Masks and Mimes of Politics
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler take on Stanford University’s forbidden words and woke-ism in education broadly, the anti-woke “liberals” now Neo-Conservatives, and immigration.
The New, New Antisemitism
The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon—perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 1960s. It arose from and was masked by a general hatred of Israel, following the Jewish state’s incredible victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. That lopsided […]
VDH UltraAmerica at War. Successes and Failures. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson What have the American armed forces often failed at? Democracies and consensual societies grow large bureaucracies for several reasons. And often stasis sets in, and ossified clerks and calcified careerists resent the talented outsider and the maverick, not-by-the-book loudmouth. And a result, brilliance is resented and smothered, and America is no exception […]
The Known and Unknown
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler on Biden’s Christmas speech, Jan 6 Committee findings, the omnibus spending bill that didn’t have to be, the symbolism of “red”, and strategic nuclear weapons and the war in Ukraine.
VDH UltraAmerica at War. Successes and Failures. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson In sum, American war production was characterized by mass quantities, reliability, pragmatism, and affordability. What good did it do Panther tanks that they could blow apart Shermans at great distances if their hours of maintenance to hours of deployment were the inverse of Shermans? So what if the Tiger or Tiger II […]
What Will the FBI Not Do?
The FBI on Wednesday finally broke its silence and responded to the revelations on Twitter of close ties between the bureau and the social media giant—ties that included efforts to suppress information and censor political speech. “The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal […]
Cultural Clarity on Christmas
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this episode that looks at some recent news on SBF, the FBI, and Zelensky’s speech. Then VDH turns to the means by which the cultural malaise of the Left might be reversed.
VDH UltraAmerica at War. Successes and Failures. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Innovation It is no accident that the big-ticket, new weapons systems in World War II were American-made, or ironclads designed from the hull up with powerful guns, like the Monitor and its two state-of-the-art 11-inch Dahlgren turret guns, first appeared in the U.S. That is not to say friends and foes did […]
Peaking Through Fingers: A Look at the Decline of Education
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore Japan’s new defense strategy, and Harvard’s Roland Fryer and Cornell’s students-against-grades in an anatomy of the woke destruction of the university. They finish with a short history of the Battle of the Bulge.
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 […]