VDH UltraRemembering Great Men. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson “You have to have good men.” Jürgen Prochnau as Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Ellenbrook in Das Boot “We’re not going to get rid of anybody! We’re going to stick together, just like it used to be! When you side with a man, you stay with him! And if you can’t do that, you’re like […]
Where Are the Democrats Going?
Victor Davis Hanson with Sami Winc talk about the dementia, coherence and message of the Democratic Party .They finish with a look at the new stage of the war in Ukraine.
Polling and Pipelines
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the Trump-McConnell head-butting, recent polls, Kamala’s gaffes, Biden’s dementia, Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and war in Ukraine.
An Epidemic of Cognitive Impairment?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden, the nominal head of the Democratic Party, is 79. But he increasingly acts and sounds 89. Recently, Biden has pivoted repeatedly on stage with his arm outstretched to shake the hand—of someone not there. On one recent occasion Biden called out for Representative Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) who passed away […]
VDH UltraWhat Becomes of the FBI?
Victor Davis Hanson Can the FBI be saved in its present form? Should it be disassembled, and its bureaus farmed out to other agencies? Should its headquarters be transferred to Kansas City, or maybe Fresno, Dayton, or Boise? Given its record of transgressions and lapses, would we miss its absence? Or are its Washington hierarchies […]
VDH UltraEleven Realities About Trump vs. DeSantis
Victor Davis Hanson Most think it likely that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will run against a probable candidate Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. If so, we can expect the following: 1) DeSantis will run on the Trump MAGA agenda. There will be no challenge on the major issues. There will be no Never Trump […]
Pushing the Envelopes in Ukraine
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For all the dramatic late-summer Ukrainian success, we are witnessing yet another deadlock in the war—one that supposedly will be resolved by escalations on all sides. Mutually Exclusive Agendas A rebooted Ukraine is clamoring for more offensive arms. It claims it can win the war, with victory now giddily defined […]
Actors and Musicians
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc on great actors and musicians, and the struggle with crime in our black communities.
VDH UltraThoughts on the Cultural Revolution in Our Midst. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson The party that once lectured America on its venerable Constitution and its affiliated protocols and demanded we live up to its ideals, now shuns them as reactionary. The Bill of Rights—not just the Second Amendment, but the First, Fourth and Fifth as well—are seen as obstacles to its own undeclared revolution. Likewise, […]
The News: Does It Have to Be this Way?
Join Victor Davis Hanson for his latest on current news with Sami Winc: midterm elections, foreign policy, inflation, energy, the deep and deeper state, and the Biden scandal a.k.a. the prodigal son.
The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Civilization is fragile. It hinges on ensuring the stuff of life. To be able to eat, to move about, to have shelter, to be free from state or tribal coercion, to be secure abroad, and safe at home—only that allows cultures to be freed from the daily drudgery of mere […]
VDH UltraThoughts on the Cultural Revolution in Our Midst. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson When the Democrats lose the House in November, several FBI investigations will reveal things we can scarcely imagine. Investigators will hone in on what transpired under the last four FBI directors: McCabe (lied four times to federal investigators and oversaw fake FISA warrants); Comey (leaked confidential memos of private presidential conversations, feigned […]
VDH UltraThoughts on the Cultural Revolution in Our Midst. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Since the Left cannot win over 51 percent of the population to its border, energy, crime, economic, social, foreign, and race-based policies, it turns to its near monopoly over institutions—academia, the media, Big Tech, the administrative state, the corporate boardroom, K-12, entertainment and sports and the foundations—to wage a propaganda and cultural […]
Democracy, Euphemism and the British Empire
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for listener questions about the soundness of democracy, philology, compromise in Congress, and the British-American relationship.
Equal Justice Now and Then
After some thoughts on the Vineyard and war in Ukraine, Victor Davis Hanson response to cohost Sami Winc’s inquiry into the history of justice and current unequal justice and anarchy.
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 […]