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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness With fits and starts, we are slowly returning to reality after four years of mass hysteria. Our media-deified, progressive icons are finally being exposed as the deceivers they always were. Jussieopath From the moment details emerged surrounding Jussie Smollett’s hate-crime hoax, any sane, non-woke person could have recognized he was […]

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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

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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. Share This

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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