The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast

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Author, historian, and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson takes to the National Review airwaves for discussions of national politics, history, and more. He is joined by NR’s vice president Jack Fowler for this weekly podcast.

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The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast episodes:

04.27.2021
Episode 65: The Last Episode: Taking on the Racists of the New Anti-Racism
On this 65th and final episode (with assurances to all that VDH will be offering his wisdom on other podcast venues in the very near future), Victor discusses bureaucrats and their mask permutations, the GOP’s likely impossible search for another...
04.20.2021
Episode 64: Our First Woke President
Victor discusses the Joe Biden who never was, the political uses of the death of Officer Sicknick, Biden’s determination to upset the peace Trump handed him, Maxine Waters’s riot-mongering, the declining role of religion in America, the stale immigration dreams...
04.13.2021
Episode 63: Pigmentation Nation
Victor discusses the rationale behind the elites’ wokeness, the cannibalism of revolutions, how race trumps all, the MSM’s preference for the noble lie, and the value of the American iconoclast. This episode is sponsored by Shraga Kawior.
04.06.2021
Episode 62: MLB Failing MLK
Victor takes on Joe Biden, golden-goose-strangler; the radical new rules imposed on post-America; COVID realities in the face of expert lockdown-love; Delta, Major League Baseball, and other big business virtue-signalers accommodating the Woke Police (while deal-making with Red China’s oppressors);...
03.30.2021
Episode 61: The Masking Marauder
Victor takes on the latest Fauci winging-it, flip-floppery; whether America is committing suicide; the trouble of our military’s progressive “recalibration”; the bizarre morality of anti-racism racism; and reflections on pal Conrad Black’s argument that the Trump-Hate coalition is crumbling.
03.23.2021
Episode 60: In a Feeble Position
Victor discusses America’s new class warfare, the foreign-policy consequences of our feeble POTUS, the Biden administration’s getting out-manipulated by Red China and Russia, how the “party of science” loves superstition and prefers ideology, and a media starting to weakly admit...
03.16.2021
Episode 59: Texas Cage Match
The madness at America’s open southern border, media legendizing, the Left’s “Imaginarium,” Biden's first national address (a truth-free zone), the international consequences of domestic unrest, and gauging the likelihood of a Newsom recall in California -- all that and more...
03.09.2021
Episode 58: Discombobulator in Chief
Victor discusses an incoherent presidency, whether American has gained sufficient antibodies to fight the woke pandemic, lefty journalists who reject “free speech,” and Never Trumpers now championing Never Conservatism.
03.03.2021
Episode 57: I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Conservatives
Victor discusses the neutron bomb effect of COVID, Biden and 2022, lefty Stanford profs and their Hoover Hate, Trump wows CPAC, Cancel Culture bites Dr. Seuss on Mulberry Street while Democratic congressman try to de-cable the Right.
02.23.2021
Episode 56: Disappearing Books
Amazon disappears Ryan Anderson’s important 2018 book, 'When Harry Met Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,' amigo Rush Limbaugh remembered, Joe Biden’s into-war stumbling, and the race card played quickly against Senate foes of a nasty lefty nominee.
02.16.2021
Episode 55: Four Shakedowns and Several Grifts Ago . . .
Victor takes on the Lincoln Project’s muddied moralists, Andrew Cuomo’s gubernatorial lethality, Big Tech’s Trump-hate, the reemerged Parler and its fight to survive, the lies about Officer Brian Sicknick’s death, and their role in the Trump impeachment follies.
02.09.2021
Episode 54: Animal Farm 2021
On this episode, Victor discusses his friend Thomas Sowell; the campaign to recall California governor Gavin Newson; the second Trump impeachment and its long-term consequences; and his essay on the Left’s agenda to help friends, punish enemies, and keep and...
02.02.2021
Episode 53: The Russia Card
Victor discusses the new issue of Strategika and its theme of U.S.-Russian relations, progressive illiberalism, and the first days of the Biden administration.
01.26.2021
Episode 52: Time to Forget
Victor discusses the Left’s call for reprogramming, attacks on the the 1776 Commission report, the Biden administration’s executive order kyboshing girls’ sports, and recall-targeted governor Gavin Newsom’s newfound desire to loosen lockdowns.
01.20.2021
Episode 51: Achilles’s Tendencies
Victor discusses President Biden’s first day, President Trump’s final ones, the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission’s just-released important report, calls to ban Fox and Newsmax from cable systems, stabbing Hector’s corpse, GOP wishful thinking, and much more.
01.12.2021
Episode 50: No Umbrage Zone: The Left, Left Out
Victor discusses the fallout from the riots at the U.S. Capitol, the impact on the legacy of Donald Trump, the media’s relentless double standards, Joe Biden’s “healing” rhetoric, and the recall effort against California governor Gavin Newsom.
01.06.2021
Episode 49: Georgia, No Peace I Find
Victor discusses the ramifications of the Georgia Senate special elections, just how horribilis was the annus 2020, the sneaky ways used by college administrators to suppress politically incorrect professors, the achievements of Devin Nunes, and wrestling far above your weight...
12.29.2020
Episode 48: Speak with Woked Tongue
Victor ends 2020 discussing the vocabulary of Wokespeak, America’s “Animal Farm” media and its post-election flipping of political good and bad, President Trump’s proclamation on the 850th anniversary of Saint Thomas Beckett’s martyrdom, Red China's global social-media propaganda campaign to...
12.22.2020
Episode 47: ‘Nemesis Is Holding on Line One’
Today Victor looks at Joe Biden, alleged Healer of the Nation, and also the man (and his enabling media) whose hubris have dates with comeuppance, plus Red China’s on-all-fronts efforts to weaken America, John Kerry’s looming Climate Czarship, the MSM’s...
12.15.2020
Episode 46: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Left World
On today’s episode Victor discusses the root causes of the new mad Left, the “Hydroxy Effect” facing Joe Biden, the Hoover Institution’s Strategika journal and its new discussion on the pandemic’s impact on Red China, and the immigration/amnesty threat that...
12.08.2020
Episode 45: Hate Speech towards Free Speech
Victor discusses Joe Biden's brave new world; the disdain of free speech by America's journalists; fed-up small-business owners in California; the late Walter Williams; and on this, the 79th anniversary of America’s declaration of war against Japan, his thoughts on...
12.01.2020
Episode 44: The Critical Essence of the Country Mouse
Victor analyzes Donald Trump’s political future, the rural/urban divide and the Republic’s dependence on the self-reliant, the likelihood of a Biden administration building on Trump’s strategic foreign-policy gains, Scott Atlas and the COVID jihadists, and an upcoming VDH tour of...
11.24.2020
Episode 43: The Man of Steele
On today’s episode, Victor and special guest Shelby Steele discuss his important new documentary film, 'What Killed Michael Brown?' and the central role of white guilt in American liberalism.
11.18.2020
Episode 42: Georgia, Georgia, No Peace I Find
On today’s episode, Victor discusses what’s at stake for America in the forthcoming special U.S. Senate elections in Georgia, Donald Trump meets The Searchers, powerful claims about massive security deficiencies in America’s election and ballot-counting systems, Senator Josh Hawley leveling...
11.11.2020
Episode 41: The Don’t-Fight Club
On this episode, Victor discusses 2020 as the Year of Disinformation; how Election Day has become an abstraction (and how that threatens the Republic); the history of contested national elections; Andrew Cuomo, vaccine truther; Pfizer’s partisan game-playing; America’s third-world vote-counting;...
11.03.2020
Episode 40: The 1984 Election
On today’s episode, Victor discusses his new essay, “Vote No on 1984”; President Trump’s executive order establishing a 1776 Commission; what happens when college professors and officials claim they’re racists; plans to turn San Francisco into a homeless camp; and...
10.28.2020
Episode 39: The Biden-Integrity Laffer
On today’s episode, Victor discusses the consequences of the final presidential debate, his new National Review essay comparing Trump and Biden, Anthony Bobulinski exposing the business practices of The Big Guy and his family, Trump and the polls, the black...
10.20.2020
Episode 38: The Tortoise Is Gaining on the Hare
On this episode, Victor discusses the ongoing Biden scandals, the media’s Biden protection racket, the tightening polls, Amazon’s Steele shut-down, the destruction of inherited institutions, the forthcoming presidential debate, advice to Candidate Trump, Rush Limbaugh’s discussion of his health, and...
10.14.2020
Episode 37: Muscular Politics, the Burisma Scandal, and the Scandal’s Scandal
On today’s episode, Victor discusses the emerging Joe/Hunter Biden “Burisma” scandal, his latest NR column, "The Fragments of a Civilization," California’s push to consider slavery reparations, the woke, disastrous, and just-completed NBA season, Kamala Harris’s Veep debate and SCOTUS hearings...
10.06.2020
Episode 36: Generals Foreign and Ancient
Making good on a promise to devote an episode to generals foreign and ancient, America’s premier military historian discusses the merits of Caesar, Hannibal, Napoleon, Suleiman, Themistocles, Bolivar, Epaminondas, and many more who may or may not deserve their reputations...
09.30.2020
Episode 35: Mourning After?
On today’s episode, Victor gives his take on the first Trump–Biden debate, Chris Wallace’s moderating tilt, vaccine scare tactics, Amy Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, new charges that Hillary Clinton orchestrated the Russia collusion hoax, the 490 B.C. Project,...
09.22.2020
Episode 34: General McMaster on Defending the Free World
On today’s broadcast, special guest Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster (ret.) joins Victor to discuss his new book, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. VDH also explains his new NRO essay on the dangers of conventional wisdom. This...
09.17.2020
Episode 33: Only You Can Prevent Preventing Forest Fires
On today’s episode, Victor discusses California aflame (and the close call of his home), the “un-news” media, President Trump’s Middle East foreign-policy wins, the presidential horserace 47 days out, the big-money Left planning and bankrolling post-election violence, and tensions between...
09.08.2020
Episode 32: Is Trump Creating a Middle-Class Coalition of All Races?
On today’s episode, Victor discusses Joe Biden’s paradoxes, Donald Trump’s appeal to minority voters, America’s hamstrung police, the wild and much-repeated claims by The Atlantic that Donald Trump insulted America’s war dead, California’s continuing descent, and the mistake that was...
09.01.2020
Episode 31: Biden, in Sorta Trouble
On today’s episode, Victor discusses silence about violence, Joe Biden’s trip to Pittsburgh, Donald Trump’s trip to Wisconsin, Portland madness, British SJWs shocked by Rule Britannia, and internal tensions among Red China’s leaders This episode is produced by Sarah Schutte...
08.28.2020
Episode 30: Conventional Wisdom
On today’s episode, Professor Hanson grades the recent Republican Convention and President Trump’s acceptance speech; explains the motivations of thugs amok-running in American streets; the emerging political effects of the violence and Joe Biden’s response to it; profiles California’s emerging...
08.18.2020
Episode 29: Democrats and Their Mobocracy Dreams
On this new episode, Victor discusses the massive issues and events and election influences of 2020, the Democratic assault on the Constitution and American political traditions, the calls for wealth taxes in a browned-out California, Joe Biden’s narrowing lead in...
08.12.2020
Episode 28: Cultural IEDs Blowing Up
On this new episode, Victor discusses Kamala Harris winning the Democrat veepstakes, reparations, the thin veneer of civilization, the end of civil rights as we knew it, the A-bomb at 75, and the COVID nursing-home apocalypse. This episode is produced...
07.28.2020
Episode 27: Great (and Not So Great) American Generals
People have to take vacations, even eminent military historians. So in this episode, recorded in late July as we anticipated a lapse, Victor discussed some of America’s premier generals, and what made them great -- or, not so great. Among...
07.21.2020
Episode 26: Dunking on the NBA
On today’s episode, Victor discusses the reasons and consequences of keeping America’s classrooms locked, free speech on campus, the NFL and NBA prioritizing woke, Donald Trump’s interview with Chris Wallace, and what 2021 might look like in Joe Biden’s America.
07.14.2020
Episode 25: The Histrionic / Schizophrenic / Passive-Aggressive / Braggadocio / Weeping Woke, Explained
On today’s episode, Victor discusses his syndicated column on the schizophrenic woke rioters, his new NR essay on Jacobin Leftists getting edgy, the boomerang heading towards NBA and NFL virtue-mongerers, Bastille Day-generated reflections on the French Revolution’s enduring influence, Gavin...
07.07.2020
Episode 24: Americas: Three. Realities: Two. Contextualization Standard: One. Year: Zero.
On this episode, Victor discusses how Joe Biden has fared having emerged from his basement, President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech and his executive orders on monuments, universities hell-bent for obsolescence, and the Cultural Revolution’s Year Zero.
06.30.2020
Episode 23: Basement Politics
On today’s program, Victor discusses the cognitive challenges of Joe Biden; the former Veep’s basement strategy -- and how Trump needs to get Biden up through the bilco doors; how November will be about the Angry Voter; Blue State leaders...
06.23.2020
Episode 22: Limitations of Statues
On this week’s episode, Victor discusses statue-toppling; the self-cannibalizing appetite of cultural revolutions; Juneteenth; President Trump’s new immigration order; chaos; John Bolton’s book; favorable winds that Donald Trump needs to harness to prevail in November; an attack of his criticism...
06.15.2020
Episode 21: Winding the Coup Coup Clock
On today’s episode, Victor discusses his forthcoming NR piece on the emerging, partisan Military-Intelligence Complex; statue-toppling and base-renaming; the ironies and paradoxes of revolutions; Senator Graham’s planned Judiciary hearings on Flynn and collusion; BLM being a Marxist front; media madness;...
06.09.2020
Episode 20: General Elect Tricks
On this week’s episode, Victor discusses the media coming out unabashedly Left, the nexus of riots and coronavirus, the generals versus Trump, China -- No More Mr. Nice Commie, and much more.
06.02.2020
Episode 19: Riots, Basement Joe, Failing Andy, Twittering Trump
On this week’s edition, Victor shares his thoughts on Donald Trump’s announcement of military force to counter riots, the president’s lack of focus, the paradox that is Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo’s latest failures, Tucker Carlson’s clobbering of conservative lecturers, America’s...
05.26.2020
Episode 18: The Remains of an Administration
On this week’s episode, Victor discusses the emptiness and diminished legacy of the Obama administration -- and gilded-Socialism cashed in post-presidency; the ACLU’s foray into fighting due process on campus; Stanford colleague Michael Levitt’s told-you-so warnings about pandemic predictions and...
05.22.2020
Special Episode: Warfare [17]
Today on The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast, Rich Lowry takes over hosting duties to interview Victor on this special Memorial Day weekend episode.
05.19.2020
Episode 16: Credentialed Criminality
On this week’s episode, as Memorial Day approaches, Victor discusses how the “best and brightest” have destroyed evidence, altered documents, lied, leaked, and pled amnesia; the inspirational lessons an America emerging from a pandemic lockdown might take from World War...

What's The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast episodes:

Episode 65: The Last Episode: Taking on the Racists of the New Anti-Racism

Episode 64: Our First Woke President

Episode 63: Pigmentation Nation

Episode 62: MLB Failing MLK

Episode 61: The Masking Marauder

Episode 60: In a Feeble Position

Episode 59: Texas Cage Match

Episode 58: Discombobulator in Chief

Episode 57: I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Conservatives

Episode 56: Disappearing Books

Episode 55: Four Shakedowns and Several Grifts Ago . . .

Episode 54: Animal Farm 2021

Episode 53: The Russia Card

Episode 52: Time to Forget

Episode 51: Achilles’s Tendencies

Episode 50: No Umbrage Zone: The Left, Left Out

Episode 49: Georgia, No Peace I Find

Episode 48: Speak with Woked Tongue

Episode 47: ‘Nemesis Is Holding on Line One’

Episode 46: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Left World

Episode 45: Hate Speech towards Free Speech

Episode 44: The Critical Essence of the Country Mouse

Episode 43: The Man of Steele

Episode 42: Georgia, Georgia, No Peace I Find

Episode 41: The Don’t-Fight Club

Episode 40: The 1984 Election

Episode 39: The Biden-Integrity Laffer

Episode 38: The Tortoise Is Gaining on the Hare

Episode 37: Muscular Politics, the Burisma Scandal, and the Scandal’s Scandal

Episode 36: Generals Foreign and Ancient

Episode 35: Mourning After?

Episode 34: General McMaster on Defending the Free World

Episode 33: Only You Can Prevent Preventing Forest Fires

Episode 32: Is Trump Creating a Middle-Class Coalition of All Races?

Episode 31: Biden, in Sorta Trouble

Episode 30: Conventional Wisdom

Episode 29: Democrats and Their Mobocracy Dreams

Episode 28: Cultural IEDs Blowing Up

Episode 27: Great (and Not So Great) American Generals

Episode 26: Dunking on the NBA

Episode 25: The Histrionic / Schizophrenic / Passive-Aggressive / Braggadocio / Weeping Woke, Explained

Episode 24: Americas: Three. Realities: Two. Contextualization Standard: One. Year: Zero.

Episode 23: Basement Politics

Episode 22: Limitations of Statues

Episode 21: Winding the Coup Coup Clock

Episode 20: General Elect Tricks

Episode 19: Riots, Basement Joe, Failing Andy, Twittering Trump

Episode 18: The Remains of an Administration

Special Episode: Warfare [17]

Episode 16: Credentialed Criminality