Tag: Victor Davis Hanson

[PREMIERING 7:30PM ET] Victor Davis Hanson on Russia-Ukraine: Cutting Through the Information War | PART 1

Part 1 of this two-part episode will premiere Sat. March 26, at 7:30 p.m. ET.     To make sense of what’s really going on in the Russia-Ukraine war, we sit down with classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson. What are Vladimir Putin’s goals? Why are the left and corporate media so unified when it…


Tribalism and Globalism: Destroying the Idea of America

Are globalism, the ambitions of the rich and the powerful, and loyalty to a group or an ideology rather than to a country undermining the foundations of America? Is citizenship becoming meaningless? And is the middle class in particular bearing the brunt of these assaults on the traditions and ideals of the American Dream? American…


Victor Davis Hanson: The ‘Era of Intimidation,’ Tribalism, and Elite Contempt for the Middle Class

“A very dangerous pre-civilizational pathology is tribalism…I hire my first cousin—and not the other person who’s better qualified—because he’s part of the tribe,” says classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson. Now, “we’ve gone back in a retrograde fashion to a pre-civilizational mentality,” Hanson says. In this episode, we discuss his latest book, “The Dying Citizen:…


In ‘The Dying Citizen’ Victor Davis Hanson Diagnoses America’s Existential Crisis

Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book, “The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are Destroying the Idea of America,” is a prescient account of how the American conceptualization of citizenship has been eroded by progressive ideologues and those who wish to undermine the original intent of the Framers. He focuses on the categories of…


Epoch TV Review: Biden’s Big Debacle

Commentary  There’s so much to unpack in “Failure in Afghanistan” that it’s difficult to know where to begin discussing this episode of “Counterculture.” While Danielle D’Souza Gill, along with guest Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institute, focus largely on Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, they also touch on a number of other Democratic positions…


Failure in Afghanistan

In this episode of Counterculture with Danielle D’Souza Gill, Danielle dives deeper into America’s failure in Afghanistan. What was problematic about the way the US pulled out, and what should we have done instead? Danielle interviews political scientist Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institute about the long-term implications of all of this, and how…


Exclusive: Victor Davis Hanson on the Assault on Meritocracy, Politicization of the Virus, and the ‘Platonic Noble Lie’

There will be “no safe space, no sanctuary from wokeism until the system starts to erode the safety and the security of the elite that created it,” says classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson. In this episode, Hanson breaks down the problems he sees plaguing American society today, from the assault on meritocracy to the…


Video: Woke Movement Functions Like a Religion, Says Victor Davis Hanson

Behind the waves of protests, critical theory narratives, and attacks on traditional culture is the woke movement. This movement functions as a religion for those who follow it. To learn more about this, we sat down for an interview with classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute. These stories and…


Exclusive: Victor Davis Hanson on Impeachment and the ‘Cancer’ of Woke Ideology

Tonight, we sit down with classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson to discuss the rise of critical social justice and woke ideology, growing limits on freedom of speech, and his take on the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. “It’s like a public-shaming like the Communist Party used to make people wear dunce…