VDH's Blade of Perseus // Private Papers
Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender.
Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically “overrepresented” in offering the ultimate sacrifice to their country.
When generals, active and retired, have become controversial, usually conservative America could be counted on to stick with them.
From my leftist point of view, you just look like a dumb, racist old man…babbling on about mixed-race kids, whites this, whites that. You are such a stupid, shitty human. Love, Adam Jacobs Amerikkkan leftist Dear Angry Reader Adam Jacobs,
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the election: last polls, the call for Liz Cheney to face the reality of war, October surprises, political endorsements, insulting the electorate, breaking up the administrative state, Schumer advising anti-Semitic universities, and an analysis of California government inertia on the homeless-housing crisis.
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the long and failed German campaign into Russia. They look at current news: Bezos tarries, Fetterman astonished, one-issue campaigns, and Trump and the Jewish vote.
Tudor Dixon speaks with VDH about the unprecedented nature of the current election cycle, the rhetoric surrounding political violence, the cultural revolution affecting women’s rights, and the backlash against progressive policies.
Come join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for campaign news: Kamala Harris’s unity speech, Biden’s “garbage” comment, a look at the polls, Netanyahu’s year and its legacy, and what to look for on Nov. 5.
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine Harris’s entourage of celebrities, how the Left insults their core constituencies, Devin Nunes and the art of selecting a political team, transexual madness and female athletes, Aurora cover-up and Mexican cartels in the US, DEI corrupting the National Institutes of Health, and Daniel Penny’s trial.
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007, and the Bradley Prize in 2008, as well as the Edmund Burke Award (2018), William F. Buckley Prize (2015), the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award (2006), and the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002).
