Grades, Military Technology, and the Left’s Ick and Shtick

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to examine the usefulness of college grades, the cost-benefit analysis of military weapons, origins of Houthi rebels, Obama’s presidential library, Walz the worst VP-pick in history, JD Vance on school shootings, and Newsom’s veto on housing loans for illegals. Share This

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Movies, Novels, and the Death of Classics: Listeners’ Questions

Listen in to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler talk about Shane, The Searchers, Lonesome Dove, The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan, The Bridge on the River Kwai and more movies, Robert Graves’s I Claudius, Mary Renault’s series on Alexander the Great and other novels, and Classics in education. Share This

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No One Worries about the Tlaxcalans and Other Ironies

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine whether China will invade Taiwan, reparatory admissions degenerate the culture and standards of the university, Tlaxcalans marginalized by the Aztecs, Google-AI as good as its programmers, and rebuilding a barn. Share This

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War, Scores and the Last Tragedian

In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson talks with cohost Sami Winc about the Ukraine War two years later, Trump settlement and the NY business community, S.A.T. scores return to university admissions, new non-science in CDC and Health Department decisions, and the last tragedian Euripides. Share This

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Envisioning a Better Nation: Musk and Mega-Donors

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss Elon Musk’s compensation denied and ideas of a new university, reforming entrenched DEI, financing illegals and fiscal responsibility, mega-donors begin to see the downside to elite universities, and Trump’s case postponed. Share This

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The GOP Nominee Race Takes Shape After New Hampshire and Other News

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc to discuss the news of the week: campaign trail notes and questions, Supreme Court ruling allows federal agents subvert border defenses, our universities plagued by anti-Semitism and greedy professors, and are we at war with Iran? Share This

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Left Ideology and Post-Civilizational World

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler explain the reasons elites approve of Biden’s record, Davos elites’ selective criminalization, university reputations in the balance, Rice University offering “Afro-chemistry”, and “insurrection,” Oct. 7, and Left ideology. Share This

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Immigration, Weaponization, and Censorship

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine the old left’s idea of immigration, Simpson-Mazzoli Act, sentencing Jan. 6 participants, weaponizing the administration, the censorship industrial complex, and de-leftification of universities. Share This

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Conservatism, Education, and Small Towns

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the many conservative movements in the US, American athletes protesting the US, Stanford University‘s recent resignations, education does not need to decline, Hoover Institution’s direction, and Jason Aldean‘s song and perseverance. Share This

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Beyond Race and Social Movements

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine historically black colleges, the trans movement and the reaction to the new movie Sound of Freedom. Share This

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