Unimaginable—and Inevitable
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@VDHanson Does the Left Really Want a Land of Lawfare?
Does the Left Really Want a Land of Lawfare? Republicans are debating whether for the sake of the country to play the adult role, and take the high road, eschewing tit-for-tat lawfare. Or should they reciprocate in kind to restore deterrence and remind the Left to stop it,… — Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) June 4,
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The Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do with the Prosecutions of Trump
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The five criminal and civil prosecutions of Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them. But Joe Biden has long let it be known that he was frustrated with his own Department of Justice’s federal prosecutors for
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The Justice Challenge: Trump v. Hunter
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the recent news on the Trump verdict, the opening days of Hunter Biden’s trial, Caitlyn Clark fending off opposing players, and the streets of Paris. Share This
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VDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part Five: The Annihilation of the Aztecs, 1521.
Victor Davis Hanson Hernán Cortés was an unlikely conqueror of civilizations. He was born into a middle-class Castilian family, leaving Spain just 12 years after the European discovery of the New World. At 18, the young Cortés planned to get rich, acquire estates, and thus advance in the New World’s Spanish elite hierarchy—in a way
VDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part Four: The End of the Byzantines, 1453
Victor Davis Hanson Despite bouts of destructive bubonic plague, the pillaging of the city by fellow Christians from Western Europe during the aborted Fourth Crusade (1204), and a tidal wave of Turkish invasions that finally under the Ottoman Sultanate had surrounded Constantinople, the eternal city of 1453 and its vestigial outlands still held out. Under
War Gaming Operation Downfall: What If We Invaded Japan? And other listener questions
In this special episode of the Victor Davis Hanson Show, Victor and host Jack Fowler delve into listener questions. The episode kicks off with an in-depth discussion on Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan during World War II, and the alternatives considered, including the use of atomic bombs. Victor provides a detailed analysis of
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The Destructive Generation—Proving America’s Weakest Link
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Governor Ronald Reagan, in his 1967 inaugural address, famously remarked, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction.” Reagan today might have expanded on his theme by declaring that civilization itself is both fragile and can lost by a generation that recklessly spends
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The End of Carthage: Things We Can Learn
Don’t miss Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the second chapter in VDH’s new best-selling book, “The End of Everything”: the destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War (149-146 BC) and its relevance to the present. Share This
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VDH UltraThe End of Everything. History Becomes Now? Part Three: The Deletion of Carthage, 146 BC
Victor Davis Hanson Carthage had fought and lost two Punic wars against Rome (264 BC–201 BC). After the end of the Hannibalic War (201), the city lost almost all its empire, many of its North African alliances, and was forced to pay Rome huge fines. Yet a mere half-century later, by 149 BC, Carthage was