Trouble Here and in England
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about trouble at 10 Downing Street, a crime wave in the US, Putin’s cost-benefit analysis, and what happened to BLM leadership and why.
VDH UltraThe Wages of Woke Ignorance. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Education is a zero-sum game. Every decision to read one book entails not reading another. For every language mastered, yet another is shorted. What to study is as important as studying anything at all. Ars longa, vita brevis. Woke is many things—Marxist, nihilist, cruel, incoherent, and especially careerist and grifting. But we […]
Zucker, Truckers, and Things That Make You Pucker
A look at the popular dissatisfaction with the direction of America, Tuckers protest in Canada, the Zucker resignation, Whoopi’s transgressions, and Spotify wars. Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler.
VDH UltraA Child’s Garden of Animals. Mr. Possum and His Pecan Tree. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson As I said, I used to hunt at the woodpile and usually at sunset. One early evening, a huge “thing” broke out of the woodpile. I assumed it was some sort of coyote (distance was only 40 yards, but the wood pile and lengthy shadows camouflaged the target.) I shot once and […]
Our Elite Is No Elite at All
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness An elite is always variously defined. The ideal elites, as ancient philosophers argued, were a “natural elite” due to their exemplary character, aptitude, and work ethic. Understandably, a towering few ascended from all walks of life to positions of power, influence, and occasional wealth. But such a natural meritocracy, for […]
1960s: Looking Back and Forward at Counter-Culture
Inspired by recent critique of Joe Rogan by artist Neil Young, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc take us back to the 1960s where Young was a leader in the music scene of counter-culture.
VDH UltraA Child’s Garden of Animals. Mr. Possum and His Pecan Tree. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden I think I was six or seven before I fully realized the farm was swarming with opossums. Given they were nocturnal creatures, I never saw one—until one day sometime around 1960, my grandfather asked us to go the henhouse near the barn and collect eggs. This time I noticed […]
Leaks, Protests and Party Politics
Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc on the week’s stories: leaks on Hunter Biden’s Burisma ties and on the disastrous pull-out from Afghanistan, the Canadian truckers protest, and inside the Republic party.
Russian Appeasement Was a Left Wing Monopoly
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness One way of understanding the 2009-2014 Obama Administration policy of “reset” with Vladimir Putin’s Russia is to recall two iconic incidents. The first was the 2009 “reset.” Newly appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that she would pursue a “reset” détente with Russia. America would relax the prior Bush […]
Crises: From Ukraine to the University
The Ukraine crisis tests NATO, Wokism devastates culture, and universities are destroying a generation: all this and more with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler.
VDH UltraThe Ukraine Scab and the Putrid Wound Beneath. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Russians do not fear America. During the Obama-Biden years of Russian “reset,” the United States appeased Vladimir Putin. It dismantled missile defense in Eastern Europe and invited Russia into the Middle East. Reset ended with the Russian invasions of eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Then America went to the other extreme of […]
Symptoms of a Breakdown
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and his cohost Jack Fowler discussing the impact of illegal immigration, the political significance of the candidate to replace Breyer, and 2020 emails that show Wuhan lab fabrication of the deadly Covid19 Virus.
VDH UltraThe Ukraine Scab and the Putrid Wound Beneath. Part One.
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Americans are struggling to find a way to deter Vladimir Putin’s Russia from gobbling up Ukraine and then eyeing the Baltic States next. Most of us see Putin as a thug who will do anything to recreate the borders of the Soviet Union, unless he is deterred. But we acknowledge […]
Joe Biden and the Uses of Nihilism
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Chaos is the new, the intentional, normal. A pandemic of nihilism has been unleashed upon the land. As in Lord of the Flies, when laws, rules, protocols, traditions, and customs are mocked and dismantled, primitive human nature in the raw is unleashed. Madness now reigns in every quarter, from the […]
Table Talk
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk with Sami Winc about the Plutarch (46-119AD), his work and his legacy.
Ukraine In Crisis: Who Will Help?
Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc talk about the Russia/ Ukraine crisis and finish up with a mention of Neil Young’s boycott of spotify.
VDH UltraWords Matter: We Are Now Well Beyond Nihilism and Reaching Systems Collapse. Part II
The Governor of Oceania by Victor Davis Hanson Imagine you were governor of California. And the embattled and robbed Union Pacific railroad was threatening to curtail rail operations in and out of the largest port in the United States at Los Angeles and associated rail hubs. It complains that trains could not pass-through the city […]
Why Putin Has Not Been Deterred
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Americans want an autonomous Ukraine to survive. They hope the West can stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strangulation of both Ukraine and NATO. Yet Americans do not want their troops to venture across the world to Europe’s backyard to fight nuclear Russia to ensure that Ukraine stays independent. Most Americans […]
VDH UltraWords Matter: We Are Now Well Beyond Nihilism and Reaching Systems Collapse. Part I
An Arrest Warrant is a “REAL” ID? by Victor Davis Hanson Apparently, the Biden administration faced a dilemma. When you let in nearly two million illegal aliens within a fiscal year, and destroy all immigration law as we know it, how do you still manage to ensure new arrivals inclusion and equity? Or more specifically, […]
Upside Down and Inside Out
Biden’s press conference confuses, election reform and Build Back Better struggle, Biden’s family is more indictable than Trump’s, what if Republicans did what Democrats have done: listen to this and more with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler.