The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast

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Episode 55: Four Shakedowns and Several Grifts Ago . . . Feb 16, 2021

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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.

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VDH: The Wages of Trump Hatred

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The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Schutte.

Episode 54: Animal Farm 2021 Feb 09, 2021

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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.

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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“

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The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Episode 53: The Russia Card Feb 02, 2021

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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.

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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.

Episode 52: Time to Forget Jan 26, 2021

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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.

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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

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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.

Episode 51: Achilles’s Tendencies Jan 20, 2021

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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.

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The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte and hosted by Jack Fowler.

Episode 50: No Umbrage Zone: The Left, Left Out Jan 12, 2021

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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.

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VDH: Crazy 2020 Is Dead! Long Live Crazier 2021!

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The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is co-hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Episode 49: Georgia, No Peace I Find Jan 06, 2021

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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.

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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

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@VDHanson
@JackFowler

The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

Episode 48: Speak with Woked Tongue Dec 29, 2020

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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.

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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

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@VDHanson
@JackFowler

This episode is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Schutte.

Episode 47: ‘Nemesis Is Holding on Line One’ Dec 22, 2020

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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.

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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.

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The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is hosted by Jack Fowler and produced by Sarah Schutte.

Episode 46: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Left World Dec 15, 2020

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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.

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