Victor Davis Hanson's The Classicist
Summary: The Classicist is the weekly podcast of Victor Davis Hanson, scholar, writer, farmer. Tune in each week to hear VDH's unique perspective on the issues of the day.
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Podcasts:
If Donald Trump wants to win reelection, he’ll champion these issues.
Victor Davis Hanson proposes a policy agenda — and a strategic posture — for the Trump campaign to take up in the presidential election.
The mobs don’t have numbers on their side — but they do have quivering elites.
What will bring the wave of radical protests and cancel culture to an end? It would help if the leadership of America’s elite institutions grew a backbone.
The disconnect between urban and rural America is starting to work in the latter’s favor.
Victor Davis Hanson explores the historical, political, and economic aspects of the rural-urban divide — and its implications for American culture.
From toppled statues to renamed military bases, a look at the iconoclastic impulses sweeping the country.
Victor Davis Hanson puts the efforts to uproot confederate iconography into historical perspective, examines the revolutionary zeal currently in fashion amongst progressive activists, and compares & contrasts this moment of American instability with otGeorge Floydhers in the nation’s past.
The protest movement has unleashed an ideological zeal the Left can no longer control.
Victor Davis Hanson looks at how the protest movement inspired by the death of George Floyd has morphed from a legitimate lament of tragedy into a dangerous, revolutionary crusade.
On political polarization, the debt reckoning, and Chinese aggression.
Victor Davis Hanson takes listeners on a tour of the chaos emerging in the wake of COVID-19: increased political polarization, a tidal wave of debt, and an emboldened China.
What happened to America’s elites? During the COVID-19 pandemic they have unleashed a torrent of authoritative pronouncements about the crisis that have too often proven to be incomplete or totally inaccurate. Victor Davis Hanson argues that the increasing specialization of intellectuals — along with a declining sense of humility — is making the expert class […]
We may owe experts respect, but we don’t owe them deference.
The challenges facing America — both at home and abroad — as we attempt to bounce back from the coronavirus.