The Culturalist: Encounters with the Intelligentsia

Join Victor Davis Hanson on a journey through the intellectuals who he has met from childhood to his academic career. VDH explains to cohost Sami Winc the qualities he found to admire in them.

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4 thoughts on “The Culturalist: Encounters with the Intelligentsia”

  1. Dear Professor Hanson,
    This was so episode was so enjoyable. I have followed you for years due to Rush Limbaugh’s referral to your columns at National Review. I had discovered my conservatism I the early 90’s when I found Rush on the radio. All the references to Shelby Steel, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Sowell, Mark Levin, were all very educational. I miss Rush, if I listened to his show I was informed for the day.
    Sincerely,
    Lynn Perini

  2. James A Hageman

    Today’s show prompted me to sign up and to comment. Thanks for your remarks about Reedley College. My father taught there in the ’70s and ’80s. I always appreciate your portraits of life in the Central Valley, where I grew up on a farm in the area (at one point we even planted eucaplytus trees for firewood). Above all, I enjoy the sanity you bring to punditry, especially through the lens of the classics.

    Best,
    James Hageman

  3. Thank you for this engaging intellectual archeology. It’s a great companion to the podcast on influential classicists. It’s important for those who are a good stretch younger to hear about the key players of even a decade back and the past arguments that shape the thought of current figures.

  4. James A Hageman

    Thanks. VDH. This episode brought more nostalgia than usual, because my father taught at Reedley College (later KRCC) in the late ’60s and through the ’70s, and I grew up in circumstances somewhat like your own. I greatly appreciate your presence in media, and always look forward to the sanity you bring to contemporary events, seen through the lens of the classics.

    Godspeed,
    James Hageman

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