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.
Does Trump Really Want to Be President Again?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Team Trump has sometimes compared Donald Trump’s current quest for a nonsequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids. Cleveland remains our only elected (1884) president to have lost a reelection bid (1888)—in a disputed vote—only to be reelected four years later (1892). Yet Trump seems […]
VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Five
Victor Davis Hanson Of the hundreds of psychodramas of the last decade, perhaps three have changed the course of history. All were either outright misinformation, half-truths, or remained obfuscated with the full details suppressed. The entire COVID narrative of early 2020 ended up all but destroying the Trump administration, ruining a robust economy, and likely […]
The Midterms, the Administrative State & Implications of the War in Ukraine
VDH looks at the 2022 midterm elections and lessons learned, how America’s top-heavy administrative state has eroded rule of law, endangered personal liberty and economic freedom, and analyzes the conflict between Russia and Ukraine
The Dems are Radical and Their Agenda is Contrary to Nature
The Conservatives underestimates the left and play within the parameters of convention and tradition. The Dems don’t. They’re Neo-socialists, revolutionaries. VDH says we get a glimpse when they want to pack the court, end the filibuster or destroy the electoral college. The Left wants to re-fashion the past, whether renaming or toppling statues or destroying […]
VDH UltraLeftwing Hysteria and the Art of the Psychodrama. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson For every pre-election October surprise, there is always a post-election November psychodramatic “bombshell.” This year, right after the vote, there was the sudden announcement that a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate Donald Trump—on grounds of purported complicity in the January 6 riot and the hysterias arising over his presidential papers. But […]
Jimmy Lai, Psychodramas, and Captain Queeg
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Kevin McCarthy’s candidacy for speaker, Jimmy Lai’s trial, and Left psychodramas from Tawana Brawley to the present. Don’t miss VDH’s analogy between Captain Queeg from “The Caine Mutiny” and Trump.
Senator Marsha Blackburn on the Republican Path Forward
Victor Davis Hanson interviews Marsha Blackburn on the current issues in the Senate.
How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The current “media”— loosely defined as the old major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, the network news channels, MSNBC and CNN, PBS and NPR, the online news aggregators like Google, Apple, and Yahoo, and the social media giants like the old Twitter and Facebook—are corrupt. They have adopted in […]
A Man of Iron
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Troy Senik about his new book, A Man of Iron, a biography of President Grover Cleveland.
The Latest from Elon to China and Ukraine
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Elon Musk and the Left, China protests, Arizona the purple state and the Ukraine.