Middle East after a forty-year hiatus. He […]
Victor Davis Hanson, Part II: The Contrarian Agrarian
VDH on the writing process for his books and columns, examine how “World War II” has earned that name, and preview his upcoming book, The End of Everything: How War Becomes Armageddon.
A Special on Military Training Institutions
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as VDH chronicles his experience as an instructor at Annapolis Naval Academy and other military institutions, and also recounts seminal moments in his career.
A Classicist Farmer: The Life and Times of Victor Davis Hanson
VDH talks about his rich and fascinating family history and the sweeping changes he’s lived through in terms of both the business of farming and its social life.
What the Left Has Left for America
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000. The antecedents to its current madness were once previewed in the old party’s extremist wing of campus radicals of the 1960s and 1970s. They were accentuated by Black Lives Matter […]
Napoleonic Wars and Plums
This weekend episode Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the significance of the Napoleonic Wars and look at the whole production of a plum crop after they discuss some current news.
From India to California
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc who discuss a white manager winning $25 million in Starbucks’ suit, Tucker’s rant on dictators, India’s role in international affairs, Adam Schiff’s censure, Senate Bill 553 in California, Cornel West and Francis Suarez enter the 2024 race, and the movie Tar.
Signs of Senility and Bay Area Blues
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore dementia and the Oval Office, California politics — tech power, decadence and wealth — and San Francisco worse than the 1970s to which the experience of Eli and Shelby Steele attests.
America Wakes Up to Woke
Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the coalition of the oppressed. Those purportedly victimized by traditional America would find “intersectional” solidarity in their victimhood owing to the supposed sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other alleged American sins, past and present. The so-called white male heterosexual victimizing class was collectively to be held responsible […]
Pride and Impunity: The Biden Administration
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the pride events at the White House and the Pentagon, new evidence on the Wuhan Lab leak, and evidence from Burisma incriminating Biden.
The Ukraine-American Gordian Knot
Most Americans sympathize with Ukraine and were and are willing to supply it with defensive weapons to repel Russian aggression. Proof of that goodwill is the virtual draining of U.S. weapon stocks—from stockpiles of anti-tank weapons and large-caliber artillery shells to anti-aircraft and surface-to-surface missiles. Yet the more the United States gives, the more Volodymyr […]
The Revolution in the Colonies and in Tractors
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the American Revolution and the history of tractors on the farm. He leads with a little more on the Trump indictment.
Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education
One of the most interesting shifts in the humanities is towards ‘social relevance’ and away from traditional modes of teaching. Is it right to say that the trend began several decades ago, at the same time Classical languages declined in primary schools? Today computer programs can translate languages almost instantly. The Classics, rooted for many […]
Justice, Injustice, and Fatal Street Brawling
Join Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc as they discuss a deadly fight in New York, Trump’s indictment charges and Waltine Nauta‘s role, and the Biden pride party.
