VDH UltraReal People Behind the Open Borders Rhetoric
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Corner We talk nonchalantly of an open border, of “comprehensive immigration reform.” But we forget there are lives of the innocent transformed and sometimes wrecked by allowing thousands of foreign nationals without audit to enter the U.S. illegally and to reside here unlawfully, while we the host has lost all confidence […]
The Dangerous, Diminishing Power of the Independent American Citizen
Victor Davis Hanson Fox News The last two years seem to have been one continual crisis—well aside from the coronavirus pandemic. The spiraling prices of cars, gas, appliances, lumber, homes, and food are revisiting the miseries of the 1970s. Anarchy defines the border. A new divisive tribalism centers on “critical race theory.” Unelected Washington grandees in the CIA, FBI, […]
VDH UltraThe New Nullificationers—or When Laws Mean Nothing
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet We now have about 500-600 jurisdictions that are “sanctuary” cities, counties, and entire states—where progressive neo-Confederates have declared that federal law is now null and void in their safe spaces. But perhaps the most recent and dramatic instance of the nullification of state and local laws—“de facto nullification” as a […]
The Traditionalist: A Tsunami Is Coming
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk over Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, Gen. Milley’s testimony, and the Biden Administration debt and taxes. Citizens are starting to silently say “no mas!” and 2022 may see a swing back like never before.
Our Woke National Icons
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness As we watch events unfold in 2021, obvious questions about the fitness of our national leaders present themselves. Who are these new woke national icons and how did they come to lord it over the rest of us? Here are some observations by way of preliminary explanation. The Strategist Chairman […]
Week In Review
Citizenship, Orwell and Our Times The Dying Citizen, VDH’s new book, is out on October 5 this week. Enjoy the examination of citizenship and the threat of tribalism, bureaucracy, and globalization. The week’s work is still below.
The Culturalist: Our Satyricon
Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc on the ancient Roman novel “The Satyricon” and applies Petronius’ ideas to modern culture. First, VDH has a few words on General Milley’s recent testimony.
VDH UltraRevolution without the Middle Class
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The beleaguered middle class, especially those of the suburbs, for the most part did not join rioting radicalized youths and inner-city minorities in the violence, looting, and destruction, even as their businesses were often targeted, and jobs lost. Some small stores that had somehow endured the two months of shutdowns, […]
The Classicist: War
Victor Davis Hanson pays tribute to the late Angelo Codevilla and discusses General Milley’s transgressions in depth with cohost Jack Fowler.
Our Porcine Two-Legged Wokeists
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which […]
VDH UltraWhat Made Us Go Crazy? Part Two:
The Wages of Inert Citizenship The world outside or before the U.S. was and is not a pretty thing. Even in rare consensual societies, factions and inequality under the law persisted—whether the plebs and populares of early Republican Rome, the greens and blues of Justinian’s Constantinople, or the Guelphs and Ghibellines of thirteenth-century Florence. Belonging […]
The Traditionalist: Biden, Borders and Other Left Breaches
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler review current Progressive policy failures, the puzzling anti-Semitism, and the riddle that is Hunter Biden.
VDH UltraWhat Made Us Go Crazy? Part One:
Ignorance of What America Was and Is As the 2020 election season began, the New York Times promised its readers a recalibration of American history called “The 1619 Project.” The ensuing series of essays and media kits had a twofold agenda. One was to rewrite the origins of American history as the four-century foreign intrusion […]
The Symptoms of Our Insanity
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Think for a minute. When did we become a nation of socialist AOCs wearing “Tax the Rich” dresses to $35,000-a-ticket celebrity galas, without mandatory masks, while being served by masked servants—a now tired script from the Obama birthday bash crowd to the grandees at the Emmys? When did we discover […]
Week In Review: Reflections and Regressions
The Week in Review This week there is a great exchange between Victor Davis Hanson and General H. R. McMaster. Find it at the bottom in the “Serendipity” section. Otherwise, the content order is the following: podcasts, American Greatness, VDH Ultra Content, with Serendipity last. Sami Winc
The Culturalist: Technology and Education
VDH discusses with Sami Winc Israel’s Iron Dome, Wuhan virus, and education in our public institutions. Animals, a historical perspective, completes the episode.
Citizens Lamed
Wilfred M. McClayThe New Criterion The title of “citizen” has lost much of the simple grandeur it once had. It deserves far better, and as Victor Davis Hanson shows in his learned, powerful, and troubling new book, The Dying Citizen, the steady devolution of citizenship speaks volumes about where we are today and where we […]
VDH UltraReflections on 2020—the Worst Year in the Last Half-Century: Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Eeyore’s Cabinet The Silicon Valley Octopus Flexed its Tentacles In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the author describes a soulless world created by an authoritarian cadre that controlled even the thoughts of its subjects through massive electronic surveillance. An all-powerful state bureaucracy warped language, ideas, and history to convince and coerce the […]
The Classicist: Destroying Culture
VDH and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the destruction of civic culture, the return of tribalism, attacks on the middle class, the recall of Newsom, faulty science, and the loss of shame. A composition picture!