The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast

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Episode 45: Hate Speech towards Free Speech Dec 08, 2020

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Victor discusses Joe Biden’s brave new world; the disdain of free speech by America’s journalists; fed-up small-business owners in California; the late Walter Williams; and on this, the 79th anniversary of America’s declaration of war against Japan, his thoughts on why the Empire believed it could defeat America and control the Pacific.

Show Notes:

VDH: Progressives Are Killing Free Expression
VDH: Joe Biden Presidency: Past Will Be Rewritten, Present Molded to Burnish President
David Harsanyi: Freedom of Speech: Journalists Turn Principles of Free Expression
A Great Christmas Present! VDH’s The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
Victor’s upcoming Israel Trip: VDH2021.com

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

Episode 44: The Critical Essence of the Country Mouse Dec 01, 2020

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Victor analyzes Donald Trump’s political future, the rural/urban divide and the Republic’s dependence on the self-reliant, the likelihood of a Biden administration building on Trump’s strategic foreign-policy gains, Scott Atlas and the COVID jihadists, and an upcoming VDH tour of Israel.

Show Notes:

VDH: Is America to Be First, Second — or What?
VDH: The Rural Way
VDH: Trump Faces Critical Choice About His Political Future
Stanford Review: Dr. Scott Atlas Responds to the Stanford Faculty Senate Resolution
MRC poll of duped Biden voters in Battleground states: Results here
Victor’s upcoming Israel Trip: VDH2021.com
New episode of The American Story Podcast: “Relics and Reverence“

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@JackFowler

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The American Story Podcast

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

Episode 43: The Man of Steele Nov 24, 2020

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On today’s episode, Victor and special guest Shelby Steele discuss his important new documentary film, What Killed Michael Brown? and the central role of white guilt in American liberalism.

Show Notes:

Website: What Killed Michael Brown? website
Trailer: What Killed Michael Brown?
Watch What Killed Michael Brown? on Amazon
Shelby Steele (Wall Street Journal): The Inauthenticity Behind Black Lives Matter.
VDH: The Rural Way
Eli Steele: How Jack Became Black.
Do read about George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation.
The American Story Podcast new episode: To Give or Not to Give Thanks.

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The American Story Podcast

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is produced by Sarah Schutte.

Episode 42: Georgia, Georgia, No Peace I Find Nov 18, 2020

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On today’s episode, Victor discusses what’s at stake for America in the forthcoming special U.S. Senate elections in Georgia, Donald Trump meets The Searchers, powerful claims about massive security deficiencies in America’s election and ballot-counting systems, Senator Josh Hawley leveling anti-trust charges at Big Tech’s Big Brothers, renewed Democratic yearning for student-loan debt forgiveness, and California’s lockdown-loving Governor Newson caught in yet another incident of do as I say, not as I do.

Show Notes:

VDH: Marching into Georgia, with the Senate in Sight
VDH: Will Trump Ride Off into the Sunset?
NR (Michael Brendan Dougherty): Federal Student-Loan Cancellation Is Bad Policy
NR (Brittany Bernstein): California Governor Newsom Flouting Coronavirus Precautions at Upscale Napa Restaurant
Washington Examiner: Josh Hawley Grills Facebook CEO about Tool Allegedly Used to Track Users across the Internet
Townhall: Sidney Powell Reads a Smartmatic Whistleblower’s Affidavit Alleging Voter Fraud
Sydney Powell discusses Dominion: Video here
Business Insider: Security Officials Worry Israel and Saudi Arabia May See the End of Trump as Their Last Chance to Go to War with Iran
The American Story Podcast‘s new episode: Thank God for Being an American

Sponsors:
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The American Story Podcast

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

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

Episode 41: The Don’t-Fight Club Nov 11, 2020

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On this episode, Victor discusses 2020 as the Year of Disinformation; how Election Day has become an abstraction (and how that threatens the Republic); the history of contested national elections; Andrew Cuomo, vaccine truther; Pfizer’s partisan game-playing; America’s third-world vote-counting; how some conservative elites spin the elections; the Mayflower Compact at 400; and a reflection on Veterans Day.

Show Notes:

VDH: “An Election-Day Bridge too Far“
VDH: “The Disinformationists“
VDH on Tucker Carlson Tonight (November 9): video clip
Joseph Loconte (NR): “Resisting the Leviathan: The Mayflower Compact“
Zachary Evans (NR) “Cuomo: Bad News that Pfizer Announced Vaccine Results Before Biden Assumes Office“
The American Story Podcast: “For the Troops.”
Notre Dame University Press: Between Two Millstones, Book 2 (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Notre Dame University Press: The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
H. R. McMaster (Wall Street Journal): Ponder the Rewards of Military Service
Media Research Center: Big Media and Big Tech Stole the 2020 Election

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@VDHanson
@JackFowler

This episode is produced by Sarah Schutte and is sponsored by the Claremont Institute’s The American Story podcast series, and the University of Notre Dame Press, publisher of the English translation Aleksander Solzhenitsyn’s memoirs, Between Two Millstones.

Episode 40: The 1984 Election Nov 03, 2020

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On today’s episode, Victor discusses his new essay, “Vote No on 1984”; President Trump’s executive order establishing a 1776 Commission; what happens when college professors and officials claim they’re racists; plans to turn San Francisco into a homeless camp; and Joe Biden, the godfather of partisanship.

Show Notes:

VDH: Vote No on 1984
NR: Trump Establishes a 1776 Commission
White House: Executive Order on Establishing the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission
City Journal: San Francisco, Homeless Encampment
The College Fix: Civil Rights Commission Members Seek Probe after Northwestern Faculty Declare They’re Racist
The College Fix: In Stanford Webinar, Ibram Kendi Claims Most Organizations Are Racist
Fowler: Biden, Never

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@VDHanson
@JackFowler

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

Episode 39: The Biden-Integrity Laffer Oct 28, 2020

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On today’s episode, Victor discusses the consequences of the final presidential debate, his new National Review essay comparing Trump and Biden, Anthony Bobulinski exposing the business practices of The Big Guy and his family, Trump and the polls, the black vote, the possible political impact of the riots in Philadelphia, and “Never Trump” handwringing.

This episode is produced by Sarah Schutte and is sponsored by the Bradley Foundation and its popular new video series, We the People.

Show Notes:

VDH: Trump vs. Biden: a Rundown
VDH: Trump Won the Debate, but Won Bigly the Post-Debate
NR: Anthony Bobulinski interviewed by Tucker Carlson
Fox News: Pollsters predict Trump Victory

Sponsors:
Bradley Foundation’s We the People home page
We the People video: Andrew C. McCarthy

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

Episode 38: The Tortoise Is Gaining on the Hare Oct 20, 2020

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On this episode, Victor discusses the ongoing Biden scandals, the media’s Biden protection racket, the tightening polls, Amazon’s Steele shut-down, the destruction of inherited institutions, the forthcoming presidential debate, advice to Candidate Trump, Rush Limbaugh’s discussion of his health, and the mindset of the elites who found themselves on Toobin’s smut-Zooming.

Today’s episode is produced by Sarah Schutte and is sponsored by the Bradley Foundation’s We the People Speaker Series.

Show Notes:

VDH: A Few Cracks in the Progressive Wall
VDH: Destroying the Institutions We Inherited
Rich Lowry: The Biden Protection Racket
Harsanyi: Amazon Prime Cancels Shelby Steele
Daily Mail: Lockdowns’ Lethal Toll Laid Bare
We the People video: Justin Danhof discusses the threat of shareholder resolutions

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

Episode 37: Muscular Politics, the Burisma Scandal, and the Scandal’s Scandal Oct 14, 2020

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On today’s episode, Victor discusses the emerging Joe/Hunter Biden “Burisma” scandal, his latest NR column, “The Fragments of a Civilization,” California’s push to consider slavery reparations, the woke, disastrous, and just-completed NBA season, Kamala Harris’s Veep debate and SCOTUS hearings performances, a new CDC study that finds a vast majority of COVID-afflicted are hard-core mask wearers, how Donald Trump himself might better make the case for Trump.

Show Notes:

VDH: The Fragments of a Civilization
VDH: California’s Illogical Reparations Bill
New York Post: Smoking-Gun Email Reveals How Hunter Biden Introduced Ukrainian Businessman to VP Dad
California Globe: New CDC Study Finds Majority of Those Infected with COVID-19 always Wore Masks
We the People video: Trent England discusses the importance of the Electoral College.

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

Sponsor:
The Bradley Foundation’s We the People Speaker Series.

Today’s episode is produced by Sarah Schutte.

Episode 36: Generals Foreign and Ancient Oct 06, 2020

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Making good on a promise to devote an episode to generals foreign and ancient, America’s premier military historian discusses the merits of Caesar, Hannibal, Napoleon, Suleiman, Themistocles, Bolivar, Epaminondas, and many more who may or may not deserve their reputations as battlefield geniuses. This episode is produced by Sarah Schutte and is sponsored by the American Federation for Children and it new website, FundMyChildNow.Com.

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