The Victor Davis Hanson Show

Russia, China and Other Global Players

21 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to Sami Winc and Victor Davis Hanson as they discuss and analyze recent events and policies in Ukraine, Taiwan, Cuba, Sweden and Finland.See Pr...

The World in Revolution

19 May 2022

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they talk about the Durham investigation, revolutions and revolutionaries, the Buffalo shooting, an...

China, Baby Food, and Distractions

17 May 2022

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they chew over China's outlook, baby food shortages, Kevin McCarthy et al. and the Jan. 6 Commissio...

It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

14 May 2022

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson discuss with cohost Sami Winc the conditions and prospects of our youth as they prepare to graduate, Boeing HQ leaving C...

Means and Methods of the Left

13 May 2022

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Join us. Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about the war in Ukraine, protestors of our Supreme Court justices, the exasperated Americans, ...

The Disastrous Effects of Biden's Economics

12 May 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler weigh in on inflation and high prices in the Biden economy. They also discuss the left's increasing a...

GOP Election Wins Begin and The Return of Trump Tweets

11 May 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Jack Fowler about the JD Vance victory, Elon Musk's decision to allow Donald Trump back on Twitter ...

The Left, Leaks, and "Disinformation" Czars

07 May 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Jack Fowler about the leak from the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, violence in America from th...

Victor's Favorite Novels, TV Shows, and Movies.

05 May 2022

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Listen in as co host Jack Fowler asks Victor about his top films, literary works, and TV shows of the past.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pri...

The American Diet: Capitalism, Truth, and the GOP

02 May 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about corporate America, climate change, and the Left's fears of the Republican Party with ...

An Interview with Classicist and Military Historian Barry Strauss

30 Apr 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson and Barry Strauss discuss his recent book, The War That Made the Roman Empire, and his friendship and experiences with Victor...

Friday News Round Up - Elon Musk's Twitter and Biden's Inflation

29 Apr 2022

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Listen to Victor and Sami as they talk about Elon Musk, The Democratic Party, and the crisis of rising inflation.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.c...

Burnout: Leftism Fatigues America

28 Apr 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk over the destructiveness of Fauci's mask mandate and other Left lies that destroyed people's lives, th...

Who Holds the Cards?

26 Apr 2022

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson discuss with cohost Jack Fowler Musk's offer for Twitter, Sharpton's new cynicism, DeSantis v. Disney, Never-Trump-it...

Couldn't, Shouldn't Be President

23 Apr 2022

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On this weekend edition, cohost Sami Winc asks Victor Davis Hanson to talk about historical figures who tried but failed to become president: Aaron Bu...

The Turning Tide

22 Apr 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the state and study of history, Putin's nuclear poker, the border failure, Ron DeSantis' many fi...

The Left from China to California

21 Apr 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss China’s lockdowns and China’s view of Taiwan given the Ukraine war, Project Veritas’ revelations of ...

The Tipping Point

19 Apr 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explain Al Sharpton’s exploits, the Democratic Party’s fix and its moves going forward, an...

From Bombs to the Bible

16 Apr 2022

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Listen in this holy weekend to Victor Davis Hanson discuss the latest news and the Gospels: including Elon Musk, Frank James, the sinking of the Moskv...

Crumbling Bastions of Left-Wing Power

14 Apr 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler analyze French politics, California's ban of official travel to Florida, non-enforcement of Ti...

The Biden Panopticon

12 Apr 2022

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they reveal all the shadowy corners of Biden's career and family syndicate: from Hunter's antics to...

Wars, Politics and Education

09 Apr 2022

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Join Victor Davis Hanson for his weekend edition with Sami Winc. They compare Soviet-Finnish War (1939-40) with the Ukraine War, the city-states of An...

The Many Puzzles of Public Policy and Perception

08 Apr 2022

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Join us as Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about how the Ukraine War might end, racial disconnections, midterm elections, the "America...

Tune In Before You Tune Out

07 Apr 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Jack Fowler on give-aways to the transgendered in Palm Springs, on Democrats needing the 2 million illegal const...

From Pence to Palin

05 Apr 2022

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Join with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler take on Mike Pence's "Freedom Agenda," Kamala and Joe's speaking gaffes, Democrat's declining con...

The Middle East on the Mind

02 Apr 2022

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This time Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about Victors travels in the Middle East including his brush with death in Libya, the vortex o...

It's Not About Hunter Biden

01 Apr 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about Hunter Biden's reappearance, The War in Ukraine, Biden's new budget, Ginni Thomas, and DeSantis ...

Words, Slaps and Mishaps

31 Mar 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler chew on non-binary language, an Academy Award slap, BLM rioters v. police sentencing and censu...

Forgetting the Middle Class Is Everything

29 Mar 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler reveal the necessity of the middle class in their analysis of Biden's speech and gaffes, the m...

Finding the Path Forward

25 Mar 2022

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In this Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about current events: Ukraine, Ketanji Brown Jackson, The COVID wind down...

The Excess of Truth

24 Mar 2022

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This time Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about student debt, Zelensky's accusatory efforts to solicit help, Iran, the spike in anti-S...

Why Free Speech is So Costly to Republicans

22 Mar 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson and host Jack Fowler mull over topics like the recent shoot out at the border, the protest at Yale Law School, America's Free Spee...

Saturday Serendipity

19 Mar 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the difference between Greek and Latin languages, the history of aircraft carriers in the world,...

From Ukraine to Actium

18 Mar 2022

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In the Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about the war in Ukraine, Jussie Smollett, Oil Prices and the Battle of Actium.Se...

Three Gnomes and a Garden Without Treasurers

17 Mar 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Biden, Harris, Smollett, the polls and policies. Polls show Americans waking up to the Left.See Pri...

Confronting the Left

15 Mar 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Project Veritas's new sting, Ron DeSantis's new law, how the left abandoned appeasemen...

Water or How We Survive

12 Mar 2022

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The Weekend Edition is a walk through water projects from Ancient Greece and Rome to the modern crisis in California. Everyone should listen to Victor...

Wars and Culture Conflicts

11 Mar 2022

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On the Friday News Roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about the state of war in Ukraine, Generation Z, civil disobedience, and the...

Classics, Myths, Inflation and Disease

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discussion the importance of a classical education, BLM mythologies, prioritizing military spending, and Co...

Standing Up to Putin and Other Analysis

08 Mar 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with Jack Fowler about Conservative perspectives on the war in Ukraine, Russians cancelled for lack of vocal criticism of Pu...

Tanks in Ukraine and in History

05 Mar 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about tanks in Putin's war with Ukraine and then examines the history of tanks.See Privacy Policy at h...

Looking Into the Cauldron

04 Mar 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about the State of the Union address, Ukraine, China, Iran and Germany.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co...

The OTUS Among Us

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

POTUS, VPOTUS, and nominee for SCOTUS -- Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler look at the record and at other things that reveal America asunder...

Strength and Deterrence

01 Mar 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine the war in Ukraine, from the inspiring Ukrainian war effort to Volodymyr Zelensky's record, Putin's...

Our Historian Thucydides

26 Feb 2022

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk with Sami Winc about Thucydides and moments in his History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles' funeral oration...

From Ukraine to California

25 Feb 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Ukraine crisis and California's crises. They finish with J.K. Rowlings and the culture wars....

Domestic Dystopia

24 Feb 2022

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Transgender athletes, China connections, San Francisco recall, African-American unemployment: listen to analysis by Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Ja...

A Helpless, Weeping Child and Other International Issues

22 Feb 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explore the motives of Putin, the ideas of Conservative nationalism, Trudeau's folly, Jan. 6 or the emptine...

The Elite's Downfall and the Truckers' Uprising

17 Feb 2022

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Jack and Victor talk about the elite's accomplishments, the Canadian truckers' idealism and Americans' confidence in the military.See Privacy Policy a...

Street People, Masks, and Crackpipes

15 Feb 2022

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler talk over the streets of San Francisco, Stacey Abram's call racism, the politics of masks, crack pipes a...

Under the Rock of History

12 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the Saturday edition, Victor Davis Hanson talks about many misconceptions of World War II and some modern misconception about inflations, Obama, an...

Surveillance, Supreme Court, Censorship and More

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In their Friday news round-up, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the surveillance of congressmen after Jan. 6, Supreme Court justices, ...

Trouble Here and in England

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about trouble at 10 Downing Street, a crime wave in the US, Putin's cost-benefit analysis, a...

Zucker, Truckers, and Things That Make You Pucker

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A look at the popular dissatisfaction with the direction of America, Truckers protest in Canada, the Zucker resignation, Whoopi's transgressions, and ...

1960s: Looking Back and Forward at Counter-Culture

05 Feb 2022

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Inspired by recent critique of Joe Rogan by artist Neil Young, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc take us back to the 1960s where Young was a le...

Leaks, Protest and Party Politics

04 Feb 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc on the week's stories: leaks on Hunter Biden's Burisma ties and on the disastrous pull-out from Afghan...

Crises: From Ukraine to the University

03 Feb 2022

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The Ukraine crisis tests NATO, Wokism devastates culture, and universities are destroying a generation: all this and more with Victor Davis Hanson and...

Symptoms of a Breakdown

01 Feb 2022

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and his cohost Jack Fowler discussing the impact of illegal immigration, the political significance of the candidate ...

Table Talk

29 Jan 2022

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson talk with Sami Winc about the Plutarch (46-119AD), his work and his legacy.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priva...

Ukraine in Crisis - Who Will Help?

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Biden, Pelosi, Clyburn et al., the ossified Democratic leadership and their strategy for 2022, the Ukrainian Crisis, and Neil Young wants off a Joe-Ro...

Upside Down and Inside Out

27 Jan 2022

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Biden's press conference confuses, election reform and Build Back Better struggle, Biden's family is more indictable than Trump's, what if Republicans...

Givings and Misgivings

25 Jan 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Jack Fowler about why Jordan Peterson quit the university, VDH's own experience working at a Californian State U...

Systems Collapse

22 Jan 2022

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as they explore "systems collapse" after Biden's first year. VDH brings the whole year into historical p...

Biden's Unpopularity and the Filibuster

21 Jan 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Sami Winc talks about Biden's dropping poll numbers and Democratic strategy, the voting rights bill and f...

Covid 19 Policy Climax

20 Jan 2022

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss the Supreme Court ruling on mandates, Rand Paul's challenge to Fauci in Senate hearing...

The transmogrification of Biden

18 Jan 2022

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VDH and Jack Fowler Talk about Biden's political collapse, the left's obsession with voting rights, and Hillary Clinton resurfacing.See Privacy Policy...

The Cry Racism: Will It Go the Way of Me Too?

15 Jan 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about the Left’s racialized policies and agenda and the impact on the coming elections. VDH also expla...

The Return of Trump?

14 Jan 2022

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 Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc as VDH talks about Trump in 2022 and 2024 and what Conservative campaign commercials should target...

The Classicist: Reflections on Unsustainable Pathologies

13 Jan 2022

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk over the Holmes-Theranos case, demonization of immunologist Robert Malone, the pathology of the ungrac...

The Traditionalist: Needing Red Americans

11 Jan 2022

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss New York City's new DA’s serious-crimes-only policy, Chicago teachers union's Covid ...

Thebes: When Defeat Eviscerates Culture

08 Jan 2022

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After a short epilogue to Jan. 6 craze, Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc discuss the history of Thebes, its destruction in the 4th century, and its l...

The Bite of the Scorpion

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

VDH shares his views with Sami Winc on Jan. 6 and the FBI, universities going online, social media censors, the fate of the Democratic Party, and Eliz...

The Classicist: Winds, Whirlwinds and Coup Porn

06 Jan 2022

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In this episode Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explain the compromise of military excellence due to the Left’s agenda, the Left consumed...

The Traditionalist: Getting It Right

04 Jan 2022

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about the consequences of Biden’s weakness, COVID truths, Fauci’s lies, and the attack o...

Eyes Wide Open for 2022

01 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

To ring in the New Year, Victor Davis Hanson and his cohost Sami Winc discuss 2021 courts cases, Russian hoaxes, Transgendered athletes, China, milita...

From Biden Diary to College Censors

31 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss "privileged material" in the Okeefe Project Veritas case, Zuckerberg's millions and walls, the Manchi...

The Classicist: Unappealing Agendas

30 Dec 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the Left's unappealing agendas: military contracts, messaging, asymmetrically applied law, policy o...

The Traditionalist: The Left's Gifts to the GOP

28 Dec 2021

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Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they reflect on the Manchin decision, Omicron and the truth crisis, Kamala's run-in with Ch...

Modern Israel

25 Dec 2021

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc in a walk through the modern history of Israel on Christmas Day: its origins, military and diplomacy.See Privac...

Three Wayward Generals and Ancient Rome

24 Dec 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc talk about current politicking of US generals and look at precedents in ancient Rome and Greece.See Privacy Policy a...

The Classicist: Civilization’s Petri Dish

23 Dec 2021

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss California: Newsom’s new proposed policies on guns and babies, solutions to the stat...

The Traditionalist: The New Theater of the Absurd

21 Dec 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler talk about the absurdity of the Jussie Smollett case, the grifting leadership still supporting him, the equally ab...

Russia Then and Now

20 Dec 2021

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson discuss 20th-century Russia and the Soviet Union and reflect on events in the Ukraine today with his cohost Sami Winc.Se...

New Old Talking Points for the Dems

18 Dec 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss the reasons for the accusations of a Trump Coup in 2024 by the Left and then talk about Russia's stra...

The Classicist: Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor

16 Dec 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler talk about some myths, moments, and men in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, especially the Japanese General Yamamo...

The Traditionalist: Puzzling Puzzles

14 Dec 2021

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the University of Notre Dame's Woke, De Blasio's policy disasters, China's military sp...

The Classicist: Blue State Blues

09 Dec 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss policy failures in blue states, media bias with no bounds, and blaming racism as an elite conceit.S...

The Traditionalist: What's Wrong With the Cuomos and Other Political Puzzles

07 Dec 2021

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Listen as Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler unravel Fauci's hubris, the Cuomo filial assist, CEOs who praise China, Roe v. Wade in the Supre...

The Agrarian

04 Dec 2021

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson reminisce about life on the farm and the state of modern agriculture with cohost Sami Winc.See Privacy Policy at https:/...

Courts and Cases

03 Dec 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with Sami Winc about Miranda Devine's new book The Laptop from Hell, how court cases are used for political advantage, ...

The Classicist: Now What?

02 Dec 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson with cohost Jack Fowler discusses Putin's Russia and losing deterrence, criminals targeting the stores of the wealthy, 2022 electi...

The Traditionalist: Looking for Straight Talk

30 Nov 2021

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Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they talk over the new COVID strain, Black Friday, China's image and power, Black Tuesday in Greece...

A Pageant to a Soldier's Training

27 Nov 2021

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We are all thankful for our soldiers-at-arms. Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc examine Cortez's defeat of the Aztecs and the 2012 Benghaz...

Kenosha V. Waukesha

26 Nov 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson compares the Darrell Brooks incident in Waukesha and the Kyle Rittenhouse incident in Kenosha, two towns 60 miles apart. His cohos...

The Classicist: Enlightened, Humane, Tolerant--Who Cares?

25 Nov 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Jack Fowler about the Left's projectionist bent, the new racism on the the Left, the penury of academic research...

The Traditionalist: A Reckoning Is Coming

23 Nov 2021

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the Rittenhouse verdict in depth, the Left's overreach, COVID truths, and the politica...

The VDH Show: The Italians on the Weekend Edition

20 Nov 2021

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Listen to Victor Davis Hanson's take on the Italian genius as he discusses Dante Alighieri's Inferno and the Italian military of World War II. VDH and...

The Classicist: What They Won't Talk About

18 Nov 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler analyze what real anti-racism might look like and the ins and outs of the existence of a "Facebook."See Pri...

The Traditionalist: Scandalous

16 Nov 2021

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Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss Adam Schiff's Russian hoax, John Durham's investigation, the Rittenhouse trial, and the econo...

The Culturalist: Without Self-Reflection

12 Nov 2021

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Victor Davis Hanson talks about the current political cycle with Sami Winc: the infrastructure bill, Biden's COVID mandate, the climate change accords...