Week in Review - Reflections and Regressions

Join VDH and cohost Jack Fowler as they examine the matters of General Milley, nuclear pacts, border crisis, economic stagnation, and Minaj’s message of COVID misinformation.

VDH and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the destruction of civic culture, the return of tribalism, attacks on the middle class, the recall of Newsom, faulty science, and the loss of shame. A composition picture!

VDH discusses with Sami Winc Israel’s Iron Dome, Wuhan virus, and education in our public institutions. Animals, a historical perspective, completes the episode.

Victor Davis Hanson//American Greatness

The United States should be at its pinnacle of strength. It still produces more goods and services than any other nation—China included, which has a population over four times as large. Its fuel and food industries are globally preeminent, as are its graduate science, computer, engineering, medical, and technology university Read More »

Victor Davis Hanson//American Greatness

Deterrence is the ancient ability to scare somebody off from hurting you, your friends, or your interests—without a major war. Desire peace? Then be prepared for war. Or so the Romans believed. It’s an easily understood concept in the abstract. But deterrence still remains a mystical quality in the concrete … Read More »

Victor Davis Hanson//Eeyore’s Cabinet

Remembering When the Woke Awoke Woke is not new. Consider it an old IED buried and forgotten, but even when dormant an always latent explosive that any heavy traffic—that is, 2020—could finally ignite. Why? Decades-long devolution from citizenship to tribal ideologies explained why extremist groups found followers and felt no … VDH UltraReflections on 2020—the Worst Year in the Last Half-Century: Part One Read More »

Victor Davis Hanson//Eeyore’s Cabinet

The Silicon Valley Octopus Flexed its Tentacles In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the author describes a soulless world created by an authoritarian cadre that controlled even the thoughts of its subjects through massive electronic surveillance. An all-powerful state bureaucracy warped language, ideas, and history to convince and coerce the … VDH UltraReflections on 2020—the Worst Year in the Last Half-Century: Part Two Read More »

Peter Robinson//Uncommon Knowledge

Podcasting interview with General H. R. McMaster and military historian Victor Davis Hanson, both senior fellows at the Hoover Institution. In this frank, no-holds-barred conversation, they discuss the United States’ mission in Afghanistan: how it began, how it was conducted, and its ignominious end.

Wilfred M. McClay//The New Criterion

The title of “citizen” has lost much of the simple grandeur it once had. It deserves far better, and as Victor Davis Hanson shows in his learned, powerful, and troubling new book, The Dying Citizen, the steady devolution of citizenship speaks volumes about where we are today and where we … Citizens Lamed Read More »