The Culturalist: Election Special
Victor Davis Hanson reflects on the Tuesday (Nov. 2) election results in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York with cohost Sami Winc.
Victor Davis Hanson Diagnoses the Dying Citizen on Uncommon Knowledge
Dr. Hanson joins Peter Robinson in this interview which covers a wide spectrum of topics and references, including the Acts of the Apostles, immigration, Jim Crow laws, primary tribal identities, the suburban everyman, the shrinking middle class, and JFK’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech.
Bold and Blunt: America’s Been Infiltrated by ‘Bolsheviks’
Victor Davis Hanson notes that today’s anti-America forces aren’t simply protesting outside the government buildings. They’ve infiltrated the systems and work within the systems they once protested, and that makes them all the more dangerous to America’s constitution, to America’s democratic-republic, and to liberty-loving American citizens.
VDH Ultra20 Words That Mean Nothing
Victor Davis Hanson Words Matter cis—fancy Latin preposition used by those who know no Latin class—a now taboo word that died around 2020 cultural appropriation—not dying your hair blond dark money—never used again since it is now all leftwing diversity—segregation revival equality—far worse than “inequality” equity—capitalism for me, Marxism for you fragility—a slur used by […]
Last Night’s Election: Why Glenn Youngkin Won
Victor Davis Hanson Blade of Perseus Yes, the Glenn Youngkin campaign was supercharged by local and state issues. No Virginians, like no Americans, want to be called racists. In fact, they voted in their first African American and Latino statewide elected officials—classical anti-racism ignoring the “anti-racism” racism of the Left. Ditto the New York mayor’s […]
Where are Biden and Merkel’s sanctions against Putin’s gas weapon?
Paul Roderick Gregory // The Hill In July, President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to reimpose sanctions if Vladimir Putin used gas as a “geopolitical weapon.” This agreement constituted a concession in return for Biden’s waiver of sanctions on Nord Stream 2, which allowed its completion. Merkel had already vouched for continued […]
The Traditionalist: Of Things Citizens Grow Tired
Listen as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the Virginia gubernatorial race, deep state being exposed, and how citizens begin to resist. Book TV on CSPAN has his interview with Megyn Kelly out on November 7.
VDH UltraMore Thoughts on the 2020 Revolution
Here we are in the closing months of 2021, experiencing the most disastrous presidency since that of James Buchanan. Do we even remember life before COVID-19, when the Jacobinism of the Left was so looney, so venomous that its very contradictions and toxicity once upon a long time ago helped to keep it bay? Then […]
Who Eventually Won the Cold War
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Pause for a minute to recall the recent past: Did the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff unlawfully intervene in the chain of command to reroute decisions of nuclear weapon readiness through himself? Did he really contact his Chinese Communist counterpart to promise him that China would be warned of […]
VDH’s Week In Review
Week In Review Link Hello Readers, with so much material out about VDH’s The Dying Citizen, this is not an exhaustive list. It is enough for whiling away Sunday afternoon. I put the “VDH Ultra” material after his podcasts and before American Greatness, video and podcast interviews, articles by VDH and others about the new […]
In Defense of Citizenship
Daniel J. Mahoney National Review It is hard to dispute the claim that the United States is a political and social order in the midst of an immense crisis. The old political consensus in defense of free speech, especially political speech, has been shattered. The woke aim to “cancel” their opponents and to erase them […]
The Culturalist: Victory and Complexity
Join Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc in this examination of the accomplishments of France’s George Clemenceau and the cultural significance of Sophocles’ “Antigone.”
Victor Davis Hanson on the Megyn Kelly Show
Victor Davis Hanson talks at about minute 17:15 of the show to Megyn Kelly about his new book The Dying Citizen.
The Culturalist: Victory and Complexity
Join Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc in this examination of the accomplishments of France’s George Clemenceau and the cultural significance of Sophocles’ “Antigone.”
Americans Fight for Their Ancient Rights As Left Tries to Kill Citizenship
Victor Davis Hanson The Federalist How did our southern border simply vanish — in complete nullification of all federal immigration laws? Since when did our unelected leaders — Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, James Comey and Andrew McCabe, […]
The Culturalist: China Rising
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc on the ubiquitous presence of China on the world stage and in the US itself. What do we do with this octopus nation?
The Classicist: Squeezing the Lemon
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Jack Fowler about blue state/red state disparity, 2020 rioters who got what they wanted and all the chaos too, the January 6 Commission, the Steele interview, and California’s ban on small engines.
VDH UltraTribalism Meets the Plague and Beyond
Tribalism—and the fear to speak out against such racial, ethnic, or religious chauvinism—can at times prove deadly. During the late 2019 geneses of the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government initially suppressed all critical information about the virus’s severity. It destroyed key evidence of its likely birth, by insisting the virus first appeared in an open […]
The Ignoble Lie
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In a controversial passage in Plato’s Republic, Socrates introduced the idea of the “noble lie” (“gennaios pseudos”). A majestic fiction, he says, could sometimes serve society by persuading uninformed citizens of something good for them. Ever since, many prevaricators have used the excuse that they lied for the common good. Take Dr. […]
Point of View: With Guest Victor Davis Hanson
Kerby welcomes journalist Victor Davis Hanson. They will talk about Victor’s newest book – just released – The Dying Citizen.