Sovietization of American Life: A Closer Look
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc start this episode with some thoughts on the very antithesis of American life: Israel. Then they explore all the ways that American life is beginning to resemble aspects of the Soviet Union or Mao’s China.
The Sound of Gun Fire
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they talk about things that signal a change: Biden’s poll numbers and the midterm elections, a “woke” revolution starting to show strain, the meaning of Uvalde, and an update on the Ukraine.
VDH UltraShrugging at the Intolerable. Part One.
Victor Davis Hanson One day Americans will look back at the nightmare of the last two years—COVID, the lockdowns, the riots, the 102 million mail-in ballots, the Biden catastrophe, the utter lawlessness, and the woke revolution—and properly understand it as one of the strangest and most dangerous periods in their modern history. The toll will […]
Everything and Nothing or the Progressive Mind
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk about current events with cohost Jack Fowler: pride month and the military, AOC’s new victim status, the border, California’s water, and Trumpology.
The Subordinate Citizen
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry. Anxieties swept the group as Israeli testers swabbed them. Anyone testing positive would […]
VDH UltraAmerica on the Razor’s Edge. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson How Did It All Go to Hell—So Quickly? Where such pessimism? I have been abroad for ten days and trying to see America as others do not in America and talk and listen to them. And the observers are bewildered, as if our country is committing a two-year suicide. I confess too […]
A Country’s Destiny Is Self-Created
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler, as they talk about Israel, the Texas shooting, Peter Navarro arrest, the Biden cabinet, and the economy.
VDH UltraAmerica on the Razor’s Edge. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson How Did It All Go to Hell—So Quickly? Of course, the last 17 disastrous months did not leap from the head of Zeus. Envision them as a pathology that was deeply embedded in the American immune system, one that finally turned into a near fatal illness after the wearied antibodies were finally […]
The Sovietization of American Life
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One day historians will look back at the period beginning with the COVID lockdowns of spring 2020 through the midterm elections of 2022 to understand how America for over two years lost its collective mind and turned into something unrecognizable and antithetical to its founding principles. “Sovietization” is perhaps the […]
Current and Past Military Strategies
In the latest of many pre-recorded podcasts while Victor is touring in Israel, Jack Fowler reads listener questions on military strategies around the world including China, Germany, Russia, Israel, and Japan.
Yom Kippur War and More
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson explain the Yom Kippur War, Israel and the Arab states, and the future of Israel–cohosted by Sami Winc.
VDH UltraIsraeli Reflections (From Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem)
Victor Davis Hanson An Outsider’s Superficial Impressions For a supposed global recession, COVID pandemic, and war in Ukraine, Israel seems booming. Traffic is snarled. Tourist spots are full. Prices are high. People are upbeat. We talk about the ex-nihilo boom of modern China from a Maoist hellhole to a gleaming autocracy. But that was material […]
Trumpology
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Donald Trump has signaled he will announce his presidential intentions after the November midterm elections. Yet his record of endorsements is quite mixed. By the sheer numbers of winning primary candidates his stamp of approval is impressive, but in a few of the most important races, not so much. The […]
VDH UltraThe Cycles of Dogs, Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals The Queensland principate followed. I found one at the pound and gave him to my father. He sat on the console of his truck and toured the farm every day. This was about the time of Road Warrior and “Breaker” looked exactly like Mad Max’s pet. At […]
Bureaucracy, Plutocracy, and Hypocrisy
In the latest of many pre-recorded podcasts while Victor is touring in Israel, Jack Fowler reads listener questions on Education, the Monarchy, Transgender people, and how to convince the Left they are the ones responsible for current problems of today.
VDH UltraThe Cycles of Dogs, Part One
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals I have had “several” dogs at once for most of my life on the farm, save the period I was at the universities and lived abroad. My parents handled them then. Looking back, I’ve noticed that we all went through “cycles” of particular breeds. My earliest ownership […]
What Now, Ukraine?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness It was supposed to be a clear-cut, unambiguous invasion. Vladimir Putin’s much larger, richer, and more bellicose Russia staged a shock-and-awe attack on a much smaller, poorer Ukraine. He intended to decapitate the government in Kyiv. Then he would annex the eastern half of the country, and quickly consolidate his […]
The Six-Day War and More on Israel
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Israel’s Six-Day War in 1967 and other attendant topics.
VDH UltraNeutroning America, Part Two
Victor Davis HansonHistorian’s Corner In these three dark years, the military, especially the retired generals and admirals, soon were politicized as well. Suddenly it became normal to smear the commander in chief as Nazi-like, a Mussolini, or similar to the architects of Birkenau. It was as if the Uniform Code of Military Justice went the […]
Cabinet of Dunces
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss midterm elections, the Durham investigation, Biden’s cabinet, and the Left’s lies which wear on us all.