Indict One—And All?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As we await the publication of all the impending indictments of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Americans are trying to figure out what constitutes an indictable offense for current and retired public officials. Most legal experts, Left and Right, have noted: 1) Bragg promised in […]
Covid and the Future of Viruses: Dr. Steven Quay
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson interviews Dr. Steven Quay on the recent news on COVID’s origins, publishing in the scientific community, and the value of gain-of-function research.
Left-Wing Violence Chic
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness A transgendered Tennessee mass shooter this week executed three adults and three nine-year-old children at a Nashville private Christian school. Supposedly she left behind her a manifesto justifying her mass murdering. As of this writing, law enforcement officials have declined to make the document public. Yet in about a […]
VDH UltraPart Two. Is Hard, Brutal, and Dirty Work Ennobling?
Victor Davis Hanson In high school, I did the usual physical summer farm jobs for a variety of employers—worked as a swamper piling 40-pound boxes of plums and nectarines in the field on trailers or helped tie up young vines, day in and day out. Or I worked at packing houses loading and unloading semis- […]
From School Shooting to Artificial Intelligence
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc to analyze the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, the IRS targeting Matt Taibbi, Xi Jinping says China’s preparing for war, the power of artificial intelligence, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s court case.
Destroy Meritocracy, Destroy Civilization
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler take on the accreditation boards of colleges, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion officers, the destruction of the education system and its ramifications for our culture and everyday lives.
VDH UltraPart One. Hard, Brutal, and Dirty Work Is a World to Itself
Víctor Davis Hanson Professors say they work hard. Some surely do. So do lawyers and media people. I can remember driving 30 miles home from CSU, Fresno after teaching four semester classes, all with separate preps. And that was after spending another four hours in independent studies and office hours, only to enter the house, […]
Suspicion: the Polls and the Panderers of the Deep State
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to examine Trump’s rise in the polls, Biden’s approval ratings, Fauci’s move to private life and other Deep State tales, and the Iraq War 20 years later.
VDH UltraWill Our Commissariat Destroy Us Before We Destroy It? Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson Remember, woke, as the Soviets showed us, is an elite obsession. Those in the Soviet Union that damned housewives for wanting more bread in their near empty stores vacationed in seaside dachas. So too our woke commissars. John Kerry needs his carbon-spewing private jet to combat the climate change caused by hoi […]
Who Owns the University?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The most recent shout-down debacle at Stanford’s law school, one of many such recent sordid episodes, prompts the question: “Who owns our universities?” The law students who are in residence for three years apparently assume they embody the university. And so, they believe they represent and speak for a score […]
Civil War and Civility
In this weekend edition, take a walk through the Roman Civil Wars with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc, a topic bookended by white America dropping out and universities beyond the Stanford model.
Candidates and Warriors
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Sami Winc examine Alvin Bragg’s pending indictment of Trump, Trump and DeSantis fight, and an update on the Ukraine War.
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.