VDH UltraThe Unpredictable, Unforeseen, and Simply Strange. Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson Why worry about bees? I kept thinking that as I got dizzier. Out on the farm, the greater worries are as follows: sneaky coyote packs trying to lure the dogs into their ambushes by feigning limps; flicker woodpeckers destroying the sidings on all the buildings; ground squirrels burrowing under the barn foundation; […]

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Ideology Kills People

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine revolutionary Left-wing ideology: storming the Tennessee legislature, the WNBA and Jill Biden, the response to soaring black crime rates, diplomatic disasters, de-urbanization, and distractions like transgenderism. Share This

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Fiddling America Away

The last few weeks, the world had been writing off the United States as either crazy or irrelevant as it watches America cannibalize itself. Friends tremble at our sudden decline. Enemies rejoice. Neutrals make the necessary adjustments to join the ascendant non-American side. The symptoms of our decline abroad appear everywhere. The more Joe Biden

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Invasion, Migration? Some Thoughts

In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the barbarian invasions that helped topple the Roman Empire. This is book ended by thoughts on Don Lemon’s misogyny, Chicago’s mayoral race, our own border and the drag-queen craze. Share This

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The Razor’s Edge

Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson as he talks with cohost Sami Winc about Trump’s indictment and then analyzes Democratic policy from tenuous diplomacy to California’s failing state in a wet year. Something’s got to change. Share This

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VDH UltraThe Unpredictable, Unforeseen, and Simply Strange. Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson I was out early in the yard, picking up debris after our now routine violent California rainstorms. (So much for Gavin Newsom’s “permanent drought.”) Everything was soaked and the winds knocked over lots of umbrella stands. A wet outdoor carpet had blown off the deck onto the lawn. I bent over, put

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Immigration, Mass Murderer, and Campaign Strategy

In this episode, VDH and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Mayorkas’ border policy and testimony, media in the aftermath of Covenant School, DeSantis and Pence candidacies. VDH takes a moment to explore the similarities of this coming campaign season to Reagan’s 1980s campaign. Share This

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Our French Revolution

We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support.

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VDH UltraThe Unpredictable, Unforeseen, and Simply Strange. Part One

Víctor Davis Hanson Many of us foolishly go about our daily lives oblivious to how tenuous is our grip on the here and now. Much less do we, or should we, needlessly worry how easily everything can disappear in a nanosecond. But why worry about what in most cases we cannot control? And why worry

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VDH UltraPart Three. Hard, Brutal, and Dirty Work Is Ennobling

Victor Davis Hanson The infant vineyard was beautiful by July. The next June, in only its second leaf, the canopies on the trellises were stunning. The third year we harvested our first crops. Then the table grape market crashed in the Paul Volker years of him breaking high inflation that led to the Reagan recession

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