VDH UltraHamas and Hostages
For our Ultra subscribers, Victor Davis Hanson discusses the hostages in Gaza and Israel’s strategy. We are currently working on getting this on the phone app.
Ceasefire, Resignation, and Political “Cults”
In this Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about Hamas-Israeli talks, Jack Smith’s report after resigning, the LA fires, Amy Chua being JD Vance’s guest, calling political parties cults, and another cancellation of student loans.
Joe Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy “Achievements”
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America’s stature abroad. In his now accustomed weird mix of whispering and fiery shouting, Biden apparently felt he had to lie or mislead about almost every one of his “achievements.” […]
Farms, Universities and Businessmen
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to look at Hoover’s legacy, Stewart Resnick’s farms, the presidency left in shambles for Donald Trump, how red-state universities are still DEI infused, the worst VP-pick in history, Zuckerberg’s convenient mea-culpa, and Classics in education.
VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson What then really happened in the Bergdorf Goodman department store some 30 years ago after a chance meeting, flirting, a mutually agreed exit to a secluded dressing room, and the ensuing some three minutes alone? No one knows (or now cares much) but most agree there was plenty of reasonable doubt to […]
REPOST: Even California Cannot Defy Nature Forever (Nov 21, 2018)
Victor Davis Hanson // City Journal REPOST: Originally published on Nov 21, 2018 California has been clouded under a blanket of smoke for weeks. Stanford University, where I work, sent students and faculty home early for Thanksgiving. The campus is more than 200 miles southwest of the 150,000-acre Camp Fire that just incinerated the Sierra Nevada […]
VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson 4) The judge in the case, a Bill Clinton appointee, Lewis A. Kaplan, ruled nonstop against the Trump legal team, chastising them at every turn. And a sometimes exasperated and raucous Trump was reprimanded continuously by Kaplan, whose rulings on the admissibility of evidence and rebukes to the respective teams consistently favored […]
REPOST: California’s Water Wars (Summer 2011)
Victor Davis Hanson // City Journal REPOST: Originally published in Summer 2011 California’s water wars aren’t about scarcity. Even with 37 million people and the nation’s most irrigation-intensive agriculture, the state usually has enough water for both people and crops, thanks to the brilliant hydrological engineering of past generations of Californians. But now there is […]
Revealed, and Revealed Again: The Many Ironies on the Left
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Trump being sentenced, the ironies of the left revealed by Trump, Karen Bass as an icon of the Democratic Party, would Rick Caruso as mayor be different, Newsom needing Trump, and rebuilding California.
Beyond Peak Woke?: VDH Interviews Ilya Shapiro on Our University Censors
In this special episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks to Ilya Shapiro about his law school experience and university employment as a senior lecturer at Georgetown Center for the Constitution, from which he was forced to resign for opinion on SCOTUS DEI hiring.
Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California
Firebombing on the Pacific Over 25,000 acres are ablaze in Los Angeles in the Pacific Palisades fire, a veritable living hell. Some 12,000-plus structures were incinerated. More than 250,000 souls have been evacuated and are in need of shelter. No one has really taken charge yet. And now even the woke culprits for the catastrophe […]
Fire, Trump’s New, and The Temple to Artemis
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the 4th of the wonder of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. They also look at the California fires, ‘newsy’ news on Trump, Honduras, and the presidential panorama at Carter’s funeral.
VDH UltraFixing California Fires
VDH Ultra Victor Davis Hanson explains what California needs to do to fix its fires. Click on the title “Fixing California Fires” or “Continue Reading…” and scroll down a bit to get to the video.
Beyond the Flames: The Devastation of Los Angeles Fires
Listen to the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the Palisades fire in LA and the issues of water, insurance, DEI, Newsom, Mayor Bass, fire Chief Kristin Crowley, and other news from the week — Zuckerberg, Trudeau, Greenland and Panama.
America and Europe Can Hang Together—Or Hang Separately
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Consider these European and American binaries. On December 20, 2024, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in Magdeburg, Germany. He killed 6 pedestrians and injured 299 others. Eleven days later, on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, Louisiana, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar smashed his pickup […]
Trolling and Investigating Trump
Listen in with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they talk about deserved and undeserved presidential medals, Biden’s historical legacy, Japanese steel companies in America, how the post-war mentality is out of date, the grooming scandal in England, the British influence on civic culture, Trump’s sentencing, and boutique environmentalism being full of paradoxes.
VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson 2) Carroll, however, had no sufficient evidence to win her suits. She still had no hard facts or reliable witnesses to prove her accusations at all. She had neither reported the rape at the time nor sought medical attention. There were no written records, police or hospital, to substantiate her claim. She […]
VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part One
Victor Davis Hanson The Bragg, James, Smith, and Willis criminal/civil 91 indictments were, as widely agreed, outrageous weaponizations of the Justice system. They will remain Biden’s legacy and a stain upon the entire American concept of equality under the law. Yet, there was something about the E. Jean Carroll civil and criminal suits—especially the methods […]
Nunes: From Truth Social to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Committee
Join Victor Davis Hanson in this interview with Devin Nunes who reviews challenges and solution from a thirty-year career that spanned Congressional representative and chair of the House Intelligence Committee to his role as CEO of Truth Social and soon as chairman of Trump’s Intelligence Advisory Committee.
Life Under Carter and the Immigrant Mind
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine election to the speakership, diplomacy under Jimmy Carter (hostages in Iran, inflation), farming in the 1980s, corporate v. small farming, Islamic immigrant attitudes and psychology, the choice to go back home, and wishy-washy woke companies and the insurance market.