VDH UltraThoughts on the Cultural Revolution in Our Midst. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson We are in the middle of a grand effort to create an equality-of-result, race-based, radical Jacobin society. It is by design entirely antithetical to the Founders’ constitutional republic. And the revolutionary agenda is overseen by an exempt bicoastal oligarchy. The enforced equality of result will, of course, be mandated by elites not […]
Hazing Trump and Other Left Tactics That Lose
Listen in this Friday as Victor Davis Hanson looks at the recent state of Trump affairs, Don Lemon speechless, Sunny Hostin with foot in mouth, and Newsom doubling down.
Wokeness and Warring in Geopolitics
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the economic and political fate of Europe, wokeness as geopolitics, and the current state of the Ukraine war.
Martha’s Meltdown Model
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Martha’s Vineyard has been all over the news. The tony resort community so loves aiding and comforting the undocumented immigrants who were flown in from Florida that it hugged them—for barely 48 hours. Oddly, the Left became unhinged when red-state governors—whose states the last two years were flooded with some […]
VDH UltraDoes Trump Grasp What the Left is Doing? Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Let us first be clear. Do not believe that the midterms are lost, or even that the Democrats are on the “upswing.” Instead go back and read the Labor Day press and study the September polls of 1994 and 2010, when the supposed Republican tsunamis had “crested.” They had not. Both years […]
VDH UltraDoes Trump Grasp What the Left is Doing? Part One
Victor Davis Hanson A month ago, the news was “bombshells” from the January 6th committee. Three weeks ago, it was the “Raid,” or the FBI descent into the Trump home to take back “nuclear secrets.” As Merrick Garland fumbled about offering ever new reasons for the historic departure from 233 years of protocol, we then […]
Martha’s Vineyard, Ron DeSantis, and John Ford
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler in a conversation revealing Martha’s Vineyard elitism, Ron DeSantis’ prospects, and VDH’s commentary on the three best Westerns.
Equal Justice, They Said
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What once distinguished the United States from illiberal regimes following the Orwellian mantra “some are more equal than others” was the hallowed American idea of “equal justice under the law.” The phrase is engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court—an ideal that took centuries to achieve. Yet it […]
Rhetoric’s Edge
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about current news and look at the cutting rhetoric in the recent Biden speech in Philadelphia. There seems little truth and far less reason for inciting citizens against MAGA supporters or Trump.
Post-Modern Rhetoric, Pre-Modern Culture
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to discuss the cases resulting from the racism hoaxes, the damage of rhetoric against whites, Queen Elizabeth’s critics, energy policy in California, and the inside view of a raisin harvest.
VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part Five
Victor Davis Hanson We lost two entire crops to unseasonable tropical storms and saved one from a deluge by “rolling all night long” with a crew of ten. (Even my 60-year-old dad was on his operated knees and my mom too.) When rain came in those days, health or age was no exemption from rolling. […]
Beyond the Blinkered Blueprint
Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler discusses Justice Robert’s defense of Supreme Court integrity, the Left’s bad old ideas, Fauci’s charades and university wokes destroying lives and culture, and Trump’s trajectory.
Ukraine with a Whimper or a Bang?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Russia started the war with Ukraine in late February with a shock-and-awe effort to grab Kyiv. It failed both to decapitate the government and absorb half the country in one fell swoop. Soon the conflict descended into a war of attrition in Eastern Ukraine over the occupied majority Russian-speaking borderlands. […]
VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson The trays after picking then sat cooking for 8-12 days, depending on the heat and humidity, the quality of the picker, the height of the vine rows, and the nature of the soil (sandy meant quick drying, heavy loam not so much). Some perfectionist farmers then sent a crew to “turn” or […]
VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson As I said, I was a good picker but a lousy farmer inspector. Whether I yelled at the offender depended on whether he was young, male, and a gang banger (yes, demand a good job), or old, tired, and trying (no, let him pass). At ten I once said to my grandfather […]
To Bring Down a House of Cards
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler look at listeners questions on the Vietnam war, the decline of civilization, can decline be stopped, can woke destruction be reversed? Everyone needs to refuse to live by lies.
America Delira
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Travel abroad and or talk to pro-American foreigners here, and you will be surprised at what they say. It is not boilerplate anti-Americanism of the usual cheap Euro style. And their keen criticism is not just that we are $30 trillion in debt, dependent on China, with a corrupt elite, […]
Grand Strategy
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss military history, focusing on generals and strategists, while also assessing progress in the ongoing war in Ukraine.
VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson In those days of a half-century ago, there were one or two porta-potties at most at the end of the rows, overused and smelly by noon. (Many were “farm-made” of plywood and not so easily drained and cleaned.) Water canteens were often ill-kept by contractors. What dribbled out was usually hot and […]
The Weaker Power
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson as he answers listeners’ questions with cohost Jack Fowler: why not boycott China, what does VDH think of “Band of Brothers” and the historian’s craft, and thoughts on military strategy of the weaker power.