VDH UltraConservatives and Ukraine—Four Views, Both Right and Wrong: Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner There are four schools of conservative thought in Ukraine. Alternative View #1: Realist Deterrence Putin is a thug—period. Putin violated global norms. Putin is getting thousands killed for some stupid irredentist dream of restoring a lost Russian Empire. So, he must be deterred. He must be stopped. He must be […]
Strength and Deterrence
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine the war in Ukraine, from the inspiring Ukrainian war effort to Volodymyr Zelensky’s record, Putin’s choices, and the Left’s agenda which is the antithesis of strength and deterrence.
Biden Is the Most Dangerous Radical
Victor Davis Hanson, a remarkably prescient and accurate historian, gives his candid assessment of President Biden’s first year in power.
VDH UltraHow Putin Invaded. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Have We Learned Anything from Ukraine? 6) We have a 79-year-old impaired president and a vice president who is cogent but scarier. The former was nominated by the Democrats’ late primary season terror of woke candidates, the latter was the woke payoff for Biden’s nomination. Both nonentities likely convince Putin […]
The Crowded Road to Kyiv
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One of the oddest commentaries about the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the boilerplate reaction that “borders can’t change in modern Europe” or “this does not happen in the 21st century.” But why in the world should the 21st century be exempt from the pathologies of the past 20 centuries? […]
Thucydides Our Historian
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk with Sami Winc about Thucydides and moments in his History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’ funeral oration, the revolt of Mitylene, civil war at Corcira, and the Melian Dialogue.
From Ukraine to California
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Ukraine crisis and California’s crises. They finish with J.K. Rowlings and the culture wars.
VDH UltraHow Putin Invaded. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner Have We Learned Anything from Ukraine? We know why Putin invaded Ukraine: he wants to restore the borders of the old Soviet Union and with them the power and glory of a lost empire that had 100 million more people and nearly 30 percent more of the territory than Russia […]
Domestic Dystopia
Transgender athletes, China connections, San Francisco recall, African-American unemployment: listen to analysis by Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler. They finish with polls showing the effects of Left dystopia on the electorate.
Putin’s Predictabilities
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For all his caginess, dissimulation, and opportunism, Vladimir Putin is more or less predictable. Putin’s aims? The Russian president’s two-decade dilemma has been how to reclaim the prestige and power of the former Soviet Union—but with only 75 percent of his country’s former territory and 140 million fewer people. When […]
VDH UltraThe Most Dangerous People in America. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet So the bicoastal classes—the West that looks out on Asia, the East that is tied to the EU—feel their brains, their cattle-brand stamped degrees, their money, and their tastes have advanced them to Eloi status. Some are certainly brilliant and explain much of the current American GDP. That said, many […]
A Helpless, Weeping Child and Other International Issues
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore the motives of Putin, the ideas of Conservative nationalism, Trudeau’s folly, Jan. 6 or the emptiness of the Left agenda, and finally Hillary’s crimes exposed by the Durham Investigation.
VDH UltraThe Most Dangerous People in America. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The elite bicoastal and professional Left are strange creatures—a peculiar hothouse species of American plant that has adapted to a particular time and place in American history. They either cheered on or were indifferent to the damage of 120-days of arson, riot, looting, death, assault, and occupation of downtown property […]
VDH talks with Dr. Saad
Topics covered include the Greek Miracle, classics, philosophy, the state of academia, American politics, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama, consilience, and the value of practical knowledge among other themes.
Jessie Waters Interviews VDH
Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson has updates on the modern left and right on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
The Gathering Storm in the West
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Canada is now governed by absurdism, and it is symptomatic of an ailing Western elite. Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week invoked martial law to arrest and financially destroy truckers on the charge that their largely peaceful protests are “dismantling the Canadian economy” that had already been dismantled […]
VDH UltraFive Realities We Dare Not Speak
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner 1. We Have No Border An open border is destroying the United States. Just under two million illegal aliens crossed into the United States from the most impoverished areas in the world. They arrive in large part without English, capital, skills, high-school diplomas, background checks, vaccinations, or COVID-tests. They arrived […]
Hillary Clinton’s Greatest Masterpiece
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Hillary Clinton’s never-ending shenanigans in 2015-2016 could be summarized as an attempted slow-motion coup. Four years of national hysteria, a divided nation, and dangerous new tensions with Russia were some of the wages of Clinton’s machinations. Clinton hired a British national and ex-spy, Christopher Steele, to compile dirt on her […]
The Elite’s Downfall and the Truckers’ Uprising
Jack and Victor talk about the elite’s accomplishments, the Canadian truckers’ idealism and American’s confidence in the military.
VDH UltraStability, Once Lost, is Hard to Regain. Part Two
Victor Davis HansonHistorian’s Corner Gas and Oil Think back 13 months ago. Gas and diesel fuel were about half the price they are now. America was de facto energy independent, which was psychologically reassuring to the American public. Domestically produced fuels invigorated the economy. Commuters saved collectively billions of dollars in annual fuel costs. There […]