VDH and Sami discuss the threats to Western culture, focusing on the rise of nationalism in Europe, the youth’s rebellion against the establishment, the crisis of free speech, and the impact of AI on reality. They also examine the growing culture of political violence and assassination attempts against conservative figures, emphasizing the need for vigilance […]
VDH and Jack talk about Jerry Seinfeld on the Free Palestine movement, Hollywood’s boycott of Israeli film institutions, the changing landscape of Silicon Valley, the question of lawlessness in the West, and more. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises. Yet they are all self-inflicted—and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides. These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage. Indeed, they are destroying the very civilization that was soon envisioned to be heaven on earth. The
Victor Davis Hanson and host Jack Fowler cover the decline of late-night comedy, the rise of the thought police in the Anglosphere, some favorite Clint Eastwood movies, VDH’s personal Mount Rushmore of Political Awfulness, and more. Share This
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine the condition of Israeli hostages, protest mentality in the West, against the West, maids and nannies on Long Island, California regulation and black markets, Trump re-settling South African minorities, tribalism and DEI destroy prosperity and endanger lives, and regaining deterrence after the Biden years. Share
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly. How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end
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
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large. Ostensibly it should. Some 750 million people live on the European subcontinent. Europe still remains the most popular tourist spot on earth. Its hallowed architecture, art,
A view into the conflict between Muslims and Christians: VDH interviews Raymond Ibrahim about his new book Defenders of the West. Ibrahim is an authority on Islam and Arabic history. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness We are witnessing a number of radical military, social, and political revolutions that are changing the United States—and the world—in fundamental ways that we still have not appreciated. The taboo about never mentioning the first-strike use of nuclear weapons in a major conventional war is now apparently over. Vladimir Putin