VDH's Blade of Perseus // Private Papers
Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender.
Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically “overrepresented” in offering the ultimate sacrifice to their country.
When generals, active and retired, have become controversial, usually conservative America could be counted on to stick with them.
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness We have seen enough of the Biden-Trump race so far to predict what lies ahead over the next seven months of the campaign. Currently, the polls are about dead even. Trump, however, for now enjoys
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks about the Roman novel with cohost Sami Winc. They finish up news of the week with a new whistleblower from Boeing, Biden lies and fostering Iran’s power, and Germany the “Sick Man of Europe.”
In this Friday’s news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc look at Palestinian protests and pressuring Israel, Afghanistan withdrawal as a failure, the Senate delaying Mayorkas impeachment trial, FISA legislation causing split in the GOP, and transgendered females banned by NAIA.
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore the meltdown of the EV craze, Biden’s strategic petroleum reserve at 17% and border control for the 2024 election, the Left demonizing conservatives, “Killing America” by Eli and Shelby Steele, and California subsidizing labor non-participation and other things destroying the state.
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to examine Blinken’s rhetoric against Israel, Ukraine’s “Spring Offensive” 2023 in retrospect, immigrants flown to Florida and Texas, the myth of rural white rage, and asking Justice Sotomayor to retire.
This weekend Victor Davis Hanson interviews Benedict Beckeld about his book Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of the West and Kevin Feigelis about the Gaza war and campus life.
Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc: Biden administration’s Netanyahu policy and Iran’s generals killed, Merchan puts gag order on Trump, Easter at the White House, Ruby Garcia shot by an illegal immigrant, RFK Jr. choses Trump over Biden, and JK Rowling and Scotland’s new hate crime.
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007, and the Bradley Prize in 2008, as well as the Edmund Burke Award (2018), William F. Buckley Prize (2015), the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award (2006), and the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002).
