The Victor Davis Hanson Show

Venetian Wars, Soros DAs and Leftist Angst

20 May 2023

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about the Venetian Wars of the 16th century and the Battle of Lepanto, Chicago ...

Current Political Cacophony

19 May 2023

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Abstract: Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they look into Daniel Penny's indictment, the Durham Report, Biden's speech at Howard Unive...

Lefty Laws, Educated Rustics, and Military Madness

18 May 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about new laws from the Left, a military history program at the Hoover Institution, c...

Making Sense of Geopolitical Discord and Domestic Chaos

16 May 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler in a discussion of the border and the US-Latin America diplomacy, the Left never pays the price, Danie...

Conquistadors and Border Disruption

13 May 2023

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss interviewing Trump, swarming the border, the Spanish conquest of the Aztec e...

Tucker, Trump and the Debt

12 May 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for the news of the week: Tucker joins Twitter, the Verdict on Trump in the Carroll civil lawsuit, Biden...

Lies and Liars

11 May 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about sex change operations for minors, construction of sex and race, the logical con...

Revolutionary Culture and Its Critics

09 May 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for a look at the Biden interview, the NY Subway death, Budweiser's advertising boohoo, counter-revolu...

The Hundred Years War and Our Domestic Conflict

06 May 2023

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc in a conversation about the Hundred Year's War, growing tired of our progressive culture of lies...

The Spider's Web: Inside the Biden Administration

05 May 2023

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This Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc includes thoughts on war, deficits, bribery and perjury at the instigation of B...

Toxicity: Bureaucrats and Policy

04 May 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler take on current issues: good credit scores now bad, Fauci’s and Weingarten’s lies, deb...

Liberal Liabilities, Conservative Assets

02 May 2023

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they talk about Kamala’s career, Tucker’s firing, Hunter’s daughter, Supreme Court le...

The Fall of Constantinople and Current Military Matters

29 Apr 2023

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about current affairs in Sudan, Syria, and Ukraine, and VDH explains the fall...

Fired Up

28 Apr 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they discuss the recent firing of Tucker Carlson, Biden's bid in the 2024 race, Green agenda and the ...

The Universe of Our Universities

27 Apr 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to explore university culture leading our tech world, thoughts on DEI admissions and their consequence...

So Many Outrages and Some Wisdom

25 Apr 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss foreboding Sierra snowpack, the matrix of the Democrat's scandals, Asians and Jews...

The Old, the Conservative, and the Crusades

22 Apr 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this weekend episode: the Democratic Party's old face, the history of the crusades, and conservativi...

Elon, Immigration, and the Uncivil

21 Apr 2023

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In this news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc analyze the Dominion case against Fox, Elon Musk's thoughts, border solutions, and insi...

Independence Day Goes Woke

20 Apr 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Jack Fowler as they discuss PACs pushing back against Donald Trump in the 2024 election, Michigan wanting to give...

The Destruction of American Cities

18 Apr 2023

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On this episode, listen as Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Jack Fowler discuss the left's destruction of some of America's greatest cities through the...

Mecca and the History of Islamic Warfare

15 Apr 2023

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss law fare in Washington DC, the Islamic wars of expansion, and Biden's diplom...

Law, Leaks, and Left Strategy

14 Apr 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this Friday's news round-up: Tennessee legislator Justin Pearson, leaker at the Department of Defens...

To the Left-wing, N-U-T-S!

13 Apr 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss having it both ways on Afghanistan, chaos in France, the origin of the word "chaos", a...

Ideology Kills People

11 Apr 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine our revolutionary Left-wing ideology: storming the Tennessee legislature, WNBA and...

Invasion, Migration? Some Thoughts

08 Apr 2023

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the barbarian invasions that helped topple the Roman Empire. This is bo...

The Razor's Edge

07 Apr 2023

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson as he talks with cohost Sami Winc about Trump's indictment and then analyzes Democratic policy from tenuous diplomacy...

Immigration, Mass Murderer, and Campaign Strategy

06 Apr 2023

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In this episode, VDH and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Mayorkas' border policy and testimony, media in the aftermath of Covenant School, DeSantis and Pen...

Fallout from Our Two Systems of Justice

04 Apr 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler who discuss the Trump indictment and its consequences for and reflection in our political culture. VDH...

Covid and the Future of Viruses: Dr. Steven Quay

01 Apr 2023

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson interviews Dr. Steven Quay on the recent news on covid's origins, publishing in the scientific community,...

From School Shooting to Artificial Intelligence

31 Mar 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc to analyze the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, the IRS targeting Matt Taibbi, Xi Jinping says ...

Destroy Meritocracy, Destroy Civilization

30 Mar 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler take on the accreditation boards of colleges, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion officers, the d...

Suspicion: the Polls and the Panderers of the Deep State

28 Mar 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to examine Trump's rise in the polls, Biden's approval ratings, Fauci's move to private life and other...

Civil War and Civility

25 Mar 2023

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In this weekend edition, take a walk through the Roman Civil Wars with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc, a topic bookended by white America dr...

Candidates and Warriors

24 Mar 2023

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Sami Winc examine Alvin Bragg's pending indictment of Trump, Trump and DeSantis fight, and an update on the ...

Bankrupt and Absurd: What's Doing Us In?

23 Mar 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the Stanford Law School incident, Charlie Kirk assailed by UC Davis president and ...

Biden Grifters Diagnosis, Ukraine War Prognosis

21 Mar 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for the latest news: the impact of the Trump indictment, Biden family China nexus, banking crisis foll...

The Many Worlds of Roger Kimball

17 Mar 2023

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Victor Davis Hanson has a conversation with Roger Kimball about his directorship of Encounter publishing and The New Criterion, the craziness on campu...

The Twitter Files Testimonies

16 Mar 2023

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On this episode, listen as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Michael Caine's performance in the 1964 war film Zulu, the Twitter Files...

The People's Republic of Palo Alto

14 Mar 2023

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On this episode, listen as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank, Dr. Fauci vs. Robert Redfield an...

On the Cheap

13 Mar 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about California storming, Kaepernick and Prince Harry childhood memories, Mexico's Obr...

Capitol Videos and Punic Wars

11 Mar 2023

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For the weekend edition, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc on the Mexican border kidnapping, WalMart closing stores due to historic thef...

Election Integrity: A Conversation with Cleta Mitchell

10 Mar 2023

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In this interview, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Cleta Mitchell about her profession and career devoted to election integrity and ballot transparency...

The Unnaturals: Fauci, Lightfoot, and Newsom

09 Mar 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for the top stories: China's military build up, Fauci backpedals, Lori Lightfoot loses, Robert Kennedy...

Trump, South Africa, and Dilbert

07 Mar 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Trump's speech at CPAC, South Africa in decline, Scott Adams "Dilbert" cartoonist ...

Comeuppance, Conquest and Terror

04 Mar 2023

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Wray and Garland testimonies to the House, Alexander the Great's li...

Vietnam Revisited: Conversation With Mark Moyar

03 Mar 2023

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In this interview, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Mark about his new book "Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968." Access to North Vietnamese s...

The American Pandemic

02 Mar 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler analyze those things plaguing our culture and politics: from covid policy and regulations,...

Men of Faith and Family and Our Hallowed Institutions

28 Feb 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Jimmy Carter's life and legacy, destroying meritocracy in our institutions, and though...

Cabinet Weary and the Peloponnesian War

25 Feb 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc in an analysis of the current presidential cabinet miss-steps, the history of the Peloponnesian War, and...

The Unclear Strategy in Ukraine

24 Feb 2023

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Listen as Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Sami Winc discuss Joe Biden's trip to Ukraine and the lack of a clear strategy for what the end goal is. Se...

Artificial Intelligence and Human Error

23 Feb 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about artificial intelligence, Lemon's Nikki Haley not "in her prime" comment, lying ...

Planes, Trains, and the Abortion Bandwagon

21 Feb 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler for some fiery discussion of the Biden-Emmitt Till nexus with East Palestine and airline accidents, fe...

Military Matters and FBI Racket

18 Feb 2023

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc dive deep into the significance of China's spy balloon, the Persian Wars, and FBI co...

From the Sea of Galilee: Iddo Netanyahu on Israeli Politics

17 Feb 2023

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Iddo Netanyahu, playwright, author, doctor, previews the domestic and foreign challenges for Israel with Victor Davis Hanson.See Privacy Policy at htt...

House Investigates, Wray Betrays, and DeSantis Educates

16 Feb 2023

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss House subpoena requests, Christopher Wray's betrayal of his office, DeSantis' efforts ...

Cage Fight with Bruce Thornton

15 Feb 2023

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Victor Davis Hanson interviews writer and scholar Bruce Thornton on his recent edited book "Cage Fight" about civilian-military tensions from antiquit...

Muddling, Befuddling, Fetterman, Trump, and Fauci

14 Feb 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Biden's performance from SOTU to Super Bowl talk, Fetterman's recent political mov...

Landmines and Reckonings

11 Feb 2023

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This weekend episode Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc devote to the various landmines that may trip up the Biden Administration. He then talks...

State of the Union

10 Feb 2023

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson as he talks with cohost Sami Winc about Biden's State of the Union speech, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and a Ukraine ...

Our Broken Kaleidoscope

09 Feb 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the recent diplomacy of Turkey, India, and Ukraine. Then they examine transgendere...

Invading US Air Space and Other Cases of Overreach

07 Feb 2023

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Jack Fowler about the Chinese spy balloon, and pro-lifers at the Smithsonian asked to remove their hats. They lo...

Spy Balloon, Squad Rage, and Proxy Wars

04 Feb 2023

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the Chinese spy balloon, Ilhan Omar's committee woes, Hunter's lawsuit, and ...

Has the Tide Changed for the Left?

03 Feb 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc continue discussion on the Biden files, and look at Columbia Journalism Review's article on ...

Things a Little Murky in Politics

02 Feb 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Jill Biden's influence, the attack on Paul Pelosi, Florida's rejection of an Afric...

The Likes of Dickensian London

31 Jan 2023

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler pursue the racism of the word "the," riots in Atlanta and the Antifa nexus, and the war in Ukraine.See Priv...

Politics in America

28 Jan 2023

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about permanent Washington power, the problem of the FBI and other agencies, Adam Schiff's complaints, t...

Stupid, Sloppy, Crazy: Your Call

27 Jan 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc of new questions about the Biden syndicate, Ukraine war and US arms stockade, woke in...

How to Balkanize a Country

26 Jan 2023

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler travel down the road of reparations for African Americans and discrimination against Asian students. They e...

The Dangerous and the Deadly

24 Jan 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler look at the ever-changing Biden files, what is going on in Ukraine, Dobbs opinion leaks, a...

Trouble: Mexico, Davos, and California

21 Jan 2023

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc examine the problems in Mexico, Davos dandies and dallies, and California's unmistakable mistakes.See Privacy...

Landmines and Legacies

20 Jan 2023

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk with cohost Sami Winc about the Biden files and Hunter scams, reparations in San Francisco, two new liberal arts un...

The Thankless Task

19 Jan 2023

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler look back at Devin Nunes investigation, and discuss all the forbidden words and Jewish voters moving to the...

What Comes Around Goes Around

17 Jan 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine more on the Biden files, Schiff and Swalwell relieved of committee work, Buttigieg...

Investigating Agencies, Turkey's Diplomacy, and Culture Wars

14 Jan 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc examine the recent rhetoric from the Left as the House begins its investigations, Turkey's current ...

California Water and the Biden Files

13 Jan 2023

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about California Water on a very wet year, Biden at the border and his classified documents, and renamin...

Bunglers and Crackerjacks

12 Jan 2023

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Bolton's political ambitions, military history programs, and Prince Harry's complaint factory again...

The Political Spirit or Spirited Politics

10 Jan 2023

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Trump's influence on the Republican Party, the Supreme Court's role in J6 riot, border policy,...

War and Economic Superpower

07 Jan 2023

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Kevin McCarthy's "pending" speakership, the Russian and Ukrainian war objectives, and China...

Standards, Identity Politics, and Covid

05 Jan 2023

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talking about the falling standards in our universities; Michelle Obama leads them to identity...

Political Deception and Its History

03 Jan 2023

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore the long line of deception not just in current democratic politics, but also in an...

Ending the Year With Things to Look For and At

31 Dec 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson explains his favorites to cohost Sami Winc: actors, novels, musicians, movies that are not Westerns, websites, and po...

Back To Reality

30 Dec 2022

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the top stories at the end of 2022: George Santos' lies, Ukraine and Putin, status o...

Masks and Mimes of Politics

29 Dec 2022

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler take on Stanford University's forbidden words and woke-ism in education broadly, the anti-...

The Known and Unknown

27 Dec 2022

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler on Biden's Christmas speech, Jan 6 Committee findings, the omnibus spending bill that didn't ...

Cultural Clarity on Christmas

24 Dec 2022

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for this episode that looks at some recent new on SBF, the FBI and Zelensky's speech. Then VDH turns to ...

Peaking Through Fingers: A Look at the Decline of Education

22 Dec 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore Japan's new defense strategy, and Harvard's Roland Fryer and Cornell's students-against-grades in a...

McCarthy, Trump, and Musk: All Contested

20 Dec 2022

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to analyze McCarthy's potential speakership, Trump cards, the border and fentanyl, the psychology of t...

Some Positive Actions To Undo the Left's Destruction

19 Dec 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about Musk's investigation of Twitter archives and California reparations task force. They then discuss some ...

From Non-Binary Suitcase Thief to Safe Space Pathos

15 Dec 2022

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Join us! Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Sam Brinton's eccentricities, McCarthy's plans to subpoena FBI agents, Fauci's lying legac...

Prisoner Swaps and Shadow Banning

14 Dec 2022

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc talk about the Griner prisoner swap, Elon Musk's method, and Germany's new natural gas line and arr...

The Other Road

13 Dec 2022

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Listen in with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler on Herschel Walker's defeat, Twitter dumps, university quality, Trump's recent actions and r...

Woke and Its Fallout

10 Dec 2022

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In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about the origins and impact of wokeism, which leads naturally to Elon Musk disturbi...

Boondoggles and Bombers

08 Dec 2022

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Biden's build-back boondoggle, liberal education's slide backward, euthanasia in C...

Trials, Psychodramas, and Captain Queeg

06 Dec 2022

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss Kevin McCarthy's candidacy for speaker, Jimmy Lai's trial, and Left psychodram...

Senator Marsha Blackburn on the Republican Path Forward

05 Dec 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson interviews Marsha Blackburn on the current issues in the Senate.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri...

The Latest from Elon to China and Ukraine

03 Dec 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Elon Musk and the Left, China protests, Arizona the purple state and the Ukraine.See Pri...

A Man of Iron

02 Dec 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with Troy Senik about his new book "A Man of Iron" a biography of President Grover Cleveland.See Privacy Policy at https://a...

Free Speech and Its Discontents

01 Dec 2022

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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about an Academic Freedom Conference at Stanford, classical v. therapeutic education,...

Crime and Punishment: How the Left Weaponized Our Government

29 Nov 2022

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they analyze new special prosecutor Jack Smith investigating Trump, Trump's dinner with Ye a.k.a. K...

Scott Atlas: Ordeal and Triumph

28 Nov 2022

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson interview Scott Atlas on his struggles with the Left, the administration and Stanford faculty during the Covid crisis.Se...