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 […]
Street People, Masks and Crackpipes
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler talk over the streets of San Francisco, Stacey Abram’s call racism, the politics of masks, crack pipes and Kamala’s first trip to Europe.
VDH UltraStability, Once Lost, is Hard to Regain. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Deterrence Deterrence is the classical effort to scare somebody off from attacking you, or your interests—without a major conflict. It is hard to obtain and predicated on being predictable in reacting to aggression, while remaining unpredictable in the level of violence employed. Deterrence can be lost by ennui and becoming transparently passive, […]
Joe Biden, Alchemist
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Medieval alchemists sought to turn base metals into precious metals like gold. The more the alchemists bumped into the reality that gold was an element, the more desperately they sought to find fantastic ways to fabricate the rare element out of nothing. Joe Biden operates on the same alchemist principles. […]
Why Ideology Is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What ultimately destroyed the evil empires of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were bankrupt dogmas. Crackpot ideology destroyed free expression. It ruined meritocracy and ensured unequal application of the laws—and so paved the way for far worse. The Nazi idea of a superior Aryan race adjudicated everything from physics to […]
Under the Rock of History
In the Saturday edition, Victor Davis Hanson talks about many misconceptions of World War II and some modern misconception about inflations, Obama, and Biden. Listen in with cohost Sami Winc.
Surveillance, Supreme Court, Censorship and More
In their Friday news round-up, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the surveillance of congressmen after Jan. 6, Supreme Court justices, big tech censorship, Pelosi’s warning of “ruthless” Chinese, illegal immigration, and a Republican coalition.
VDH UltraThe Wages of Woke Ignorance. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Historian’s Corner The 1619 idea was designed to provoke, not instruct, and, of course, make Ms. Jones “controversial.” 1619 would have vanished with easy refutation—except the New York Times sponsored the ruse. And the rest is history. The powers of relativism were invoked (e.g., “who is to say that one date is […]