Bankrupt and Absurd: What’s Doing Us In?
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the Stanford Law School incident, Charlie Kirk assailed by UC Davis president and students, the billions for reparations and BLM, and tanks in modern warfare. Don’t miss the question: is the US like Byzantium?
Will Our Commissariat Destroy Us Before We Destroy It? Part Three
Víctor Davis Hanson The commissars of the old Soviet Union and the Maoists of China were not just ideological bigots but ultimately careerists. Woke, remember, is a haven, as are all ideological litmus tests, for mediocre wannabees, who seek a different route to lucre that bypasses meritocracy and hard work. The charge of racism! is […]
Questions Without Answers About Ukraine
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Ukrainians, and many Europeans and Americans, are defining an envisioned Ukrainian victory as the complete expulsion of all Russians from its 2013 borders. Or, as a Ukrainian national security chief put it, the war ends with Ukrainian tanks in Red Square. But mysteries remain about such ambitious agendas. What would […]
VDH UltraWill Our Commissariat Destroy Us Before We Destroy It? Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson When Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley bragged that he was focusing on “white rage,” Americans assumed that he had time for such distractions because the army would secure Afghanistan, the air force would keep our skies free of Chinese spy balloons, and the military in general had plenty […]
VDH UltraWill Our Commissariat Destroy Us Before We Destroy It? Part One
Victor Davis Hanson In October 1942, after losing over 7 million Soviet soldiers in some of the largest encirclements in history at Kiev and Bryansk, Joseph Stalin finally suspended the active role of his once pet commissars, zealots, and snitches. Previously the Kremlin had applied ideological litmus tests to all military promotions, rewards, punishments, and […]
Biden Grifters Diagnosis, Ukraine War Prognosis
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for the latest news: the impact of the Trump indictment, Biden family China nexus, banking crisis following SVB failure, Left’s destruction of culture, ISIS resurgent in Afghanistan and an update on the war in Ukraine.
What Happened to Stanford?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Stanford was once one of the world’s great universities. It birthed Silicon Valley in its prime. And along with its nearby twin and rival, UC Berkeley, its brilliant researchers, and teachers helped fuel the mid-20th-century California miracle. That was then. But like the descent of California, now something has gone […]
The Many Worlds of Roger Kimball
VDH talks with Roger Kimball about his directorship of Encounter Books and The New Criterion, the craziness on campuses, and the upcoming Republican primaries.
VDH UltraThe Art of the Big Lie(s). Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson 5. The Ukrainian Impeachment call. Donald Trump did not stop approved shipments of offensive weapons to Ukraine in exchange for investigating the Bidens. He simply delayed arms shipments that the Obama-Biden administration had strictly prohibited. Indeed, he ultimately sent them. Trump had good reason to be suspicious of the Ukrainian government given […]
The Twitter Files Testimonies
On this episode, listen as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Michael Caine’s performance in the 1964 war film Zulu, the Twitter Files hearings on Capitol Hill and the insanity of President Biden‘s $6.8 trillion proposed budget.
Are We the Byzantines?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome. Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies, […]
VDH UltraThe Art of the Big Lie(s). Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson 3. The Pangolin/Bat Myth Almost immediately after the arrival of the coronavirus, the public, some brave scientists, and intelligence officers were convinced that the engineered virus escaped the Wuhan lab because: 1) The Chinese suppressed most information about the lab’s work on the virus. 2) There were virulent attacks on those who […]
The People’s Republic of Palo Alto
Listen as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank, Dr. Fauci vs. Robert Redfield, and neighborly theft.
VDH UltraThe Art of the Big Lie(s). Part One
The Left has canonized a number of outright untruths. There are three characteristics of their mendacity. One, the lies are either issued by leftwing government officials or adopted from lying universities, social media, or the corporate world. Two, the lies involve the most vital aspects of American society—its foreign policy and national security, its […]
On the Cheap
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about California storming, Kaepernick and Prince Harry childhood memories, Mexico’s Obredor comment, and Nicholas Wade’s testimony to the House Select Committee on Covid.
The March Madness of the President
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Another couple of weeks, another bout of madness from Joe Biden and his team. Of recent Biden delusions, consider: Biden went off in one of his impromptu Corn Pop, or “beat-up-Trump-behind-the-bleachers” fables. These often slurred and nearly unintelligible tales characteristically virtue signal Biden’s own victimhood and “courage.” They are interspersed […]
Capitol Videos and Punic Wars
For the weekend edition, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc on the Mexican border kidnapping, WalMart closing stores due to historic theft in Portland, and Tucker Carlson’s video montage on Jan. 6. VDH continues his series on war with analysis of the Punic Wars.
Election Integrity: A Conversation with Cleta Mitchell
In this interview, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Cleta Mitchell about her profession and career devoted to election integrity and ballot transparency especially in the context of the 2020 election and looking forward to 2024.
The Unnaturals: Fauci, Lightfoot, and Newsom
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for the top stories: China’s military build up, Fauci backpedals, Lori Lightfoot loses, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Gavin Newsom as possible presidential candidates in the Democratic Party.
The Price of Eliminating Consequences
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Recently there were some remarkable online videos of a Portland, Oregon good Samaritan confronting shoplifters and forcing them to dump loads of their pilfered goods. More stunning, however, was the sheer outrage—of the thieves! They pouted. They screamed. They resisted. How dare anyone stop them from stealing anything they wished. […]