Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal—and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s […]
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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Trump’s America First Manifesto contrasted with Obama, how Mexico thinks DJT is unserious, Greenland’s status, facing China’s Belt and Road Initiative, meritocracy’s comeback, de-DEIing the university, the irony of Biden and mental fitness, and the anniversary of the Alger Hiss conviction. Share This
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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to look at Hoover’s legacy, Stewart Resnick’s farms, the presidency left in shambles for Donald Trump, how red-state universities are still DEI infused, the worst VP-pick in history, Zuckerberg’s convenient mea-culpa, and Classics in education. Share This
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In this special episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks to Ilya Shapiro about his law school experience and university employment as a senior lecturer at Georgetown Center for the Constitution, from which he was forced to resign for opinion on SCOTUS DEI hiring. Share This
Beyond Peak Woke?: VDH Interviews Ilya Shapiro on Our University Censors Read More »
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the money spent on education and its empty promises, how China’s Belt and Road Initiative is going, the U.S. crossing a line in the Ukraine, Biden’s anti-colonialist book, and Bill Clinton’s regrets. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36 percent of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility. Gifting to most universities has been
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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the La Leche League and “chest-feeding,” transexuals not being a third sex, child-endangerment, Trump’s warrior board and university reform, and Whoop-tee-do Whoopi trying to take out a small family-owned bakery with false accusations. Share This
A Study in Contrasts: Trump Sanity, Left Insanity, and Losing Cred Fast Read More »
Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to examine the usefulness of college grades, the cost-benefit analysis of military weapons, origins of Houthi rebels, Obama’s presidential library, Walz the worst VP-pick in history, JD Vance on school shootings, and Newsom’s veto on housing loans for illegals. Share This
Grades, Military Technology, and the Left’s Ick and Shtick Read More »
Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Shane, The Searchers, Lonesome Dove, The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan, The Bridge on the River Kwai and more movies, Robert Graves’s I Claudius, Mary Renault’s series on Alexander the Great and other novels, and Classics in education. Share This
Movies, Novels, and the Death of Classics: Listeners’ Questions Read More »
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatnes What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting? What are the students at Stanford University vandalizing the president’s office really demonstrating against? What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming parks and rampaging in the streets really angry about? Occupations? They could care less that the Islamist
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