VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part Four
An Afghanistan Postscript There are real foreign policy consequences for a society adrift from its origins and foundational principles of citizenship. So, it was only a matter of time until the US had a rendezvous with tragedy abroad given the unhinged assumptions it was operating upon at home. I list a few symptoms, in no […]
The Vince Coglianese Show – Dr Victor Davis Hanson – 08.19.21
Vince Coglianese speaks with Dr Victor Davis Hanson, Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Stanford.
President Biden’s a Colossal Failure
From the Afghanistan crisis, the border disaster, his foreign policy fiasco, and inflation; does it seem like everything that Joe Biden touches turns to dross? Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Victor Davis Hanson, joins Dana to evaluate the Afghanistan disaster, and Hanson explains how everything Joe Biden has touched since becoming President has turned to dross.
Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Joe Biden’s scripted or no-questions press conferences, and the clean-up afterward by Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Jen Psaki, have been some of the most misleading episodes in modern presidential history—mostly in what was not said rather than was exaggerated, warped, and misrepresented. Biden as Commander-in-Chief The more Joe […]
VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson // Historian’s Corner All of these ad hoc challenges share a common symptom, the steady erosion of the chief tenets of citizenship. The diminution of the middle class, the porousness of our borders, and the dangerous idea that race is incidental not essential to who we are, occur almost organically. It is […]
The Classicist: Let Us Have Done With You
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Newsom’s recall, Larry Elder’s odds, the cultural revolution and the elite, and “Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation.” There is a short tribute to Donald Kagan who recently passed away at the end.
Matters Of Policy & Politics: America After The Trump Presidency
Donald Trump’s gone (from office) but not forgotten as many of the elements that contributed to his political ascent – immigration, overseas entanglements, cultural divide – are as potent as ever. Victor Davis Hanson, the Hoover Institution’s Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, discusses Trump’s presence in the political landscape and the prospects of “Trumpism” […]
Does America Still Work
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness For nearly two years, Americans have engaged in a great woke experiment of cannibalizing themselves. American civilization has invested massive labor, capital, and time in an effort constantly to flagellate itself for not being perfect. Yet neither America’s resilience nor its resources are infinite. We are now beginning to […]
VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson // Historian’s Corner Yet rarely do we connect America’s malaise, its divisions, and its obsessions with national decline, to a loss of citizenship—the original glue that once held together the American experiment. Perhaps we assume that a “citizen” is a natural concept that arose organically with the ascent of civilization itself. It […]
The Traditionalist: The Mess of Getting Out
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the exit from Afghanistan, the regional implications and obligations of the US. Plus, the investigation of the January 6 Capitol riot shows no evidence of insurrection..
VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part One
Victor Davis Hanson // Historian’s Corner In its 245th year has America become dangerously divided or just chaotic—or both? More Americans are currently concluding that their country either does not work as it once did, or works all too well in ways that are frightening. In a recent five-day period in California’s Central Valley, where I […]
The Drossy Touch of Joe Biden
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Almost everything Joe Biden has touched since entering office has turned to dross. None of his blame-gaming, none of his distortions, none of his fantasies and unreality can mask that truth. The Afghan Catastrophe Seven months ago, Afghanistan was relatively quiet—with about 10,000 vestigial NATO troops, including 2,500 Americans, […]
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation In Just A Few Months
Part Four: Steps 9-10 Erase Customs and Traditions Ending a nation requires discrediting its past. Start with Year Zero reinvention. That is, 1776 and 1787-9 are no longer our foundational dates. Instead 1619, a made-up date supposedly when the first African-American slave stepped onto North America, marks the foul birth of the now despised country, […]
The Traditionalist: Special on Afghanistan
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the current events in Afghanistan.
Ripples of Kabul
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties evaporated in a few hours in the encirclement of Kabul. Enlistees apparently calculated that their own meager chances with the premodern Taliban were still better than fighting as a dependency of the postmodern […]
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation in Just a Few Months
Part Three: Steps 6-8. VI. Trash the Productive Class Why are frackers considered not just polluters, but near criminal enemies of the planet? Thanks to them, abundant natural gas has reduced US carbon footprints in a manner that exceeds those nations in the Paris Climate Accord. Thanks to them, the US has no strategic interests […]
The Traditionalist: Investigations of John Solomon
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Join Victor Davis Hanson as he interviews investigative reporter John Solomon on the investigations of FBI misconduct, Hunter Biden’s computers, the Clinton uranium deal, and the whistleblower plus Vindman and more. It’s an exhaustive conversation. Listen in.
Are We in a Revolution and Don’t Even Know It?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Institutions are being absorbed not just by the woke apparat, but by an array of ideologies that seeks to destroy them. The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of exempted riots, the election year, and the […]