Victor Davis Hanson Show

Trump Goes to California and Hegseth’s Confirmation

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for a discussion of Pete Hegseth’s nomination fight, the US Naval Academy, Elon’s salute, Trump taking on bureaucracy in California , Karen Bass’s radical past, pardons, and the special consideration of Mike Pompeo. Share This

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Trump and His New Frenemies, Abroad and at Home

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness President Trump recently gave a video talk to the World Economic Forum (WEF) assemblage in Davos. He expressed fondness for Europe. He praised many for their attendance—and then tore into the evils of hyperregulation, high taxes, radical environmentalism, and the DEI/ESG commissariat of both the prior Biden administration and indeed

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Trump, Davos, and the New World Order

On this episode, join Victory Davis Hanson and Sami Winc as they delve into the current political landscape, discussing Trump’s recent video address to Davos and the implications of his remarks. Victor shares insights on the controversial comments made by Bishop Budde regarding Trump and the ongoing debates surrounding immigration and social issues. The discussion

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Militaries must return to the ancient confidence that it is better to kill more of the aggressors’ population than to have lost some of its own.

Victor Davis Hanson // Mosaic This is a response to What’s Wrong with the Postmodern Military?, originally published in Mosaic in January 2025 Ran Baratz’s sharp critique of Israeli retaliatory action following October 7, coupled with incisive and constructive correctives, is a shared worry outside of Israel. Why, he asks, was the IDF surprised by the attack, why was

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VDH UltraThe Meaning of Late Pardons

Victor Davis Hanson discusses the late pardons signed by Joe Biden. We are still working on the app to play the video: Androids should work. We are still in the process with Apple of updating the iOS. Share This

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The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the left’s hysterical style of attacking Trump no longer worked. After a decade of this unhinged furor, it proved worthless in winning public support—and for two simple reasons. One, after years of Russian collusion hoaxes, the laptop disinformation farce, and the

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Sovereignty and the Face of Deterrence

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to talk about Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, US sovereignty, Harris-Biden admin and the sympathetic worldview, the necessity of deterrence, France pre-WWII, the unimpressive modern elite, GenZ lacking life skills, Israel and necessity, Gazans knew Hamas, and euthanasia in Canada. Share This

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VDH UltraRemembering a Peerless Historian

by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review With the recent death of British historian Paul Johnson (1928-2023), the second Age of Johnson has ended. The first Age of Johnson is an honorific for Samuel Johnson, the great 18th-century man of letters. As impressive and influential as he was, his world was confined largely to Europe, whereas

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VDH UltraJanuary 20—Novus ordo seclorum? Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson The obvious answer to all these disconnects, shockers, and paradoxes is not quite the whole answer: that Trump won in the greatest political comeback in U.S. history, that he might well be a Reaganesque president to Biden’s Carter, that his success will be his revenge and reveal to the country just how

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