Are Universities Doomed?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In a famous exchange in the The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually” and “suddenly” applies to higher education’s implosion. During the 1990s “culture wars” universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were […]
VDH UltraAmerica at War. Successes and Failures. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson In reviewing America’s long wartime record, what does the United States do well, and what not—and what can we learn from both successes and failures? Production and Mobilization If America is often lax in maintaining deterrence during peace—cf. the disarmed era between 1870–1914 or 1920–1940—it is phenomenal at the 11th hour in […]
VDH UltraAngry Reader: WikiLies
Some time ago Wikipedia posted a strange character assassination paragraph in its biography of me. It should by now be taken down, but only after repeated and earlier failed attempts to persuade them it is defamatory, incoherent, untruthful, and simply a lie. Here is the offending paragraph as originally posted by Wikipedia. Democratic Party Criticism […]
McCarthy, Trump, and Musk: All Contested
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to analyze McCarthy’s potential speakership, Trump’s trading cards, the border and fentanyl, the psychology of the Left’s revolution, and the differences between Elon Musk and SBF.
Some Positive Actions To Undo the Left’s Destruction
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about Elon Musk’s investigation of Twitter’s archives and California’s reparations task force. They then discuss some things we can do to fix our country.
10 Steps to Save America
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a result of a natural disaster, an exhaustion of natural resources, plagues, or an existential war. Crushing national debt and annual deficits, spiraling […]
VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Eight
Victor Davis Hanson The third psychodramatic day that rendered great dividends was the buffoonish January 6th riot at the Capitol. Somehow the Left turned a few hundred out-of-control idiots, some replete with cow horns, painted faces, and sloganeering signs into a cabal of sophisticated revolutionaries seeking to storm the Capitol, hold it, and prompt a […]
From Non-Binary Suitcase Thief to Safe Space Pathos
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Sam Brinton‘s eccentricities, McCarthy’s plans to subpoena FBI agents, Anthony Fauci’s lying legacy, safe space assault on the First Amendment, and Japan’s attack on the Philippines in WWII.
Prisoner Swaps and Shadow Banning
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc talk about the Brittney Griner prisoner swap, Elon Musk‘s method, and Germany’s new natural gas line and that nation foiling an extremist plot.
Two Antithetical Billionaires
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. He properly grew up on the Stanford campus, where his parents were well-known left-wing activist law professors. He went to a tony prep school and on to MIT. Bankman-Fried mocked society’s bourgeois capitalist conventions by dressing and looking […]
VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Seven
Victor Davis Hanson Soon the affluent woke went even further in their hubris. More statues were toppled, more names changed, more dangerous laws passed. Somehow in the mass madness of iconoclasm even the statues of Cervantes and Frederick Douglas were to be desecrated, along with monuments along Washington’s National Mall. The common denominator apparently was […]
The Other Road
Listen in with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler on Herschel Walker’s defeat, Twitter dumps, university quality, Trump’s recent actions and reactions, and California’s wet weather.
VDH UltraWoke Swapping
Victor Davis Hanson Imagine this counterfactual—what if a President Donald Trump had released Viktor Bout from a U.S. prison? He is the convicted, notorious international arms dealer, who had supplied sophisticated weapons to help kill Americans abroad. And further imagine he gave up Bout in exchange for just one white, male, conservative athlete, known for […]
Wokeism and Its Fallout
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about the origins and impact of wokeism, which leads naturally to Elon Musk disturbing the waters.
Our Parasitic Generation
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Be assured young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” — Adam Smith Are we sure that there is all that much ruin left in the United States? We are $31 trillion in collective debt. The new normal is $1.5 trillion budget deficits. The military […]
First Class Fatherhood #670 Victor Davis Hanson
VDH discusses, his experience of fatherhood, the breakdown of the nuclear family and the crisis of fatherless households.
GDT Webinar | The Fragility of Citizenship
Jack Fowler hosts Victor Davis Hanson and Tony Woodlief in a discussion of the fragility of citizenship.
VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Six
Victor Davis Hanson A second seminal false narrative psychodrama followed the death of George Floyd. No sooner had Floyd died while in police custody than his deified image began appearing in street art with a halo and wings. We may have given the Taliban billions of dollars in invaluable military equipment, a billion-dollar embassy, and […]
Boondoggles and Bombers
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Biden’s build-back boondoggle, liberal education’s slide backward, euthanasia in Canada, Newsom’s reparation and the new B-21 bomber.