Masks and Mimes of Politics
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler take on Stanford University’s forbidden words and woke-ism in education broadly, the anti-woke “liberals” now Neo-Conservatives, and immigration.
The New, New Antisemitism
The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon—perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 1960s. It arose from and was masked by a general hatred of Israel, following the Jewish state’s incredible victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. That lopsided […]
The Known and Unknown
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler on Biden’s Christmas speech, Jan 6 Committee findings, the omnibus spending bill that didn’t have to be, the symbolism of “red”, and strategic nuclear weapons and the war in Ukraine.
What Will the FBI Not Do?
The FBI on Wednesday finally broke its silence and responded to the revelations on Twitter of close ties between the bureau and the social media giant—ties that included efforts to suppress information and censor political speech. “The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal […]
Cultural Clarity on Christmas
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this episode that looks at some recent news on SBF, the FBI, and Zelensky’s speech. Then VDH turns to the means by which the cultural malaise of the Left might be reversed.
Peaking Through Fingers: A Look at the Decline of Education
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore Japan’s new defense strategy, and Harvard’s Roland Fryer and Cornell’s students-against-grades in an anatomy of the woke destruction of the university. They finish with a short history of the Battle of the Bulge.
Are Universities Doomed?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In a famous exchange in the The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually” and “suddenly” applies to higher education’s implosion. During the 1990s “culture wars” universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were […]
McCarthy, Trump, and Musk: All Contested
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to analyze McCarthy’s potential speakership, Trump’s trading cards, the border and fentanyl, the psychology of the Left’s revolution, and the differences between Elon Musk and SBF.
Some Positive Actions To Undo the Left’s Destruction
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about Elon Musk’s investigation of Twitter’s archives and California’s reparations task force. They then discuss some things we can do to fix our country.
10 Steps to Save America
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a result of a natural disaster, an exhaustion of natural resources, plagues, or an existential war. Crushing national debt and annual deficits, spiraling […]
From Non-Binary Suitcase Thief to Safe Space Pathos
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Sam Brinton‘s eccentricities, McCarthy’s plans to subpoena FBI agents, Anthony Fauci’s lying legacy, safe space assault on the First Amendment, and Japan’s attack on the Philippines in WWII.
Prisoner Swaps and Shadow Banning
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc talk about the Brittney Griner prisoner swap, Elon Musk‘s method, and Germany’s new natural gas line and that nation foiling an extremist plot.
Two Antithetical Billionaires
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. He properly grew up on the Stanford campus, where his parents were well-known left-wing activist law professors. He went to a tony prep school and on to MIT. Bankman-Fried mocked society’s bourgeois capitalist conventions by dressing and looking […]
The Other Road
Listen in with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler on Herschel Walker’s defeat, Twitter dumps, university quality, Trump’s recent actions and reactions, and California’s wet weather.
Wokeism and Its Fallout
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about the origins and impact of wokeism, which leads naturally to Elon Musk disturbing the waters.
Our Parasitic Generation
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Be assured young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” — Adam Smith Are we sure that there is all that much ruin left in the United States? We are $31 trillion in collective debt. The new normal is $1.5 trillion budget deficits. The military […]
First Class Fatherhood #670 Victor Davis Hanson
VDH discusses, his experience of fatherhood, the breakdown of the nuclear family and the crisis of fatherless households.
GDT Webinar | The Fragility of Citizenship
Jack Fowler hosts Victor Davis Hanson and Tony Woodlief in a discussion of the fragility of citizenship.
Boondoggles and Bombers
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Biden’s build-back boondoggle, liberal education’s slide backward, euthanasia in Canada, Newsom’s reparation and the new B-21 bomber.