Destroying Meritocracy Is Deadly
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection. In mid-December, a San Francisco-bound United Airlines Boeing 777-200 airliner, just a little over a minute after taking off from Maui, Hawaii, suddenly dived. It lost more than half its altitude and came within 800 feet of crashing into […]
Victor Davis Hanson: The Chinese Spy Balloon, Orwellian Newspeak, and the Top-Down Revolution Engulfing America
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VDH UltraAmerican Graffities. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Drinking “Coors” was standard, Olympia was considered “piss water.” (I preferred Olympia because it tasted like water.) Again, almost everyone knew something about cars. (None knew much about our Volvo 544 and looked baffled when they opened the hood.) Most on Saturday nights parked out on someone’s safe-space farm, drank, talked, fought, […]
VDH UltraAmerican Graffities. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson George Lucas’s American Graffiti is getting a lot of play recently. This year is the 50th anniversary of that brilliant film, depicting the fading high-school age of 1962 in small-town America—before the Sixties kicked in, Vietnam went to 500,000 American troops, and various cultural revolutions of the turn-on, tune-in, and drop-out sort […]
Muddling, Befuddling, Fetterman, Trump, and Fauci
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Biden’s performance from SOTU to Super Bowl talk, Fetterman‘s recent political moves, Fauci’s mea culpa and the history of the Yalta conference.
Bombshells, Landmines, and Nemesis
For much of 2017 through 2021, Americans suffered the “bombshell” and “walls are closing” mythologies first of Russian collusion, then of supposedly vast Russian social media investments to sabotage the election. From there we moved on to the Alfa Bank ping-pong fable, the supposed Putin bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan that Trump was said […]
Landmines and Reckonings
This weekend episode Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc devote to the various landmines that may trip up the Biden Administration. He then talks about the Never-Trumpers dilemma.
Our Broken Kaleidoscope
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the recent diplomacy of Turkey, India, and Ukraine. Then they examine transgendered activism and current cases of black-on-white violence.
VDH UltraBalloonology
Victor Davis Hanson 1. Do we really believe it was unsafe to shoot down the Chinese balloon over Montana (6 people per square mile), but not over the Aleutians (1 person per square mile), or off the Pacific coast while in U.S. waters? 2. Was it really true that the Chinese balloon was of […]
State of the Union
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson as he talks with cohost Sami Winc about Biden’s State of the Union speech, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and a Ukraine update.
The Mess of an Address
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After listening to the State of the Union address, Americans know why the latest Reuters poll has Joe Biden at 41 percent approval. Vice President Kamala Harris polls even lower—despite the obsequious efforts of the most biased media in history that has, in effect, merged with the Democratic Party. The […]
VDH UltraOur Edith Wilson
Víctor Davis Hanson Jill Biden apparently is studying the career of another progressive icon, First Lady Edith Wilson. Edith (also a younger second wife to her widowed husband) went from First Lady to de facto President from October 1919 to March 1921, after Woodrow Wilson suffered an incapacitating stroke that left him bedridden. Jill has […]
VDH UltraMy Late, Great Beautiful Neighborhood. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Many of the dumpers—the more serious sorts with flatbeds that can unload a half-ton at once (see below for an illustration of a vineyard row after it was nearing being cleaned from an original 1/8 of a mile trail of hazardous liquid and solid trash and over 100 broken neon light tubes)—prefer […]
Trump upped US support for Greece, Israel
Pavlos Papadopoulos via Ekathimerini Victor Davis Hanson’s views place him among the “contrarians” in the US academic establishment. A philhellene with deep knowledge of ancient Greece, he has been visiting the country regularly for the last five decades. He’s also been one of the most courageous supporters of the policies of Donald Trump, with whom he […]
Invading US Air Space and Other Cases of Overreach
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Jack Fowler about the Chinese spy balloon, and pro-lifers at the Smithsonian asked to remove their hats. They look back at the consequence of Covid policy and defunding the police.
Ukrainian Paradoxes
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One of the strangest things about the American response to Ukraine has been the willingness of the Left and the establishment Right to discount completely that the war is heading toward a rendezvous with ever-deadlier weapons and staggering fatalities—even as we witness increasing nuclear threats from a weakened and adrift […]
Has the Tide Changed for the Left?
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc continue discussion on the Biden files, and look at Columbia Journalism Review‘s article on the Russia “hoax” and the meaning of Tyre Nichols’ death in the Black community.
Spy Balloon, Squad Rage, and Proxy Wars
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the Chinese spy balloon, Ilhan Omar’s committee woes, Hunter’s lawsuit, and the Ukraine and other proxy wars.