Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, political commentator, and farmer. He says cultural Marxism inside our major institutions and American weakness abroad have led to chaos around the world. Victor joins PragerU CEO Marissa Streit to provide clarity about the wars in Ukraine and Israel and give insight into the collapse of America’s borders and universities
Perhaps as war clouds gather and enemies multiply, Europe will rediscover its heritage and reawaken to its historical role. Can Europe Become Western Again? – Victor Davis Hanson (article on his site)
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- Bill speaks to Victor Davis Hanson about the impact on society from the woke. – No Spin News
- Victor Davis Hanson on the Israel-Hamas War: “There has always been anti-Semitism, but this time around, it’s on the Left, and the institutions are not the watchdogs; they’re promoting it.” Victor Davis Hanson – Epoch Times
- Can We Know Them by What They Say and Do—Here and Abroad? As a general rule, in a free society, when there are two sides demonstrating, the merit of their respective causes can be assessed by the relative methods of protests that they each employ—as can be adjudicated by the following 10 criteria: 1) Does one side attack the other, or try to tear down or destroy their opponents’ posters, flags, etc.? 2) Does one side illegally occupy buildings, swarm roads, or block bridges? 3) Does one side incite violence against or directly attack the police? 4) Does one side deface public and private property and vandalize? 5) Does one side more often wear masks to hide their identities? 6) Does one side use obscenity and profanity and call for violence in their chants and sloganeering? 7) Does one side ally with or support terrorists officially labeled as such by the US government? 8) Does one side have a greater likelihood to have protestors arrested? 9) Does one side more likely attack or oppose their own country of residence or burn the American flag? 10) Does one side pose a greater danger to bystanders or third-party observers? Again, the methods of protests here often mirror-image the respective military protocols of the war abroad that spark the protests. That is, the relative conduct of a protestor in the US usually reflects the values of the combatants which he supports. So, consider the following 10 criteria abroad that may explain the character of the protests here: 1) Which side starts a war at a time of peace? 2) Which side launches the attack at a time of holiday in surprise fashion? 3) Which side deliberately seeks as its targets unarmed and the most vulnerable civilians? 4) Which side employs acts of terror such as mutilation, decapitation, torture, and rape? 5) Which side uses human shields to sacrifice civilians to protect combatants? 6) Which side takes hostages and threatens to kill captives for military advantage? 7) Which side does or does not drop leaflets or otherwise warn those in the target area of an impending rocket or bombing attack? 8) Which side occasionally shoots its own civilians if they do not agree to be human shields or seek to leave the combat zone? 9) Which side shields their own command and control centers under or inside hospitals, schools, and religious centers? 10) Which side is more likely to kill or capture US citizens? – Victor Davis Hanson
- TikTok influencers and the arrogant, ignorant generation, Hamas’ feeble warrior culture, the ingratitude of student guests in the US, Left commentary about Trump’s “revenge” as only a projection, what is needed for Republican unity, and blaming Bibi Netanyahu for the Hamas attack. – Victor Davis Hanson
- Trump Revenge? As Joe Biden’s polls plunge, his public bewilderment becomes chronic, and his exposed corruption can no longer be defended, pundits are writing furiously about the specter of “Trump revenge”. What is that, and why is it coming up now? The Republican primary polls alarm them, but the general election polls favoring Trump over Biden utterly terrify them. They privately concede that the crude-sounding Trump nevertheless did not weaponize the FBI, CIA, or DOJ. The Trump-hating Pentagon, retired generals, CIA and FBI directors, the Washington FBI hierarchy—all of them knew that the fiery and bombastic Trump nevertheless did not hound out his enemies and turn these agencies and institutions into West Wing political operatives, in the way that Biden has destroyed the reputations of the DOJ and FBI. So why the new mantra of “Trump revenge”? Most likely, the Left is afraid because they know that if they were Trump and had suffered such weaponized lawfare from their opponents and in-house apostates, and yet had finally regained power, then they would most certainly go after their enemies with mass firings, weaponized indictments, and fake news stories. In other words, they are scared that Trump thinks and acts like they do, and thus would do what they most certainly would do if in his place. But for all of Trump’s loud banter, invective, and over-the-top tweets, he never sicced the bureaucracies on his political and personal enemies, and in that regard was never quite like the Left. – Victor Davis Hanson
- This was an awesome opinion piece by the great Victor Davis Hanson. He lays bare the rot in our Universities. Worth the read! – Robert Spudis
- Episode 37: “War & Sowell” with Victor Davis Hanson is now live on all podcast platforms as well as here on X: 0:00-59:00: Me discussing Sowell’s views on the 6 causes of WW2. 59:01-1:53: My conversation with@VDHanson Sowell + VDH + Great Music. – Victor Davis Hanson (Audio)
- Victor Davis Hanson: Can We Save Our Universities? – ZeroHedge
