The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast

On this 65th and final episode (with assurances to all that VDH will be offering his wisdom on other podcast venues in the very near future), Victor discusses bureaucrats and their mask permutations, the GOP’s likely impossible search for another Shane, the racist benchmarks of the BLM-Woke Axis, and the limits of how much “ruin” America can sustain before it’s . . . ruined. This episode is sponsored by Shraga Kawior and the Bradley Foundation’s speak series, We the People. Show Notes: VDH: The New Antiracism Is the Old Racism VDH: How Much Ruin Do We Have Left? Contact: Website: Victor Hanson Private Papers VDH Newsletter: Week in Review Parler: @VictorDavisHanson Facebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson Facebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club Facebook group: VDH’s Morning Cup Twitter: @VDHanson Author: Victor Davis Hanson page at Amazon Forthcoming VDH book: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America Sponsors: Bradley Foundation We The People Speaker Series We the People new episode: Wilfred McClay and Peter Wood National Association of Scholars Center for the History of Liberty The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Victor discusses the Joe Biden who never was, the political uses of the death of Officer Sicknick, Biden’s determination to upset the peace Trump handed him, Maxine Waters’s riot-mongering, the declining role of religion in America, the stale immigration dreams of George W. Bush, and the highs and lows of General Douglas MacArthur. \r\n\nShow Notes:\r\n\n\nVDH: The Joe Biden Who Never Was\r\n\nVDH: How to Start a War\r\n\nGallup Poll: U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time\r\n\nNational Association of Scholars\r\n\nCenter for the History of Liberty\r\n\n\nVDH Social Media and More:\r\n\n\nWebsite: Victor Hanson Private Papers\r\n\nVDH Newsletter: Week in Review\r\n\nParler: @VictorDavisHanson\r\n\nFacebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson\r\n\nFacebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club\r\n\nFacebook group: VDH’s Morning Cup\r\n\nTwitter: @VDHanson\r\n\nAuthor: Victor Davis Hanson page at Amazon\r\n\nForthcoming VDH book: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America\r\n\n\nSponsor:\r\n\nBradley Foundation “We The People” Speaker Series\r\n\n“We the People” new episode: Wilfred McClay and Peter Wood\r\n\nThe Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.\r\n

Victor discusses the rationale behind the elites’ wokeness, the cannibalism of revolutions, how race trumps all, the MSM’s preference for the noble lie, and the value of the American iconoclast. This episode is sponsored by Shraga Kawior.\r\n\nShow Notes:\r\n\n\nVDH: Wealthy and Woke\r\n\nVDH: Can the Great ‘Awokening’ Succeed?\r\n\nVDH: Eeyore’s Cabinet: Noble Lies? \r\n\nVDH: Optimism Inc.: Serendipity on the Farm \r\n\nMichael Vlahos: Church of Woke: Next American Religion? \r\n\nRod Dreher: Elites vs. America\r\n\n\nContact:\r\n\n\nWebsite: Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers\r\n\nVDH Newsletter: Week in Review\r\n\nParler: @VictorDavisHanson\r\n\nFacebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson\r\n\nFacebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club\r\n\nFacebook group: VDH’s Morning Cup\r\n\nTwitter: @VDHanson\r\n\nAuthor: Victor Davis Hanson page at Amazon\r\n\n\nThe Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.\r\n

Victor takes on Joe Biden, golden-goose-strangler; COVID realities in the face of expert lockdown-love; Delta, Major League Baseball, and other big business virtue-signalers accommodating the Woke Police (while deal-making with Red China’s oppressors); and Young Victor meets Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965. \r\n\nShow Notes:\r\n\n\nVDH: Donald J. Trump: Joe Biden’s Best Friend\r\n\nVDH: Radical New Rules for Post-America\r\n\nVDH: Mythologizing the Past\r\n\nVDH: Optimism Inc.\r\n\n“We the People” new episode: J. Christian Adams and Rick Esenberg\r\n\nWisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty\r\n\nPublic Interest Legal Foundation\r\n\n\nContact:\r\n\n\nWebsite: Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers\r\n\nVDH Newsletter: Week in Review\r\n\nParler: @VictorDavisHanson\r\n\nFacebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson\r\n\nFacebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club\r\n\nFacebook group: VDH’s Morning Cup\r\n\nTwitter: @VDHanson\r\n\nAuthor: Victor Davis Hanson page at Amazon\r\n\n\nSponsor:\r\n\nThe Bradley Foundation’s We the People speaker series.\r\n\nThe Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.\r\n

Victor takes on the latest Fauci winging-it, flip-floppery; whether America is committing suicide; the trouble of our military’s progressive “recalibration”; the bizarre morality of anti-racism racism; and reflections on pal Conrad Black’s argument that the Trump-Hate coalition is crumbling. This episode is sponsored by a great friend of The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast, Shraga Kawior. \r\n\nShow Notes:\r\n\n\nVDH: Is Racism Moral Now?\r\n\nVDH: The Nature of Chinese Contempt for Us\r\n\nVDH: Thoughts of the week\r\n\nConrad Black: The Trump-Hate Coalition Is Crumbling\r\n\n\nContact:\r\n\n\nWebsite: Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers\r\n\nVDH Newsletter: Week in Review\r\n\nParler: @VictorDavisHanson\r\n\nFacebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson\r\n\nFacebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club\r\n\nFacebook group: VDH’s Morning Cup\r\n\nTwitter: @VDHanson\r\n\nAuthor: Victor Davis Hanson page at Amazon\r\n\n\nThe Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.\r\n

Victor discusses America’s new class warfare, the foreign-policy consequences of our feeble POTUS, the Biden administration’s getting out-manipulated by Red China and Russia, how the “party of science” loves superstition and prefers ideology, and a media starting to weakly admit that Scranton Joe owns the border crisis. \r\n\nShow Notes:\r\n\n\nVDH: Follow The ‘Science,’ They Said\r\n\nMichael Lind (Tablet Magazine) : The COVID Class War Heats Up\r\n\nVDH on Megyn Kelly Show (March 15)\r\n\nPre-order VDH’s forthcoming book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America\r\n\n\nContact:\r\n\n\nVDH Newsletter: Week in Review\r\n\nParler: @VictorDavisHanson\r\n\nFacebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson\r\n\nFacebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club\r\n\nFacebook group: VDH’s Morning Cup\r\n\nTwitter: @VDHanson\r\n\n\nSponsor:\r\n\nThe Bradley Foundation’s We the People series \r\n\nThe Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.\r\n

The madness at America’s open southern border, media legendizing, the Left’s “Imaginarium,” Biden’s first national address (a truth-free zone), the international consequences of domestic unrest, and gauging the likelihood of a Newsom recall in California — all that and more get the VDH treatment. \r\n\nShow Notes:\r\n\n\nVDH: The Progressive Imaginarium\r\n\nVDH: The Legends of Our Fall\r\n\nStrategika: Issue 71\r\n\nMichael Moyar (Strategika): Domestic Disorder and International Credibility\r\n\nPre-order VDH’s forthcoming book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America\r\n\n\nContact:\r\n\nParler: @VictorDavisHanson\r\n\nFacebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson\r\n\nFacebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club\r\n\nFacebook group: VDH’s Morning Cup\r\n\nTwitter: @VDHanson\r\n\nSponsor:\r\n\nNational Review’s Capital Record podcast \r\n\nThe Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.\r\n

Victor discusses an incoherent presidency, whether American has gained sufficient antibodies to fight the woke pandemic, lefty journalists who reject “free speech,” and Never Trumpers now championing Never Conservatism. Show Notes: VDH: Hitting Woke Herd Immunity? The College Fix: Top digital journalism professor at Columbia calls for censorship of conservative media The Wall Street Journal: The Censorship Party The Bulwark: H.R. 1 for Dummies National Review: Democrats’ Voting Rights “For the People” HR 1 Bill Is a Scandal Pre-order VDH’s forthcoming book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America Contact: Parler: @VictorDavisHanson Facebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson Facebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club Twitter: @VDHanson Sponsors: The Bradley Foundation’s We the People series The Shraga Kawior Family in remembrance of Rush Limbaugh The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Victor discusses the neutron bomb effect of COVID, Biden and 2022, lefty Stanford profs and their Hoover Hate, Trump wows CPAC, Cancel Culture bites Dr. Seuss on Mulberry Street while Democratic congressman try to de-cable the Right. Show Notes: VDH: Was COVID-19 Our Neutron Bomb?  Stanford Review: Atlas, Ferguson, and Hanson: On Free Speech at Stanford Fowler: Stanford University and Hoover Institution: Woke Faculty Attacks Conservative Scholars Democratic Congressmen pressure Cable companies: McNerney-Eshoo letter VDH’s forthcoming book, pre-order The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America Contact: Parler: @VictorDavisHanson Facebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson Facebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club Twitter: @VDHanson Sponsors: Young America’s Foundation The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Amazon disappears Ryan Anderson’s important 2018 book, When Harry Met Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, amigo Rush Limbaugh remembered, Joe Biden’s into-war stumbling, and the race card played quickly against Senate foes of a nasty lefty nominee.  Show Notes: VDH: Is the Biden Administration Stumbling Into War? Ryan Anderson (First Things): When Amazon Erased My Book We the People Series: Episode 3, Robert Alt from The Buckeye Institute Contact: Parler: @VictorDavisHanson Facebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson Facebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club Twitter: @VDHanson Sponsors: The Dissident Bradley Foundation’s We the People Series The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Victor takes on the Lincoln Project’s muddied moralists, Andrew Cuomo’s gubernatorial lethality, Big Tech’s Trump-hate, the reemerged Parler and its fight to survive, the lies about Officer Brian Sicknick’s death, and their role in the Trump impeachment follies.  Show Note: VDH: The Wages of Trump Hatred Contact: Parler: @VictorDavisHanson Facebook personal: Victor Davis Hanson Facebook group: The Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club Twitter: @VDHanson The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Schutte. 

On this episode, Victor discusses his friend Thomas Sowell; the campaign to recall California governor Gavin Newson; the second Trump impeachment and its long-term consequences; and his essay on the Left’s agenda to help friends, punish enemies, and keep and expand power.  Show Notes: VDH: “Our Animal Farm“ Los Angeles Time: Editorial: Gavin Newsom doesn’t deserve to be recalled Berkeley poll on Gavin Newsom performance: press release Documentary: Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World Free to Choose Network: website Recall Gavin Newsom: website Sarah Colleen Schutte: “You’re a Good Man, Encyclopedia Brown“ Sponsor: The Bradley Foundation’s We the People The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Victor discusses the new issue of Strategika and its theme of U.S.-Russian relations, progressive illiberalism, and the first days of the Biden administration.  Show Notes: VDH: Why Are Progressives So Illiberal? Hoover Institution: Strategika Issue #70 Seth Cropsey (Strategika): Is There A Russia Card? Josef Joffe (Strategika): Forget The Russia Card The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and is produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Victor discusses the Left’s call for reprogramming, attacks on the the 1776 Commission report, the Biden administration’s executive order kyboshing girls’ sports, and recall-targeted Governor Gavin Newsom’s newfound desire to loosen lockdowns.  Show Notes: VDH: 1776 Commission Report Controversy: America Is Imperfect — and Also Great VDH: The River of Forgetfulness Abigail Shrier (Wall Street Journal): Joe Biden’s First Day Began the End of Girls’ Sports The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission Final Report Sponsors: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation “We the People” series, 2021 Episode One: Heritage Foundation president Kay Coles James  The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Victor discusses President Biden’s first day, President Trump’s final ones, the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission’s just-released important report, calls to ban Fox and Newsmax from cable systems, stabbing Hector’s corpse, GOP wishful thinking, and much more. Show Notes: VDH: Stabbing Hector’s Corpse The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission Final Report The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte and hosted by Jack Fowler.

Victor discusses the fallout from the riots at the U.S. Capitol, the impact on the legacy of Donald Trump, the media’s relentless double standards, Joe Biden’s “healing” rhetoric, and the recall effort against California governor Gavin Newsom.  Show Note: VDH: Crazy 2020 Is Dead! Long Live Crazier 2021!  Contact: VDH on Twitter: @VDHanson Jack Fowler on Twitter: @JackFowler The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is co-hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Victor discusses the ramifications of the Georgia Senate special elections, just how horribilis was the annus 2020, the sneaky ways used by college administrators to suppress politically incorrect professors, the achievements of Devin Nunes, and wrestling far above your weight class.  Show Notes: VDH: 2020 Death, Destruction & Dissension: America Did Not Fall Apart George Leef (NRO): College Officials Find New Ways to Silence Unwanted Professors Stephen Baskerville (James G. Martin Center): Scholastic-Gag-Orders: NDAs, Mandatory Arbitration, and the Legal Threat to Academics VDH website: Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers VDH author page at Amazon Contact: @VDHanson @JackFowler The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Victor ends 2020 discussing the vocabulary of Wokespeak, America’s “Animal Farm” media and its post-election flipping of political good and bad, President Trump’s proclamation on the 850th anniversary of Saint Thomas Beckett’s martyrdom, Red China’s global social-media propaganda campaign to promote lockdowns, and the effort by school progressives to ban Homer and other dead white male authors.  Show Notes: VDH: A Guide to “Wokespeak”: The Left’s New Terminology VDH: Media Flips Political Truths after Biden’s Election VDH: Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom Donald Trump: Proclamation on 850th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket Meghan Cox Gurdon (Wall Street Journal): Even Homer Gets Mobbed Michael Senger (Tablet): China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign Contact: @VDHanson @JackFowler This episode is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Schutte.

Today Victor looks at Joe Biden, alleged Healer of the Nation, and also the man (and his enabling media) whose hubris have dates with comeuppance, plus Red China’s on-all-fronts efforts to weaken America, John Kerry’s looming Climate Czarship, the MSM’s strange lack of interest in spy/love ties of Congressman Erik Swalwell, and some reflections on youthful Christmases with BB guns under the tree.  Show Notes: VDH: Biden Should Be Aware of Nemesis. VDH: China Post-Trump: Beijing Eyes Return to Global Status Quo The Atlantic: The Risk of John Kerry Following His Own China Policy. Raymond Ibrahim: The Al Qaeda Reader: The Essential Texts of Osama Bin Laden’s Terrorist Organization. Sponsor: Caucus Room. The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Schutte. 

On today’s episode Victor discusses the root causes of the new mad Left, the “Hydroxy Effect” facing Joe Biden, the Hoover Institution’s Strategika journal and its new discussion on the pandemic’s impact on Red China, and the immigration/amnesty threat that a Biden administration may unleash on the American people and economy.  Show Notes: VDH: Where Did the New Mad Left Come From? VDH: Will Biden Give In to the Hydroxy Effect? Hoover Institution: Strategika From Strategika Issue 69 by Christopher O’Dea: Pandemic Impact on China’s Global Expansion: Delayed, but not Derailed Victor’s upcoming Israel Trip: VDH2021.com We thank our sponsors: Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy (Basic Books) Black Rifle Coffee Caucus Room Contact: VDH on Twitter: @VDHanson Jack Fowler on Twitter: @JackFowler Today’s episode is produced by Sarah Schutte.