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.
The World Wants No Part of Woke, But It’s Glad We Do
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgendered males. Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40 years. But it is considered racist to suggest that arrests, indictments, convictions, and incarcerations deter crime. Major U.S. downtowns almost overnight went from mostly safe […]
Strange Awakenings
Join Victor Davis Hanson’s conversation with cohost Sami Winc about elections, the Biden speech, Mikhail Gorbachev’s life, G-7 setting limits on purchases of Russian oil, and the UN’s report on China’s human rights violations against the Uyghur people.
VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Raisins are dried grapes. For 100 years, Sun-Maid Raisins, the local co-op, insisted on dried Thompson seedless grapes, the green, seedless grapes you saw once in the store fresh (though in their natural smaller state, without being pumped up from the effects of gibberellic acid, stump and cane girdling, and weekly irrigation […]
VDH UltraAn Inferior Present Judges a Superior Past. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson Illegal aliens largely live in the homes of the vanished agrarians. In turn, they rent out the barns and sheds, and create compounds of 20-30 people, with 10-15 cars parked about. No sheriff, no county inspector, no building inspector dares to set foot on these old homesteads of now dead farmers. They […]
We Work With Our Hands
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler answer listener questions about agriculture, domestic and global, and our producers who make our lives possible, the ordinary worker.
How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There is no end of history. Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked for the common good through the ages—and to reject what in the past has failed abysmally. Bad and bankrupt ideas, protocols, and ideologies—like McCarthyism, communism, various cults, or fascism—resurface not because of their […]
Policies and Prospects of Our Woke Universities
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc this weekend for discussion of the current state of affairs in our universities. Where is a good education found?
VDH UltraAn Inferior Present Judges a Superior Past. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson So rote, habit, and the familiar were the secret to longevity. Anything that startled the body, the constitution, was seen as an infection, something that could warp a liver or heart, disrupt a healthy homeostasis. Getting on a plane, missing a connection, stressed to find another flight, crammed on with 150 other […]
Listeners Ask Questions: Part 2
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler field more listener questions, answers to which include a critique of technocracy and address the current crisis of demography.
The Mysteries of Long COVID
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. By far most survived COVID. But hundreds of thousands did not. American deaths now number well over 1 million. Amid the tragedy, there initially was some hope that the pernicious effects of the disease […]
VDH UltraAn Inferior Present Judges a Superior Past. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Rural California, like rural America, in the 1960s now seems almost unrecognizable—not so much a different culture as a different universe. Since then, we certainly have advanced materially, but regressed morally. That paradox is often the way of the past as well, at least since some 2,700 years ago when Hesiod railed […]
Listeners Ask Questions: Part 1
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler address listeners’ questions on universities, airlines, and civil war.
VDH UltraHow Democracy Dies in Darkness—in Five Easy Steps. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson STEP THREE. Change voting and government rules when they are no longer useful. Claim any customs and traditions that are no longer advantageous are mere racist relics or the baleful legacy of old white men. When in the majority, demand the end of the racist filibuster. When in the minority save it […]
The California Model
This episode focuses on California news as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss its various problems in light of it as the Left’s model for the nation.
The Strangest Thing About ‘Semi-Fascist’ Trump
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For the Left, Donald Trump is synonymous with “fascism” (or “semi-fascism,” as Joe Biden put it the other day). And for Liz Cheney and most of the NeverTrumpers, he remains an existential threat to democracy. But to quantify those charges, what exactly has Trump done extralegally—as opposed to his bombast […]
The Empirical Lens and Covid
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson reflects on the COIVD pandemic and the policies put into place to counter it with cohost Sami Winc.
VDH UltraHow Democracy Dies in Darkness—in Five Easy Steps. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson What if you believed that the U.S. was in mortal danger because its elections continually led to the wrong results and policy choices? What if the “people” were just too ignorant of what was good for them and continually displayed such dangerous cluelessness in how they voted? How could you even work […]
Strange Bedfellows of the Left
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Democrats as revolutionaries, Trump’s tweet on Mitch McConnell pronouncements, violence from Mexico spilling over the border, and anti-MLK woke racialists.