Rhetoric’s Edge
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about current news and look at the cutting rhetoric in the recent Biden speech in Philadelphia. There seems little truth and far less reason for inciting citizens against MAGA supporters or Trump.
Post-Modern Rhetoric, Pre-Modern Culture
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to discuss the cases resulting from the racism hoaxes, the damage of rhetoric against whites, Queen Elizabeth’s critics, energy policy in California, and the inside view of a raisin harvest.
VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part Five
Victor Davis Hanson We lost two entire crops to unseasonable tropical storms and saved one from a deluge by “rolling all night long” with a crew of ten. (Even my 60-year-old dad was on his operated knees and my mom too.) When rain came in those days, health or age was no exemption from rolling. […]
Beyond the Blinkered Blueprint
Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler discusses Justice Robert’s defense of Supreme Court integrity, the Left’s bad old ideas, Fauci’s charades and university wokes destroying lives and culture, and Trump’s trajectory.
Ukraine with a Whimper or a Bang?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Russia started the war with Ukraine in late February with a shock-and-awe effort to grab Kyiv. It failed both to decapitate the government and absorb half the country in one fell swoop. Soon the conflict descended into a war of attrition in Eastern Ukraine over the occupied majority Russian-speaking borderlands. […]
VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part Four
Victor Davis Hanson The trays after picking then sat cooking for 8-12 days, depending on the heat and humidity, the quality of the picker, the height of the vine rows, and the nature of the soil (sandy meant quick drying, heavy loam not so much). Some perfectionist farmers then sent a crew to “turn” or […]
VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson As I said, I was a good picker but a lousy farmer inspector. Whether I yelled at the offender depended on whether he was young, male, and a gang banger (yes, demand a good job), or old, tired, and trying (no, let him pass). At ten I once said to my grandfather […]
To Bring Down a House of Cards
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler look at listeners questions on the Vietnam war, the decline of civilization, can decline be stopped, can woke destruction be reversed? Everyone needs to refuse to live by lies.
America Delira
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Travel abroad and or talk to pro-American foreigners here, and you will be surprised at what they say. It is not boilerplate anti-Americanism of the usual cheap Euro style. And their keen criticism is not just that we are $30 trillion in debt, dependent on China, with a corrupt elite, […]
Grand Strategy
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss military history, focusing on generals and strategists, while also assessing progress in the ongoing war in Ukraine.
VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson In those days of a half-century ago, there were one or two porta-potties at most at the end of the rows, overused and smelly by noon. (Many were “farm-made” of plywood and not so easily drained and cleaned.) Water canteens were often ill-kept by contractors. What dribbled out was usually hot and […]
The Weaker Power
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson as he answers listeners’ questions with cohost Jack Fowler: why not boycott China, what does VDH think of “Band of Brothers” and the historian’s craft, and thoughts on military strategy of the weaker power.
The World Wants No Part of Woke, But It’s Glad We Do
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgendered males. Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40 years. But it is considered racist to suggest that arrests, indictments, convictions, and incarcerations deter crime. Major U.S. downtowns almost overnight went from mostly safe […]
Strange Awakenings
Join Victor Davis Hanson’s conversation with cohost Sami Winc about elections, the Biden speech, Mikhail Gorbachev’s life, G-7 setting limits on purchases of Russian oil, and the UN’s report on China’s human rights violations against the Uyghur people.
VDH UltraHow the Old Breed Made a Raisin. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Raisins are dried grapes. For 100 years, Sun-Maid Raisins, the local co-op, insisted on dried Thompson seedless grapes, the green, seedless grapes you saw once in the store fresh (though in their natural smaller state, without being pumped up from the effects of gibberellic acid, stump and cane girdling, and weekly irrigation […]
VDH UltraAn Inferior Present Judges a Superior Past. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson Illegal aliens largely live in the homes of the vanished agrarians. In turn, they rent out the barns and sheds, and create compounds of 20-30 people, with 10-15 cars parked about. No sheriff, no county inspector, no building inspector dares to set foot on these old homesteads of now dead farmers. They […]
We Work With Our Hands
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler answer listener questions about agriculture, domestic and global, and our producers who make our lives possible, the ordinary worker.
How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There is no end of history. Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked for the common good through the ages—and to reject what in the past has failed abysmally. Bad and bankrupt ideas, protocols, and ideologies—like McCarthyism, communism, various cults, or fascism—resurface not because of their […]
Policies and Prospects of Our Woke Universities
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc this weekend for discussion of the current state of affairs in our universities. Where is a good education found?
VDH UltraAn Inferior Present Judges a Superior Past. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson So rote, habit, and the familiar were the secret to longevity. Anything that startled the body, the constitution, was seen as an infection, something that could warp a liver or heart, disrupt a healthy homeostasis. Getting on a plane, missing a connection, stressed to find another flight, crammed on with 150 other […]