What Happened to Stanford?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Stanford was once one of the world’s great universities. It birthed Silicon Valley in its prime. And along with its nearby twin and rival, UC Berkeley, its brilliant researchers, and teachers helped fuel the mid-20th-century California miracle. That was then. But like the descent of California, now something has gone […]
The Many Worlds of Roger Kimball
VDH talks with Roger Kimball about his directorship of Encounter Books and The New Criterion, the craziness on campuses, and the upcoming Republican primaries.
VDH UltraThe Art of the Big Lie(s). Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson 5. The Ukrainian Impeachment call. Donald Trump did not stop approved shipments of offensive weapons to Ukraine in exchange for investigating the Bidens. He simply delayed arms shipments that the Obama-Biden administration had strictly prohibited. Indeed, he ultimately sent them. Trump had good reason to be suspicious of the Ukrainian government given […]
The Twitter Files Testimonies
On this episode, listen as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Michael Caine’s performance in the 1964 war film Zulu, the Twitter Files hearings on Capitol Hill and the insanity of President Biden‘s $6.8 trillion proposed budget.
Are We the Byzantines?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome. Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies, […]
VDH UltraThe Art of the Big Lie(s). Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson 3. The Pangolin/Bat Myth Almost immediately after the arrival of the coronavirus, the public, some brave scientists, and intelligence officers were convinced that the engineered virus escaped the Wuhan lab because: 1) The Chinese suppressed most information about the lab’s work on the virus. 2) There were virulent attacks on those who […]
The People’s Republic of Palo Alto
Listen as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank, Dr. Fauci vs. Robert Redfield, and neighborly theft.
VDH UltraThe Art of the Big Lie(s). Part One
The Left has canonized a number of outright untruths. There are three characteristics of their mendacity. One, the lies are either issued by leftwing government officials or adopted from lying universities, social media, or the corporate world. Two, the lies involve the most vital aspects of American society—its foreign policy and national security, its […]
On the Cheap
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about California storming, Kaepernick and Prince Harry childhood memories, Mexico’s Obredor comment, and Nicholas Wade’s testimony to the House Select Committee on Covid.
The March Madness of the President
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Another couple of weeks, another bout of madness from Joe Biden and his team. Of recent Biden delusions, consider: Biden went off in one of his impromptu Corn Pop, or “beat-up-Trump-behind-the-bleachers” fables. These often slurred and nearly unintelligible tales characteristically virtue signal Biden’s own victimhood and “courage.” They are interspersed […]
Capitol Videos and Punic Wars
For the weekend edition, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc on the Mexican border kidnapping, WalMart closing stores due to historic theft in Portland, and Tucker Carlson’s video montage on Jan. 6. VDH continues his series on war with analysis of the Punic Wars.
Election Integrity: A Conversation with Cleta Mitchell
In this interview, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Cleta Mitchell about her profession and career devoted to election integrity and ballot transparency especially in the context of the 2020 election and looking forward to 2024.
The Unnaturals: Fauci, Lightfoot, and Newsom
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for the top stories: China’s military build up, Fauci backpedals, Lori Lightfoot loses, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Gavin Newsom as possible presidential candidates in the Democratic Party.
The Price of Eliminating Consequences
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Recently there were some remarkable online videos of a Portland, Oregon good Samaritan confronting shoplifters and forcing them to dump loads of their pilfered goods. More stunning, however, was the sheer outrage—of the thieves! They pouted. They screamed. They resisted. How dare anyone stop them from stealing anything they wished. […]
VDH UltraOur Lethal Frenemies
Víctor Davis Hanson Over 100,000 Americans are dying from opiate overdoses per year—mostly fentanyl coming across the southern border. China ships to the cartels the raw product. They refine it and stamp it into pills for export solely to the U.S., deliberately using shapes and sizes to make their export seem similar to other less […]
VDH UltraNeighborly Theft
Victor Davis Hanson Before the onset of American latifundia (i.e., around the rise of globalization, ca. 2000), the environs here were a patchwork of small farmers, of 40, 60, 120, or 200 acres. All were family owned and worked. Most were diverse—combining vines (raisins, table grapes, or wine) and trees (plums, nectarines, peaches, or almonds […]
Trump, South Africa, and Dilbert
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Trump’s speech at CPAC, South Africa in decline, Scott Adams “Dilbert” cartoonist cancelled, and the archaeology of a San Joaquin farm.
Life Among the Ruins
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness American society is facing three existential crises not unlike those that overcame the late Roman, and a millennium later, terminal Byzantine, empires. Premodern Barbarism We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism. The signs unfortunately appear everywhere. Over half a million homeless people crowd our big-city downtowns. Most know the […]
Comeuppance, Conquest and Terror
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Wray and Garland testimonies to the House, Alexander the Great’s life and legacy, and terrorism 30 years after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Vietnam Revisited: Conversation With Mark Moyar
In this interview, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Mark Moyar about his new book “Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968.” Access to North Vietnamese sources changes old assumptions of the war.