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Victor Davis Hanson Show

Don’t Look Back: America First and the Dangerous Alternative

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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Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality

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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A Study in Contrasts: Trump Sanity, Left Insanity, and Losing Cred Fast

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

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Grades, Military Technology, and the Left’s Ick and Shtick

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

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Movies, Novels, and the Death of Classics: Listeners’ Questions

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

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The West Is Sick of the New Woke Jihadism

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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Can The Current Universities Be Saved?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system. The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no longer equates with

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