The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Episode 25: The Histrionic / Schizophrenic / Passive-Aggressive / Braggadocio / Weeping Woke, Explained Jul 14, 2020

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On today’s episode, Victor discusses his syndicated column on the schizophrenic woke rioters, his new NR essay on Jacobin Leftists getting edgy, the boomerang heading towards NBA and NFL virtue-mongerers, Bastille Day-generated reflections on the French Revolution’s enduring influence, Gavin Newsom’s dis-openings for the Golden State, the meaning of contender Kanye West, and the Trump / Fauci contretemps.

We thank the Bradley Foundation’s new Conceived in Liberty series for sponsoring this episode.

Show Notes:

VDH: Peak Jacobinism?
VDH: The Fragility of the Woke
John Fund: Evaluating Fauci’s Record
Michael Fumento: Dr. Fauci’s Recurring Disease ‘Nightmares’ Often Don’t Materialize
Mairead McArdle: California Announces Major Reopening Rollback
Rich Lowry: New York Is Not-a COVID-19 Model
Bradley Foundation “Conceived in Liberty” series: Episode One: Kimberly Strassel
VDH: The Case for Trump.
VDH: The Second World Wars

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

The Victor Davis Hanson podcast is produced by Sarah Schutte.

Episode 24: Americas: Three. Realities: Two. Contextualization Standard: One. Year: Zero. Jul 07, 2020

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On this episode, Victor discusses how Joe Biden has fared having emerged from his basement, President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech and his executive orders on monuments, universities hell-bent for obsolescence, and the Cultural Revolution’s Year Zero. The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is produced by Sarah Schutte.

Show Notes:

VDH: Universities Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Obsolescence
VDH: Year Zero
President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech.
Executive Order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes
VDH: The Case for Trump.
VDH: The Second World Wars

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

Episode 23: Basement Politics Jun 30, 2020

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On today’s program, Victor discusses the cognitive challenges of Joe Biden; the former Veep’s basement strategy — and how Trump needs to get Biden up through the bilco doors; how November will be about the Angry Voter; Blue State leaders “neo-confederate” approach to mayhem; John Roberts, the intimidated jurist; a Trump second-term agenda; recalling California governor Gavin Newsom; and reflections on the Fall of France on the 80th anniversary. The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast is produced by Sarah Schutte.

Show Notes:

VDH: When States Go Wild
VDH: 2020 Election Will Be a Contest of the Angry
VDH: The Strategies of Dementia
VDH: When the Bidexit?
VDH: Saving Higher Education
State of California: Newsom Recall Calendar
Daniel J. Mahoney: Revisiting France’s Strange Defeat
Marc Bloch: Strange Defeat
VDH: The Case for Trump.
VDH: The Second World Wars

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

Episode 22: Limitations of Statues Jun 23, 2020

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On this week’s episode, Victor discusses statue-toppling; the self-cannibalizing appetite of cultural revolutions; Juneteenth; President Trump’s new immigration order; chaos; John Bolton’s book; favorable winds that Donald Trump needs to harness to prevail in November; an attack of his criticism of retired generals; and how in the era of pandemics and riots, the city mouse is envious of his country cousin.

Show Notes:

VDH: Triumph of the Country Mouse
VDH: A Presidential-Campaign Simile: Storm-Tossed Galleon
VDH: How Cultural Revolutions Die – or Not
VDH: Not-So-Swift Smear
VDH on Tucker Carlson Tonight (June 22): Video
Mark Krikorian on NRO: Trump extends the foreign-worker Ban
How to order the new paperback edition of The Case for Trump.

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

Episode 21: Winding the Coup Coup Clock Jun 15, 2020

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On today’s episode, Victor discusses his forthcoming NR piece on the emerging, partisan Military-Intelligence Complex; statue-toppling and base-renaming; the ironies and paradoxes of revolutions; Senator Graham’s planned Judiciary hearings on Flynn and collusion; BLM being a Marxist front; media madness; and the Seattle CHAZ scene.

Show Notes:

VDH: The Bitter Irony of Revolutions
VDH: On Name-Changing and Statue-Toppling
Andrew C. McCarthy: Senate Collusion Theater
Jack Fowler: Black Lives Matter: A Thing of the Left, Anchored on a Cop-Hate Strategy
Frontier Center: 2016 report on Black Lives Matter
Matt Taibbi: The American Press Is Destroying Itself
John Fund: Seattle’s CHAZ: Non-conformist Utopia, or Politically Correct Hell?
How to order the new paperback edition of The Case for Trump.

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

Episode 20: General Elect Tricks Jun 09, 2020

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On this week’s episode, Victor discusses the media coming out unabashedly Left, the nexus of riots and coronavirus, the generals versus Trump, China — No More Mr. Nice Commie, and much more.This episode is sponsored Hoover Institution, publisher of Michael Auslin’s new book Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific.

Show Notes:

VDH: China Isn’t Letting a Pandemic Go to Waste
VDH: Not-so-Retiring Retired Military Leaders
The College Fix: After Tweet Supporting ‘Good Police Officers,’- Arizona State Revokes Journalism Dean Offer
Media Research Center: 60 Per Cent of Voters Believe Some in Media Want Shutdown to Drag on to Hurt Trump in November
Daniel Tenreiro’s NR review of Asia’s New Geopolitics
How to order the new paperback edition of The Case for Trump.

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

Episode 19: Riots, Basement Joe, Failing Andy, Twittering Trump Jun 02, 2020

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On this week’s edition, Victor shares his thoughts on Donald Trump’s announcement of military force to counter riots, the president’s lack of focus, the paradox that is Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo’s latest failures, Tucker Carlson’s clobbering of conservative lecturers, America’s standing in the world, and lefty media sanctimony.

Show Notes:

VDH: Biden as Paradox
Tucker Carlson (video): When the Mobs Came, They Abandoned Us
Heather Mac Donald in City Journal: The Terrifying Collapse of the Rule of Law
David Bahnsen in NR: Boiling Over
Walter Russell Meade in Wall Street Journal: The World Waits Out Trump
New England Journal of Medicine: Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era
Colonel Brooke Nihart, author of the original U.S. Military Code of Conduct.
Amazon link for The Second World Wars
How to order the new paperback edition of The Case for Trump.

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

Episode 18: The Remains of an Administration May 26, 2020

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On this week’s episode, Victor discusses the emptiness and diminished legacy of the Obama administration — and gilded-Socialism cashed in post-presidency; the ACLU’s foray into fighting due process on campus; Stanford colleague Michael Levitt’s told-you-so warnings about pandemic predictions and the deadly impact of lockdowns; India’s standing as a U.S. ally; and Joe Biden’s expectations of Black Americans.

Show Notes:

This week’s episode has been sponsored by our friends at the Hoover Institution.
VDH: “The Remains of an Administration“
NR: ‘You Ain’t Black’ if You Can’t Decide Between Me and Trump
Daily Wire: Nobel Laureate Scientist: Lockdown may Have Cost More Lives than It Saved
Reuters: India-China border standoff
NR: The ACLU’s Absurd Title IX Lawsuit
Order link for Michael Auslin’s Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific.
Amazon link for The Second World Wars
How to order the new paperback edition of The Case for Trump.

Contact:
@VDHanson
@JackFowler

Special Episode: Warfare [17] May 22, 2020

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Today on The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast, Rich Lowry takes over hosting duties to interview Victor on this special Memorial Day weekend episode.

Episode 16: Credentialed Criminality May 19, 2020

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On this week’s episode, as Memorial Day approaches, Victor discusses how the “best and brightest” have destroyed evidence, altered documents, lied, leaked, and pled amnesia; the inspirational lessons an America emerging from a pandemic lockdown might take from World War II; woke billionaires lecturing; how America cares for the remains of those who made the ultimate sacrifice; and about his dad and his namesake — two WWII warriors who endured hell, one of whom lost his life on Okinowa.

This week’s episode has been sponsored by our friends at the Hoover Institution.

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