History Should Be Our Guide in Ukraine
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There are several historical referents we should keep in mind about the Ukraine war. First, no-fly zones. Lots of Westerners are calling for NATO aircraft to establish a no-fly zone above Ukraine to stop Russian bombing of Ukrainian cities. That is a terrible idea. Russian planes can still launch missiles […]
Words, Slaps and Mishaps
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler chew on non-binary language, an Academy Award slap, BLM rioters v. police sentencing and censure, and rising gas prices.
VDH UltraWalking the Ukrainian Tightrope. Part Two, 5-7.
Victor Davis HansonHistorian’s Corner Here are three more paradoxes and pitfalls to be avoided in the Ukraine War. 5. Zelensky has a right to feel furious that he cannot stop the aerial bombardment of his nation, and the ease so far with which Russian missiles and bombs flatten his cities. It may indeed be wise […]
Forgetting the Middle Class Is Everything
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler reveal the necessity of the middle class in their analysis of Biden’s speech and gaffes, the madness of green and other policies, the elite attitudes about a food crisis coming, and the ending of the US Marine Corps’ training.
VDH UltraWalking the Ukrainian Tightrope. Part One, 1-4.
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner We hear daily dozens of Ukrainian war contradictions. One news show seems at odds on the war with the one following it—which is healthy. Corrupt CNN suddenly believes it is George Patton. MSNBC sounds like Uncle Billy Sherman marching through Georgia, furious that we are not triggering World War III […]
The Sheer Madness of Today’s Left
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness With that exclamation, director David Lean ended his epic film about a dutiful but vainglorious British officer who sought to display to his Japanese captors superior British discipline and morale in a prisoner of war camp. As proof of British engineering superiority, he pursues his agendas by ordering his POWs […]
VDH Joins Jan Jekielek from The Epoch Times
This requires a paid subscription to Epoch Times and is well worth it. This link takes you to the ad link: Watch VDH on Epoch Times with Jan Jekielek Jan interviews Dr. Hanson on the Ukraine war from his ranch in the Central Valley.
Finding the Path Forward
In this Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about current events: Ukraine, Ketanji Brown Jackson, The COVID wind down, the Iran deal, and enclaves of knowledge in American education’s Dark Ages.
VDH UltraThe Thinning Veneer of a Thin Civilization. Part Two
Victor Davis HansonEeyore’s Corner So all the building blocks of a society, the hard work of centuries that separated civilization from barbarism, poverty, and death, these the Left either neglected as superfluous or attacked as antithetical to its utopian visions. Their targets were often the stuff of life, what separated a decent human society from […]
The Excess of Truth
This time Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about student debt, Zelensky’s accusatory efforts to solicit help, Iran, the spike in anti-Semitism, and transgendered in sports.
The Real ‘Reset’ Is Coming
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Joe Biden believes the Ukraine war will mark the start of a “new world order.” In the middle of the COVID global pandemic, Klaus Schwab and global elites likewise announced a “Great Reset.” Accordingly, the nations of the world would have to surrender their sovereignty to an international body of […]
VDH UltraThe Thinning Veneer of a Thin Civilization. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Corner Was the idea of zero-interest rates, printing money, running up multi-trillion-dollar deficits, and paying millions not to work—to create prosperity and to excise that evil, the monetary seriousness of the ghost of Milton Friedman? Did Biden believe his inflation would make all of us kings, or was it that he […]
Why Free Speech Is So Costly to Republicans
Victor Davis Hanson and host Jack Fowler mull over topics like the recent shoot out at the border, the protest at Yale Law School, America’s Free Speech problem, the beauty of tractors, and the left controlling academia.
VDH UltraBidenism Grows Toxic. Part One
Victor Davis HansonEeyore’s Corner Once affluent and leisured societies achieve postmodern complacency, watch out! Survival leads to surfeit that results in utopianism that ends in a reversion to tribalism, anarchy, and chaos—and a return to the very primitivism from which a society once advanced. So the Greeks thought civilizations aged like people, through muscular adolescence, […]
The mythologies of Black Lives Matter
Victor Davis HansonThe New Criterion On the development of the activist movement Polls taken in November 2021 showed a sharp drop in the popularity of the Black Lives Matter movement that had once peaked in June 2020 at over 50 percent public approval. The recent liberal Civiqs survey, commissioned by the hard-Left website Daily Kos, […]
Conspirators in Their Own Words
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For the last five years, the Left—defined as the fusion of the mainstream media, Silicon Valley, the radical new Democratic Party, and the vestigial Hillary Clinton machine—has crafted all sorts of conspiracies to destroy their perceived conservative enemies. Their method has focused on one major projection: alleging conspiracy on the […]
Saturday Serendipity
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the difference between Greek and Latin languages, the history of aircraft carriers in the world, and the different invasions of Russia.
From Ukraine to Actium
In the Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about the war in Ukraine, Jussie Smollett, Oil Prices and the Battle of Actium.