The Classicist: Morality and Politics
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler pay tribute to George Orwell on the 70th adversity of the publication of “1984.” The Left’s revolution assails the middle class and depends on keeping the COVID crisis alive.
Stanford Book Club
Victor Davis Hanson talks to Bill Whalen about “The Dying Citizen,” its ideas and its production.
Can America survive progressives’ attacks on its origins and values?
Victor Davis Hanson The New York Post Over the last two years, progressive critics have casually attacked the origins, nature and values of American society. Is the idea of America so indestructible that it can weather any assault? The foundational dates of America — the signing in 1776 of the Declaration of Independence and in […]
VDH UltraReal People Behind the Open Borders Rhetoric
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Corner We talk nonchalantly of an open border, of “comprehensive immigration reform.” But we forget there are lives of the innocent transformed and sometimes wrecked by allowing thousands of foreign nationals without audit to enter the U.S. illegally and to reside here unlawfully, while we the host has lost all confidence […]
The Dangerous, Diminishing Power of the Independent American Citizen
Victor Davis Hanson Fox News The last two years seem to have been one continual crisis—well aside from the coronavirus pandemic. The spiraling prices of cars, gas, appliances, lumber, homes, and food are revisiting the miseries of the 1970s. Anarchy defines the border. A new divisive tribalism centers on “critical race theory.” Unelected Washington grandees in the CIA, FBI, […]
VDH UltraThe New Nullificationers—or When Laws Mean Nothing
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet We now have about 500-600 jurisdictions that are “sanctuary” cities, counties, and entire states—where progressive neo-Confederates have declared that federal law is now null and void in their safe spaces. But perhaps the most recent and dramatic instance of the nullification of state and local laws—“de facto nullification” as a […]
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.
VDH UltraRevolution without the Middle Class
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The beleaguered middle class, especially those of the suburbs, for the most part did not join rioting radicalized youths and inner-city minorities in the violence, looting, and destruction, even as their businesses were often targeted, and jobs lost. Some small stores that had somehow endured the two months of shutdowns, […]
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 […]
VDH UltraWhat Made Us Go Crazy? Part Two:
The Wages of Inert Citizenship The world outside or before the U.S. was and is not a pretty thing. Even in rare consensual societies, factions and inequality under the law persisted—whether the plebs and populares of early Republican Rome, the greens and blues of Justinian’s Constantinople, or the Guelphs and Ghibellines of thirteenth-century Florence. Belonging […]
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.
VDH UltraWhat Made Us Go Crazy? Part One:
Ignorance of What America Was and Is As the 2020 election season began, the New York Times promised its readers a recalibration of American history called “The 1619 Project.” The ensuing series of essays and media kits had a twofold agenda. One was to rewrite the origins of American history as the four-century foreign intrusion […]
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