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Victor Davis Hanson Show

The Coarsening of the Culture and Howard’s End

Victor Davis Hanson and host Jack Fowler on the meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska, the nature of war and deterrence, the decline of Howard Stern, cultural coarseness in public discourse, the controversial policy of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, and more. Share This

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Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Harvard has refused to accept the orders of a Trump administration commission concerning its chronic problems with anti-Semitism, campus violence, and racial tribalism, bias, and segregation. Yet, unlike some conservative campuses that distrust an overbearing Washington, Harvard and most elite schools like it want it both ways. They do as they

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Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?

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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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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Farms, Universities and Businessmen

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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The Fix-It List: Education, China, and Ukraine

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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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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