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Victor Davis Hanson Show

Cynicism: the Roman Novel and Modern Politicking

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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.” Share This

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Roman Historians and Easter Tradition

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc look at a few news stories, talk about historians of the Roman era, and the Christian and pagan traditions of Easter. Share This

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Roman Plays and Illegal Acts

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Listen in this weekend as Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Sami Winc discuss the impact illegal immigration has on social services, the Supreme Court blocking the Biden admin effort to keep Texas border open, the hearings on Afghanistan, and the playwrights of ancient Rome. Share This

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Addled Biden and Xenophon Our First Polymath

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Join Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Sami Winc this weekend for a discussion of Biden’s “reassuring” speech, the Biden classified files, and Xenophon’s life as a soldier, philosopher, historian, and his works covering everything from war to Socrates to everyday life–is he the first man we should know from Ancient Greece. Share This

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From the Pre-Socratics to Kari Lake and Bibi Netanyahu

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc analyze pre-Socratic philosophy, the Kari Lake recording, Trump speeches, Texas’s constitutional crisis, and the anti-Bibi campaign by the Biden administration with the help of Bibi’s own war cabinet. Share This

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What About It, VDH?

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson takes on questions from his readers: he explains his optimism in US, takes a look at China today, assesses the decline of the ancient Athenian empire, gives a short on the Suez Crisis of 1955-56, and analyzes the long view of progressive control in US politics. Share This

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Civil War and Civility

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In this weekend edition, take a walk through the Roman Civil Wars with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc, a topic bookended by white America dropping out and universities beyond the Stanford model. Share This

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Bankrupt and Absurd: What’s Doing Us In?

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the Stanford Law School incident, Charlie Kirk assailed by UC Davis president and students, the billions for reparations and BLM, and tanks in modern warfare. Don’t miss the question: is the US like Byzantium? Share This

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Are We the Byzantines?

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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome. Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies, …

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