Bunglers and Crackerjacks
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss John Bolton’s political ambitions, military history programs, and Prince Harry’s complaint factory against his royal family.
What Caused the Political Hysteria of the Left?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The Left has gone mad over Donald J. Trump—past, present, and future. The current Democratic Party and NeverTrump “conservatives” assumed that Trump was and remains so obviously toxic that they do not have to define exactly what his evil entails. Accordingly, they believe that any means necessary are justified to […]
VDH UltraWhat The Left Tells Us About the Left. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson “Election Denialism” I don’t listen much to the leftwing charge of “election denialism.” Why? Not because Republicans who had problems with the 2020 election did not deny its validity. Many did, perhaps because, in a first, in many key states nearly 70 percent of the balloting was not done on Election Day—even […]
VDH UltraAging Creatures of Habit. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Country Living I have lived most of my life in the country, save for three academic years in Santa Cruz, four in Palo Alto, and two in Athens. Like many of you born outside of cities, I get restless in town—too crowded, too loud, too many strangers. I am used to being […]
The Political Spirit or Spirited Politics
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Trump’s influence on the Republican Party, the Supreme Court’s role in J6 riot, border policy, and Queensland heelers.
A Rendezvous With Rwanda?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Despite being Black, he [Rep. Byron Donalds] supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy.” — Representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.) “Larry Elder [former candidate for governor of California] is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned.” — Erika Smith, Los Angeles Times columnist America is an increasingly […]
War and Economic Superpower
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Kevin McCarthy’s “pending” speakership, Russian and Ukrainian war objectives, and China’s economic power.
VDH UltraWe Aging Creatures of Habit. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson As one nears 70 years old, already arrived at Solon’s ebb tide and last age of man, all the old, ingrained habits begin to become burdensome. What once was pleasurable Hesiodic “work upon work upon work” becomes a swollen knee for a week, a sore shoulder for three days, a burning muscle […]
Standards, Identity Politics, and COVID
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the falling standards in our universities, Michelle Obama leading them to identity politics as failure, and COVID lessons learned and unlearned.
The Coup We Never Knew
Did someone or something seize control of the United States? What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border […]
VDH UltraLiving in the Land of Lies. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson I turn on my computer and often receive from two universities all sorts of the latest campus news. But the news is different than it was pre-Covid/George Floyd riots. “The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act” is now some 32 years old. And it is increasingly […]
Political Deception and Its History
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore the long line of deception not just in current democratic politics, but also in antiquity and military history.
VDH UltraLiving in the Land of Lies. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson In reading and listening this holiday week I encountered nothing really other than outright lies. I was sitting on a farm buffeted before Christmas by near record cold temperatures and after Christmas by near record precipitation. Yet almost weekly we receive stories about California’s “permanent drought” of hot/dry weather and an environmental […]
The Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship
What do all our notable fabricators—George Santos, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama—have in common? Well, quite like the Ward ChurchilIs or Rachel Dolezals of the world, one way or another, they lied about their identities. Or they sought fraudulent ways of suggesting their ancestries were marginalized. Or they had claims on being victims on […]
Ending the Year With Things to Look For and At
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson explains his favorites to cohost Sami Winc: actors, novels, musicians, movies that are not Westerns, websites, and politicians.
Back To Reality
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the top stories at the end of 2022: George Santos’ lies, Ukraine and Putin, status of Europe, our border crisis, Pete Buttigieg’s airline fiasco, and Elon Musk.
America at War. Successes and Failures. Part Five
Victor Davis Hanson One post-WWII problem has been the U.S. military’s effective tactical record that has not resulted in achieving strategic resolution. After MacArthur had unwisely and rashly raced far northward into abject disaster, amid the wider expanses of North Korea after the incredible victory of Inchon in September 1950—ever closer to the Chinese border, […]
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 […]
VDH UltraAmerica at War. Successes and Failures. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson What have the American armed forces often failed at? Democracies and consensual societies grow large bureaucracies for several reasons. And often stasis sets in, and ossified clerks and calcified careerists resent the talented outsider and the maverick, not-by-the-book loudmouth. And a result, brilliance is resented and smothered, and America is no exception […]