The Destruction of American Cities
VDH and co-host Jack Fowler discuss the left’s destruction of some of America’s greatest cities through their policies and ideology of being light on crime. Also, more Biden family corruption, the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, and the relationship between what the Soviets did with athletes and what we see today with males competing […]
VDH UltraWokism and History. Part One: “Correct Vocabulary”
Victor Davis Hanson The outbreak of ideological madness is not new to the 21st century. The historian Thucydides in the third book of his history (written sometime from ca. 420–390 B.C.) paused from his general account of the war to chronicle a cycle of ideological-driven violence on the island of Corcyra (modern Corfu) during the […]
Can We Do Anything About America’s Decline?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline—until it began to implode. Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the 2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the deranged fixation on removing […]
Mecca and the History of Islamic Warfare
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss lawfare in Washington, DC, the Islamic wars of expansion, and Biden’s diplomacy disaster.
VDH UltraThe Unpredictable, Unforeseen, and Simply Strange. Part Five
Victor Davis Hanson What caused a near septuagenarian to have a near death experience with a ridiculous bee (or wasp?), one who had been suffering from “Covid euphoria”—the syndrome of finally getting over long Covid and feeling invincible while exaggerating normal health into a sort of divine deliverance and jubilance—suddenly to return to square one? […]
Law, Leaks, and Left Strategy
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this Friday’s news round-up: Tennessee legislator Justin Pearson, leaker at the Department of Defense arrested, the pursuit of Clarence Thomas, lawyers from the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Bob Lee’s assailant arrested.
To the Left-wing, N-U-T-S!
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss having it both ways on Afghanistan, chaos in France, the origin of the word “chaos”, and cancel culture assailing both the use of “ladies” and the Audubon Society.
The Biden 10-Step Plan for Global Chaos
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States? Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency? Why are Japan and India shrugging that they cannot follow the United States’ lead in boycotting Russian oil? Why […]
VDH UltraThe Unpredictable, Unforeseen, and Simply Strange. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson I drifted out a bit again and woke up, maybe a minute later (so it felt like, psychodramatically, but I wager it was only a few seconds). Five minutes later, I crawled to the door to meet the paramedics and made it outside to the steps. An especially calm and polite woman […]
VDH UltraThe Unpredictable, Unforeseen, and Simply Strange. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson Why worry about bees? I kept thinking that as I got dizzier. Out on the farm, the greater worries are as follows: sneaky coyote packs trying to lure the dogs into their ambushes by feigning limps; flicker woodpeckers destroying the sidings on all the buildings; ground squirrels burrowing under the barn foundation; […]
Ideology Kills People
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine revolutionary Left-wing ideology: storming the Tennessee legislature, the WNBA and Jill Biden, the response to soaring black crime rates, diplomatic disasters, de-urbanization, and distractions like transgenderism.
Fiddling America Away
The last few weeks, the world had been writing off the United States as either crazy or irrelevant as it watches America cannibalize itself. Friends tremble at our sudden decline. Enemies rejoice. Neutrals make the necessary adjustments to join the ascendant non-American side. The symptoms of our decline abroad appear everywhere. The more Joe Biden […]
Invasion, Migration? Some Thoughts
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the barbarian invasions that helped topple the Roman Empire. This is book ended by thoughts on Don Lemon’s misogyny, Chicago’s mayoral race, our own border and the drag-queen craze.
The Razor’s Edge
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson as he talks with cohost Sami Winc about Trump’s indictment and then analyzes Democratic policy from tenuous diplomacy to California’s failing state in a wet year. Something’s got to change.
VDH UltraThe Unpredictable, Unforeseen, and Simply Strange. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson I was out early in the yard, picking up debris after our now routine violent California rainstorms. (So much for Gavin Newsom’s “permanent drought.”) Everything was soaked and the winds knocked over lots of umbrella stands. A wet outdoor carpet had blown off the deck onto the lawn. I bent over, put […]
Immigration, Mass Murderer, and Campaign Strategy
In this episode, VDH and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Mayorkas’ border policy and testimony, media in the aftermath of Covenant School, DeSantis and Pence candidacies. VDH takes a moment to explore the similarities of this coming campaign season to Reagan’s 1980s campaign.
Our French Revolution
We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support. […]
VDH UltraThe Unpredictable, Unforeseen, and Simply Strange. Part One
Víctor Davis Hanson Many of us foolishly go about our daily lives oblivious to how tenuous is our grip on the here and now. Much less do we, or should we, needlessly worry how easily everything can disappear in a nanosecond. But why worry about what in most cases we cannot control? And why worry […]
VDH UltraPart Three. Hard, Brutal, and Dirty Work Is Ennobling
Victor Davis Hanson The infant vineyard was beautiful by July. The next June, in only its second leaf, the canopies on the trellises were stunning. The third year we harvested our first crops. Then the table grape market crashed in the Paul Volker years of him breaking high inflation that led to the Reagan recession […]
Fallout from Our Two Systems of Justice
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler who discuss the Trump indictment and its consequences for and reflection in our political culture. VDH then talks about the hardworking culture of the ranch including a sceptic tank “excavation” following a party.