Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Jack Fowler on John Brennan probed by the Trump Administration, judicial overreach, Greece post-World War II, the alarming decline of American cities, a survey of Civil War histories, and more.
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5 thoughts on “The Treasonous John Brennan”
Kevin Blanton
Wonderful show as always. Your description of whats happening in these awful cities including Baltimore in the awful state of Maryland where i live describes the cloward piven strategy perfectly. Ive never heard you mention this by name but would certainly like to hear your thoughts because it seems like it’s steaming ahead nicely. Hope you get well soon. Wish the Donald would stay focused on the main things. Im sure hes being pulled in all sorts of directions. Swamps dont drain themselves.
Ron Nixon
With respect to the teacher looking for a classical curriculum may I offer my experiences attending a British grammar school:
Secondary school is five years long. In the first three years you take the following subjects: maths, English, English lit., French, Latin (part of classical studies), history, geography, music, biology, chemistry, physics, and games (either rugby, soccer, or cricket/athletics depending on the season). Only maths, English, and French are taught daily. At the end of your third year you choose which courses you want to take for your GCSE O-level exams which are taken at the end of your fifth year. An average load might be maths, English, English lit, French, history, and biology. The exams are all either science based or essay based. For example, my history O-level was based on a 100 year span of British history from the Battle of Waterloo (1815) to World War One (1914) which we had studied for two years. The exam was 2.5 hours and consisted of five random essay questions. You had to write well crafted 5 paragraph essays (ie. intro, body, conclusion) on 16″ foolscap paper.
After taking these exams at 16 you are finished with school. You now have the option to find a job, take an apprenticeship, or stay on another two years and take A-level exams which are the qualifications to enter university.
We also wore uniforms which consisted of a blazer and school tie, and addressed our teachers as either sir or miss.
Ron Nixon
Growing up in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s Enoch Powell was a taboo figure. He was falsely portrayed as some sort of diabolical white supremacist who was reflexively anti-immigrant. He wasn’t a racist and what he said in the now infamous Rivers of Blood speech was terribly distorted and warped by his left wing critics. They successfully smeared him as an advocate for violence.
Powell was an MP for Wolverhampton and gave the Rivers of Blood speech in response to concerns from his constituents about increasing numbers of foreign immigrants. In part of the speech he quotes a letter from a constituent that read that one day the foreigners would have the “whip hand” over the natives. This immediately tarred Powell as an Archie Bunker reactionary, an image he was never able to shrug off. Some people have speculated that had Powell quoted Virgil in the original Latin (Powell knew Latin fluently) most people wouldn’t have known what he had said and his comments would not have created so much controversy.
Charles Carroll
My father attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Old OLPH) in Brooklyn where he learned Latin, Greek, German, and French. When i went to high school in 1963 he informed me that I would take Latin so I would learn to speak English. After the first two years, he was able to torture me with Tacitus. In my senior year my Latin Teacher, Dr. James Xupolos who spoke 23 languages, was having a discussion with me and found out that my Dad had taken Greek. He wrote down a paragraph in Greek and had me bring it home. My Dad, who hadn’t been in school since 1933, read it, chuckled, and wrote him a return note. When those German Redemptorist fathers taught you, it stuck. His other requirement was that I always have a soft-cover dictionary on the end table whenever I was on the couch reading my adventure and science fiction stories so I wouldn’t bypass learning a new word out of sloth. What a blessing I was given.
Wonderful show as always. Your description of whats happening in these awful cities including Baltimore in the awful state of Maryland where i live describes the cloward piven strategy perfectly. Ive never heard you mention this by name but would certainly like to hear your thoughts because it seems like it’s steaming ahead nicely. Hope you get well soon. Wish the Donald would stay focused on the main things. Im sure hes being pulled in all sorts of directions. Swamps dont drain themselves.
With respect to the teacher looking for a classical curriculum may I offer my experiences attending a British grammar school:
Secondary school is five years long. In the first three years you take the following subjects: maths, English, English lit., French, Latin (part of classical studies), history, geography, music, biology, chemistry, physics, and games (either rugby, soccer, or cricket/athletics depending on the season). Only maths, English, and French are taught daily. At the end of your third year you choose which courses you want to take for your GCSE O-level exams which are taken at the end of your fifth year. An average load might be maths, English, English lit, French, history, and biology. The exams are all either science based or essay based. For example, my history O-level was based on a 100 year span of British history from the Battle of Waterloo (1815) to World War One (1914) which we had studied for two years. The exam was 2.5 hours and consisted of five random essay questions. You had to write well crafted 5 paragraph essays (ie. intro, body, conclusion) on 16″ foolscap paper.
After taking these exams at 16 you are finished with school. You now have the option to find a job, take an apprenticeship, or stay on another two years and take A-level exams which are the qualifications to enter university.
We also wore uniforms which consisted of a blazer and school tie, and addressed our teachers as either sir or miss.
Growing up in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s Enoch Powell was a taboo figure. He was falsely portrayed as some sort of diabolical white supremacist who was reflexively anti-immigrant. He wasn’t a racist and what he said in the now infamous Rivers of Blood speech was terribly distorted and warped by his left wing critics. They successfully smeared him as an advocate for violence.
Powell was an MP for Wolverhampton and gave the Rivers of Blood speech in response to concerns from his constituents about increasing numbers of foreign immigrants. In part of the speech he quotes a letter from a constituent that read that one day the foreigners would have the “whip hand” over the natives. This immediately tarred Powell as an Archie Bunker reactionary, an image he was never able to shrug off. Some people have speculated that had Powell quoted Virgil in the original Latin (Powell knew Latin fluently) most people wouldn’t have known what he had said and his comments would not have created so much controversy.
My father attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Old OLPH) in Brooklyn where he learned Latin, Greek, German, and French. When i went to high school in 1963 he informed me that I would take Latin so I would learn to speak English. After the first two years, he was able to torture me with Tacitus. In my senior year my Latin Teacher, Dr. James Xupolos who spoke 23 languages, was having a discussion with me and found out that my Dad had taken Greek. He wrote down a paragraph in Greek and had me bring it home. My Dad, who hadn’t been in school since 1933, read it, chuckled, and wrote him a return note. When those German Redemptorist fathers taught you, it stuck. His other requirement was that I always have a soft-cover dictionary on the end table whenever I was on the couch reading my adventure and science fiction stories so I wouldn’t bypass learning a new word out of sloth. What a blessing I was given.
I love VDH’s impersonation of Biden, spot on!