Victor Davis Hanson talks with Barry Strauss about Jews Vs Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire, scheduled for release August 19, 2025. They talk about revolts of Masada, Bar Kokhba, and other resistance, plus the historical relevance to the current state of Israel’s geopolitics. Share This
Jews vs. Rome: VDH Interviews Barry Strauss on New Book Read More »
Join the weekend edition where Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about the Harris-Walz talk and Harris’s speech, the Israel ceasefire, the military parade in Kabul, a ruling against UCLA’s treatment of Jewish students, and a discussion of Edward Gibbons’ The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Share This
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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler entertain questions from listeners on the Battle of Teutoburg Forest and the Roman conquest of Germany, its legacy, an analysis of the best militaries of the past, warrior v. soldier, and Latin American professionals and skilled labor leaving their home countries, and the immigration narrative
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Don’t miss Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the second chapter in VDH’s new best-selling book, “The End of Everything”: the destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War (149-146 BC) and its relevance to the present. Share This
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Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Few Romans in the late decades of their 5th-century AD empire celebrated their newfound “diversity” of marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals. These tribes en masse had crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty without a care about what had created it. Their agendas were
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Victor Davis Hanson and Barry Strauss discuss his recent book, The War That Made the Roman Empire, and his friendship and experiences with Victor as classicists and military historians. Don’t miss them on the Roman Empire, reshaping the West, and his fascinating thesis. Share This
An Interview with Classicist and Military Historian Barry Strauss Read More »