VDH UltraAmerican Graffities. Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson Drinking “Coors” was standard, Olympia was considered “piss water.” (I preferred Olympia because it tasted like water.) Again, almost everyone knew something about cars. (None knew much about our Volvo 544 and looked baffled when they opened the hood.) Most on Saturday nights parked out on someone’s safe-space farm, drank, talked, fought,
VDH UltraAmerican Graffities. Part One
Victor Davis Hanson George Lucas’s American Graffiti is getting a lot of play recently. This year is the 50th anniversary of that brilliant film, depicting the fading high-school age of 1962 in small-town America—before the Sixties kicked in, Vietnam went to 500,000 American troops, and various cultural revolutions of the turn-on, tune-in, and drop-out sort
Muddling, Befuddling, Fetterman, Trump, and Fauci
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Biden’s performance from SOTU to Super Bowl talk, Fetterman‘s recent political moves, Fauci’s mea culpa and the history of the Yalta conference. Share This
Bombshells, Landmines, and Nemesis
For much of 2017 through 2021, Americans suffered the “bombshell” and “walls are closing” mythologies first of Russian collusion, then of supposedly vast Russian social media investments to sabotage the election. From there we moved on to the Alfa Bank ping-pong fable, the supposed Putin bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan that Trump was said
Landmines and Reckonings
This weekend episode Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc devote to the various landmines that may trip up the Biden Administration. He then talks about the Never-Trumpers dilemma. Share This
Our Broken Kaleidoscope
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the recent diplomacy of Turkey, India, and Ukraine. Then they examine transgendered activism and current cases of black-on-white violence. Share This
VDH UltraBalloonology
Victor Davis Hanson 1. Do we really believe it was unsafe to shoot down the Chinese balloon over Montana (6 people per square mile), but not over the Aleutians (1 person per square mile), or off the Pacific coast while in U.S. waters? 2. Was it really true that the Chinese balloon was of