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.
Details of the recent limited Israeli retaliatory strike against Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions. Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in
In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler analyze LA exodus to Bakersfield, US government forewarning of the Iran attack, Israel’s response, USC cancels commencement speeches, and Bill Maher though disinterested is still unprofessional.
In a candid interview with New York Post columnist and longtime News Corp journalist Miranda Devine, VDH discusses with her the four weaponized trials facing Donald Trump, the growing epidemic of anti-Semitism on campuses, the reasons behind the Biden administration destruction of the southern border, the cycles of Biden cognitive decline, and more…
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Ukraine aid vs. border security, the lack of consequences for the Chinese-Biden payments, Columbia University crazies, eyes wide-open in black communities, and Zelensky taking US aid as spoils of war.
Join the weekend edition with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for a look at Roman philosophers, the Ukraine War, the Senate declining to impeach Mayorkas, and NPR’s radicalism.
Join the news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc to listen to the latest about the attack on Israel, the Trump trials and Biden’s billions.
Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler look at California’s homeless and natural beauty, O.J. passes away and the logic of exempting blacks from laws, colleges in a doom loop, the open border is a win-win for Dems, and the unknown knowns of NPR’s leftism.
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).
