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 […]
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
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
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to talk about Pope Francis who recently passed away, immigration and security of nations, Steve Witkoff and the Middle East-Ukraine arenas, illegal immigration brings with it insidious problems, Canada’s elections, Panama Canal’s future, AOC-Sander’s fan base and the 1960s, Blue Origin flight, and the Trump-Harvard stand-off. Share
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Harvard has refused to accept the orders of a Trump administration commission concerning its chronic problems with anti-Semitism, campus violence, and racial tribalism, bias, and segregation. Yet, unlike some conservative campuses that distrust an overbearing Washington, Harvard and most elite schools like it want it both ways. They do as they
Listen to the weekend edition with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc. Topics include a discussion of fascism in the 1930s, the polls on Trump’s approval, Trump goads Jerome Powell, Kristi Noem’s glam, Harvard and tax exemption, and nemesis touches partisan lawyers. Share This
Ultra Subscribers: Victor Davis Hanson talks about all the icons of the Democratic Party like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Karmelo Anthony, Mahmoud Khalil, and Luigi Mangione. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson Ultra Subcriber Consider the massive increase in federal spending in the 21st century, which some may call the greatest “stimulus” package in history. Did printing and pouring all that money into huge federal programs and entitlements spur economic growth—albeit in a suicidal and unsustainable fashion that has now caught up to us?
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for the news of the week: Deported Salvadoran MS-13 member Garcia, Shapiro’s home set ablaze, Lorenz on Mangioni’s “moral goodness”, Letitia James investigated, Biden’s speech, Gretchen Whitmer hides her face, pro-Hamas protesters, and Bezos sends a rocket into space. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Harvard University has rejected various demands of a presidential commission on anti-Semitism. The task force wants to persuade Harvard to ensure Jewish students on its campus are no longer harassed, or else lose its federal funding. Harvard retorts that it won’t be bullied by Washington. Among its other requirements, the