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.'

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. 

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.

Victor takes on Joe Biden, golden-goose-strangler; the radical new rules imposed on post-America; 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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.  

On today's episode, Victor gives his take on the first Trump–Biden debate, Chris Wallace's moderating tilt, vaccine scare tactics, Amy Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court, new charges that Hillary Clinton orchestrated the Russia collusion hoax, the 490 B.C. Project, and Joe Biden's strange campaign. This episode is produced by Sarah Schutte and sponsored by the American Federation for Children and FundMyChildNow.Com.

On today's broadcast, special guest Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster (ret.) joins Victor to discuss his new book, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. VDH also explains his new NRO essay on the dangers of conventional wisdom. This episode is sponsored by Wyoming Catholic College and FundMyChildNow.Com, and is produced by Sarah Schutte.

On today's episode, Victor discusses California aflame (and the close call of his home), the “un-news” media, President Trump's Middle East foreign-policy wins, the presidential horserace 47 days out, the big-money Left planning and bankrolling post-election violence, and tensions between Greece and Turkey. This episode is produced by the Sarah Schutte, and sponsored by Wyoming Catholic College and Fatima, the Movie.

On today's episode, Victor discusses Joe Biden's paradoxes, Donald Trump's appeal to minority voters, America's hamstrung police, the wild and much-repeated claims by The Atlantic that Donald Trump insulted America's war dead, California's continuing descent, and the mistake that was (and remains) the lockdowns. Today's episode is sponsored by Claremont Institute's The American Story podcast series and the new book by Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Speaking for Myself.

On today's episode, Victor discusses silence about violence, Joe Biden's trip to Pittsburgh, Donald Trump's trip to Wisconsin, Portland madness, British SJWs shocked by Rule Britannia, and internal tensions among Red China's leaders This episode is produced by Sarah Schutte and sponsored by Fatima, the Movie, and Claremont Institute's terrific The American Story podcast series.

On today's episode, Professor Hanson grades the recent Republican Convention and President Trump's acceptance speech; explains the motivations of thugs amok-running in American streets; the emerging political effects of the violence and Joe Biden's response to it; profiles California's emerging New Dark Ages; discusses the latest attempts by pro sports to kowtow to BLM; and remarks on author J. K. Rowling's continuing public battle against the cancel culture. This episode is sponsored by the Claremont Institute's new podcast series, The American Story, and the Bradley Foundation's Conceived in Liberty video series.

On this new episode, Victor discusses the massive issues and events and election influences of 2020, the Democratic assault on the Constitution and American political traditions, the calls for wealth taxes in a browned-out California, Joe Biden's narrowing lead in the polls, Michelle Obama's dishonest convention speech, John Kasich's whinery, postal conspiracy theories, and the thuggery of Black Lives Matters in the streets of Portland and Chicago. This episode is sponsored by the Claremont Institute's new podcast series, The American Story, and the Bradley Foundation's Conceived in Liberty video series. 

On this new episode, Victor discusses Kamala Harris winning the Democrat veepstakes, reparations, the thin veneer of civilization, the end of civil rights as we knew it, the A-bomb at 75, and the COVID nursing-home apocalypse. This episode is produced by Sarah Schutte and is sponsored by the Claremont Institute's new podcast series, The American Story, and the Bradley Foundation's Conceived in Liberty video series. 

People have to take vacations, even eminent military historians. So in this episode, recorded in late July as we anticipated a lapse, Victor discussed some of America's premier generals, and what made them great -- or, not so great. Among those discussed: George Washington, U.S. Grant, Dwight Eisenhower, William Sherman, George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, Matthew Ridgway, and some of the more prominent Native American chief: Cochise, Geronimo, and Sitting Bull. And a little shade is thrown at Benedict Arnold.

On today's episode, Victor discusses the reasons and consequences of keeping America's classrooms locked, free speech on campus, the NFL and NBA prioritizing woke, Donald Trump's interview with Chris Wallace, and what 2021 might look like in Joe Biden's America.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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. 

Victor talks about the truth behind the Brothers Cuomo (and the alleged competency of the one ruling from Albany); Joe Biden's imitation of an albatross; Obama in the discomfort of the collusion spotlight; Devin Nunes proven-rightness; and -- given the recent marking of the 75th Anniversary of VE Day -- the idea that victory, for the Allies, was not all so inevitable.