VDH UltraSorting out the Strange Mess of Biden, NATO, Putin, Trump, and Ukraine; Part One
Historian’s Corner Victor Davis Hanson Dear Ultra Readers, Could you please help figure out the following confusion about the Ukraine mess as Putin ratchets up the pressure on Ukraine? We were once told by our Washington grandees that Trump was variously Putin’s “puppet” (Hillary Clinton), a Russian “asset” (James Clapper), and “treasonous” (John Brennan). Who […]
The Classicist: Blue State Blues
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss policy failures in blue states, media bias with no bounds, and blaming racism as an elite conceit.
Woke Got What It Wanted — and Then What?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The woke movement was giddy after January 20, 2021. The Left controlled both houses of Congress. Joe Biden was drafted as the necessary veneer of 1980s Democratic normality to ram through an otherwise hard Left agenda. All the major cultural, financial, economic, entertainment, and media institutions had played various roles […]
VDH UltraThe Critical Race Rhetoric Versus the Reality on the Street
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The Kenosha/Waukesha contrast summed up the great abyss between BLM/Woke/Media rhetoric and the soaring crime reality on the street. The former was hyped as race when it was not, the latter was written off as nonracial when it was. Rittenhouse should have never been arrested; Brooks should never have been […]
The Traditionalist: What’s Wrong With the Cuomos and Other Political Puzzles
Listen as Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler unravel Fauci’s hubris, the Cuomo filial assist, CEOs who praise China, Roe v. Wade in the Supreme Court, and free speech on campus.
VDH UltraGenerations upon Generations of Red-tail Hawks
Victor Davis Hanson A Child’s Garden of Animals In 1959 I first noticed that nesting high in the cottonwoods surrounding our artesian pond (long since dried up and in 2005 sold off) there were “big” birds. My father explained they were a pair of red-tailed hawks. My maternal grandfather added in details (he was born […]
Misremembering Pearl Harbor
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Most Americans once were mostly in agreement about what happened on December 7, 1941, 80 years ago this year. But not so much now, given either the neglect of America’s past in the schools or woke revisionism at odds with the truth. The Pacific war that followed Pearl Harbor was […]
Week In Review
Click Here to access VDH’s “Week In Review.” Victor wrote two series for “VDH Ultra” content which are must reads, and we have two weeks of American Greatness included below. We hope you enjoy the podcasts as always – the most recent week’s episodes are linked in this newsletter. We missed two weeks and, of […]
C-SPAN In Depth December 5 with Victor Davis Hanson
Author and historian Victor Davis Hanson talks and takes calls about war, politics and citizenship in the United States. Mr. Hanson’s many books include “The Second World Wars,” “The Case for Trump,” and his latest “The Dying Citizen.” Program ID: 515783-1 Category: Call-In Format: Call-In Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States Will Air: Dec […]
The Agrarian
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson reminisce about life on the farm and the state of modern agriculture with cohost Sami Winc.
Courts and Cases
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about Miranda Devine’s new book The Laptop from Hell, how court cases are used for political advantage, and Kamala Harris’ vice presidency.
VDH UltraLearning from Months of Chaos. Part Three
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Race. The recent verdicts in the Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases remind us that in the post-OJ age, the current jury system usually works well enough—given the former was rightly found innocent of murder and the killers of the latter probably had insufficient cause to justify lethal force based on […]
Third Worldizing America
Victor Davis HansonAmerican Greatness In a recent online exchange, the YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s—hole of a city.” The multimillionaire actor Seth Rogen chastised Neistat for his anger. Rogen claimed that a car’s contents […]
The Classicist: Now What?
Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler discusses Putin’s Russia and losing deterrence, criminals targeting the stores of the wealthy, 2022 election predictions, and why citizens are leaving Blue states for Red.
VDH UltraLearning from Months of Chaos. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet Fuel. A year ago, gas and heating fuels were cheap. They now have gone up on average 60 percent, far higher in places like California. Biden, after cancelling pipelines, putting federal lands off limits to fracking and horizontal drilling, promising new taxes and regulations on fossil-fuel development, and cutting back […]
A Writer Like No Other: The Dying Citizen
Terry Scambray American Thinker The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America, by Victor Davis Hanson. Basic Books, 2021. 346 pp. Defining terms is always a good place to begin a conversation and Victor Davis Hanson’s The Dying Citizen weaves a rich definition of citizenship into his discussion […]
VDH UltraLearning from Months of Chaos. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet We have suffered an unfortunate ten months under Joe Biden, but also received a bitter and valuable reminder of the leftwing gods who failed. Here are some lessons Biden has offered since his inauguration. The common ideological theme of these disasters is an arrogant disavowal of unchanging human nature. Put […]
The Traditionalist: Looking for Straight Talk
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they talk over the new COVID strain, Black Friday, China’s image and power, Black Tuesday in Greece, the non-citizen voters, and Joe Biden’s Thanksgiving on Nantucket.
A Tale of Two Cities: Kenosha v. Waukesha
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Both Wisconsin towns, Kenosha, and Waukesha, about 50 miles apart by car, were the recent sites of multiple deaths. The violence in both made national news. Yet in contradictory ways both reflected the common themes of America’s current legal, media, and societal corruption. The relevant public prosecutors in both were […]
A Pageant To a Soldier’s Training
We are all thankful for our soldiers-at-arms. Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc examine Cortez’s defeat of the Aztecs and the 2012 Benghazi attack on 911 — captivating tales of skill, duty and solidarity.