VDH UltraAbsurdities of the Age. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson The Stock Market Entitlement Complex On Friday, April 24, the stock market closed about 40,000 on the Dow Jones, or where it was variously just recently between May and August 2024. Yet we still hear from the investor class (10 percent of the nation’s own 93 percent of stock market capitalization) cries […]

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Trump Fixing It and World-Class Criminals Championed by the Left

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Ukraine, China, polls, the stock market, technology’s future and Elon Musk, Hegseth targeted, Judge Hannah Dugan abetting criminals, due process for illegal aliens, Dept. of Energy, and Democrats don’t understand the working class. Share This

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Trump, Tariffs, Trade—and a Taboo?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness After only a hundred days, the Trump counterrevolution has made quite miraculous progress on the border, illegal immigration, cost-cutting, curbing the DEI/woke revolution, and a historic Ukrainian War settlement. The pushback to this multifront effort from the left has been formidable, if not hysterical. The greatest fury mostly centers around

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A Prelude to World War II and Our Crazy Judicial World

Join the weekend edition with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they talk about events that led to World War II and some current trials for our system of justice: New Mexico justice banned for life, SCOTUS on LGBTQ+ literature, Minnesota DA lets off Tesla vandal, a task force on anti-Christian bias, banning

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VDH UltraWhat Makes Them Crazy

Ultra Subscribers: Join Victor Davis Hanson for his Friday Ultra.  He explores the things Trump is succeeding at that are making and threaten to make the wayward Democrats a little nutty or, in his words, “woke nincompoops”! Share This

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Earth Day, Immigration, and JD Vance

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this week’s news: Earth Day, Abrego Garcia madness, Hegseth’s faceless critics, Elizabeth Warren, and JD Vance in the news and in India. Share This

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What Is Democratic Legality?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Since 2021, the left has waged a veritable war against the American legal system in a variety of ways. One serial target of Democrats and the Left has been the Supreme Court. In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke to an angry throng of pro-abortion protestors assembled at

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No Majority, No Honesty: What the Left Lacks

 In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the polls on Trump’s agenda, the Left being unable to spell out an agenda, the media’s false claim of a violent right, Arizona governor Hobbes, California unaffordable and swamped by immigrants, Los Angeles post-fire and post-sanity, and Van Hollen in El Salvador. Share

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VDH UltraSort of An Angry Reader, Part Two 04-23-2025

3) As a historian, you should know how the Smoot-Hawley tariffs choked the Japanese economy in the 1930s and eventually led to Pearl Harbor. Trump’s draconian tariffs on China could have similar unintended consequences. With all due respect, this is embarrassingly absurd. Smoot-Hawley did not choke the Japanese economy. It had near zero effect on

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VDH UltraSort of An Angry Reader, Part One 04-22-2025

Dear Professor Hanson, I respect you as a historian, but an economist you are not. Your seeming support for Trump’s tariffs has been thoroughly refuted by the folks at the WSJ. I will not repeat their arguments. You ask the right questions but completely ignore the unintended consequences of Trump’s actions. I will make my

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