The Traditionalist: A Tsunami Is Coming
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk over Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, Gen. Milley’s testimony, and the Biden Administration debt and taxes. Citizens are starting to silently say “no mas!” and 2022 may see a swing back like never before.
Our Woke National Icons
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As we watch events unfold in 2021, obvious questions about the fitness of our national leaders present themselves. Who are these new woke national icons and how did they come to lord it over the rest of us? Here are some observations by way of preliminary explanation. The Strategist Chairman […]
Week In Review
Citizenship, Orwell and Our Times The Dying Citizen, VDH’s new book, is out on October 5 this week. Enjoy the examination of citizenship and the threat of tribalism, bureaucracy, and globalization. The week’s work is still below.
The Culturalist: Our Satyricon
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc on the ancient Roman novel “The Satyricon” and applies Petronius’ ideas to modern culture. First, VDH has a few words on General Milley’s recent testimony.
The Classicist: War
Victor Davis Hanson pays tribute to the late Angelo Codevilla and discusses General Milley’s transgressions in depth with cohost Jack Fowler.
Our Porcine Two-Legged Wokeists
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which […]
The Traditionalist: Biden, Borders and Other Left Breaches
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler review current Progressive policy failures, the puzzling anti-Semitism, and the riddle that is Hunter Biden.
The Symptoms of Our Insanity
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Think for a minute. When did we become a nation of socialist AOCs wearing “Tax the Rich” dresses to $35,000-a-ticket celebrity galas, without mandatory masks, while being served by masked servants—a now tired script from the Obama birthday bash crowd to the grandees at the Emmys? When did we discover […]
Week In Review: Reflections and Regressions
The Week in Review This week there is a great exchange between Victor Davis Hanson and General H. R. McMaster. Find it at the bottom in the “Serendipity” section. Otherwise, the content order is the following: podcasts, American Greatness, VDH Ultra Content, with Serendipity last. Sami Winc
The Culturalist: Technology and Education
VDH discusses with Sami Winc Israel’s Iron Dome, Wuhan virus, and education in our public institutions. Animals, a historical perspective, completes the episode.
Citizens Lamed
Wilfred M. McClayThe New Criterion The title of “citizen” has lost much of the simple grandeur it once had. It deserves far better, and as Victor Davis Hanson shows in his learned, powerful, and troubling new book, The Dying Citizen, the steady devolution of citizenship speaks volumes about where we are today and where we […]
The Classicist: Destroying Culture
VDH and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the destruction of civic culture, the return of tribalism, attacks on the middle class, the recall of Newsom, faulty science, and the loss of shame. A composition picture!
Civilization Requires Deterrence
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Deterrence is the ancient ability to scare somebody off from hurting you, your friends, or your interests—without a major war. Desire peace? Then be prepared for war. Or so the Romans believed. It’s an easily understood concept in the abstract. But deterrence still remains a mystical quality in the concrete […]
Afghanistan’s Past, Present, and Future
General H. R. McMaster and military historian Victor Davis Hanson are both senior fellows at the Hoover Institution. In this frank, no-holds-barred conversation, they discuss the United States’ mission in Afghanistan: how it began, how it was conducted, and its ignominious end.
The Traditionalist: Calling Out the Elite
Join VDH and cohost Jack Fowler as they examine the matters of General Milley, nuclear pacts, border crisis, economic stagnation, and Minaj’s message of COVID misinformation.
The Afghanistization of America
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The United States should be at its pinnacle of strength. It still produces more goods and services than any other nation—China included, which has a population over four times as large. Its fuel and food industries are globally preeminent, as are its graduate science, computer, engineering, medical, and technology university […]
Week In Review: Commentary, Classics and History
VDH produced varied material these last two weeks. The podcasts have commentary on contemporary events. There is a section on the value of Classics to education. And, finally, the Ultra content is uploading so the historical series on WWII myths is included here – this last requires a subscription. View the Issue
The Culturalist: From Milley to Minaj
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson as he talks with cohost Sami Winc on the transgressions of General Milley and aggressions of Nicki Minaj.
‘Science,’ They Said
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The scientific method used to govern much of popular American thinking. In empirical fashion scientists advised us to examine evidence and data, and then by induction come to rational hypotheses. The enemies of “science” were politics, superstition, bias, and deduction. Yet we are now returning to our version of medieval alchemy […]