VDH UltraOur Lethal Frenemies
Víctor Davis Hanson Over 100,000 Americans are dying from opiate overdoses per year—mostly fentanyl coming across the southern border. China ships to the cartels the raw product. They refine it and stamp it into pills for export solely to the U.S., deliberately using shapes and sizes to make their export seem similar to other less […]
VDH UltraNeighborly Theft
Victor Davis Hanson Before the onset of American latifundia (i.e., around the rise of globalization, ca. 2000), the environs here were a patchwork of small farmers, of 40, 60, 120, or 200 acres. All were family owned and worked. Most were diverse—combining vines (raisins, table grapes, or wine) and trees (plums, nectarines, peaches, or almonds […]
Trump, South Africa, and Dilbert
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Trump’s speech at CPAC, South Africa in decline, Scott Adams “Dilbert” cartoonist cancelled, and the archaeology of a San Joaquin farm.
Life Among the Ruins
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness American society is facing three existential crises not unlike those that overcame the late Roman, and a millennium later, terminal Byzantine, empires. Premodern Barbarism We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism. The signs unfortunately appear everywhere. Over half a million homeless people crowd our big-city downtowns. Most know the […]
Comeuppance, Conquest and Terror
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Wray and Garland testimonies to the House, Alexander the Great’s life and legacy, and terrorism 30 years after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Vietnam Revisited: Conversation With Mark Moyar
In this interview, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Mark Moyar about his new book “Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968.” Access to North Vietnamese sources changes old assumptions of the war.
VDH UltraAgrarian Archaeology
Victor Davis Hanson As a classics student at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens some 45 years ago, in the latter 1970s, I was assigned to excavate at ancient Corinth. There I learned a lot about strata and how to detect the rise and fall of Myceneans, the Greeks of the Dark Age, […]
The American Pandemic
Victor and Jack analyze the things plaguing our culture and politics: COVID policy and regulations, extralegal powers of government agencies like the Department of Defense, and “Super Bowl” culture.
The Woke Wrecking Machine
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Almost everything that has followed from the woke mass hysteria gripping the nation since 2020 has proved disastrous. Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result—history’s prescription for civilizational decline. If we continue with the woke hiring of administrators, air traffic controllers, ground crews, pilots, and rail workers, […]
VDH UltraRacial Trickle-downs. Part Two
Víctor Davis Hanson As an academic, I remember the “Words Matter” controversies of the 1990s when euphemisms soon became Orwellian speech and ushered in the age of microaggressions and safe spaces, as “African American” became “black” that in turn became “Black.” Words, then, we were told affect realities. And they do. Certainly, the stereotypes of […]
Men of Faith and Family and Our Hallowed Institutions
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Jimmy Carter’s life and legacy, destroying meritocracy in our institutions, and how Ron DeSantis should shape his campaign agenda.
VDH UltraRacial Trickle-downs. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson A February 3rd huge train derailment recently sent fire balls high into the sky over small East Palestine, Ohio (ca. 5,000 population), in the heartland of the rustbelt of post-industrial America. I guess the current administration would call this small-town clinger/deplorable/chums/dregs country, to paraphrase the past usage of Obama, Hillary, and Biden. […]
Refighting the Vietnam War
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Military historian and Hillsdale College professor Mark Moyar has just published Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968, which is the second in what will become a massive three-volume revision of the entire Vietnam War. It is a book that should be widely read, much discussed, and reviewed in depth regardless of one’s […]
Cabinet Weary and the Peloponnesian War
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc in an analysis of the current presidential cabinet miss-steps, the history of the Peloponnesian War, and censorship of classic books.
The Unclear Strategy in Ukraine
Listen as Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Sami Winc discuss Joe Biden’s trip to Ukraine and the lack of a clear strategy for victory. They also talk about about stormy California and water.
VDH UltraOur Neronian Super Bowl. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson The game itself was well-played and exciting. But the entire spectacle is heading into a strange and ultimately suicidal territory. Before the National Anthem, there was sung and observed the “Black” national anthem of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” It is a wonderful song, but no substitution for our common, shared National […]
Artificial Intelligence and Human Error
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about artificial intelligence, Don Lemon’s remarks about Nikki Haley not being “in her prime”, lying James Clapper still lying, and how the American Graffiti generation was bad but not shoot, kill, smash-and-grab.
The Ukraine War’s Prelude to What?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Ukraine mess is daily looking more like the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, a meat grinder that took 500,000 lives. That three-year conflict became a savage proxy war and prelude for the belligerents of World War II. The Ukraine battlefield is proving a similar laboratory of death. […]
VDH UltraOur Neronian Super Bowl. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson I consider myself an alien from outer space, as far as a lack of knowledge of the supposedly premier Super Bowl halftime entertainers. I usually skip the game and especially the half-time show. This year for some reason I didn’t. I have no real idea who “Rihanna” (Robyn Rihanna Fent) is, other […]
Planes, Trains, and the Abortion Bandwagon
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for some fiery discussion of the Biden-Emmitt Till nexus with East Palestine and airline accidents, federal abortion funding when a depleted military lacks funding, and the tyranny of the local EPA water agent as evidence of impotent government.