How Postmodernism Moved From French Philosophy to American Classrooms Victor Davis Hanson traces a direct line from the humiliation of France in World War II to the classroom disruptions he…
Victor Davis Hanson — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Victor Davis Hanson has appeared on 37 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words, Piers Morgan Uncensored, The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Victor said
“I can't believe we ever had you in here. You — I don't approve of what you did, even though they were beneficial.”
— Victor Davis Hanson, describing the Western archetype of Trump
“If people believe there's no deterrence, that's really the only thing that stops people from doing bad things, whether it's social program or shame or law. But if you channel that this is acceptable, then anybody who feels that the burdens of child rearing or they get depressed one day, then there's a message that they can do some dastardly horrific act and not pay the price for it.”
— Victor Davis Hanson
“The only ex-president to have been the target of some 91 local, state, and federal criminal charges. The only ex-president to have his home raided by the FBI. The only ex-president to have been targeted for ballot removal by some twenty-five states. The only ex-president to have been impeached twice. Yet only Trump could have avoided the vast majority of convictions and escaped all jail time.”
— Victor Davis Hanson, from *The Counter-Revolution*
“My point is that they think if they shoot Donald Trump, they're gonna be famous forever. And the sad thing is, I think they may be right...”
— Victor Davis Hanson
Episode appearances
37 Victor Davis Hanson: Ilhan Omar Wants Accountability—Until It Knocks on Her Door Representative Ilhan Omar responded to a Homeland Security Investigations raid on her Washington, D.C. home by…
Marco Rubio stood on the Pnyx, the ancient Athenian hill where the democratic assembly once met, and delivered a defense of Western civilization that was deliberately Periclean in its setting and…
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. linked race to morality for the first time in American public life, declaring segregation not merely a custom or an inconvenience but an evil. That moral fusion,…
In an episode recorded after the first anniversary of October 7, Victor Davis Hanson argues that the Western response to the Israel-Hamas war reveals a deep dysfunction: the world treats the…
Victor Davis Hanson: Why Is Trump Being Blamed for This Cornell Scandal? The Cornell seven scandal—where seven male students were accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old female student during…
In a heated exchange on Piers Morgan Uncensored, historian Victor Davis Hanson and Marxist economist Richard Wolff clashed over the state of the American economy, the nature of U.S. global power,…
Victor Davis Hanson opened the Friday news roundup by calling Donald Trump’s UN General Assembly speech one of the best he had ever seen the former president give. Trump did not play the usual…
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
504: Victor Davis Hanson—The Counter Revolution
September 22, 2026
The Counter Revolution: Victor Davis Hanson on Class, Competence, and the American Middle The first thing Victor Davis Hanson does when Mike Rowe asks him to describe his life is talk about his…
“Every one of those things was drummed up by the left,” Victor Davis Hanson says, running through a list of past panics—the population bomb, nuclear winter, climate change, COVID lockdowns, the Me…
Barack Obama has re-emerged to lead Democratic midterm efforts, and his chosen focus is artificial intelligence. The former president is pushing for global governance of AI, arguing that the…
The Counter-Revolution and Its Aftermath Victor Davis Hanson joined Glenn Beck to discuss his new book The Counter-Revolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement, and to offer…
Victor Davis Hanson: Mark Carney Is Leading Canada ‘Right Over the Cliff’ Canada has a birth rate of 1.25, one of the lowest among Western industrialized nations. Five and a half percent of all…
“I felt a sense of I wasn’t alone. I think it made a difference because some of the prognoses haven’t happened yet. But some of them were not good and they haven’t happened. So I’m feeling the…
Sabin Howard spent 35 years working from live models in his studio, refining a classical sculptural tradition that most art schools no longer teach. Then he spent nine and a half years building…
The Clancy Mistrial, a Copycat Killing, and the State of the Counter-Revolution The defense attorney for Lindsay Clancy—the Massachusetts mother who admitted to strangling her three young…
On his birthday, Victor Davis Hanson reflected on his own mortality. He is in "limbo," waiting for scans and blood biopsies every three months after treatment for lung cancer. The conditions that…
Victor Davis Hanson opened the episode by dismissing recent polling that shows Republicans trailing in key Senate races. He argued that many of these polls are conducted by left-leaning firms that…
In the first days of October 2023, Iran's entire nuclear military-industrial complex was destroyed—fifty years of investment, half a trillion dollars, wiped out in weeks. Yet prominent American…
Victor Davis Hanson’s Friday episode, recorded while he was on vacation, answers listener questions on a range of topics, from the structural proposals of the Democratic Socialists of America to…
Victor Davis Hanson argues that sanctuary cities are not merely a policy disagreement but a fundamental constitutional crisis. He calls them a “neo-Confederate” idea, one that resurrects the…
Victor Davis Hanson argues that the United States is on an "unsustainable spending spree" that poses a greater long-term threat than any single foreign adversary. While the conversation covers the…
In the summer of 1971, Victor Davis Hanson’s father drove him to the University of California, Berkeley, to move into Morrison Dormitory, room 208. When his father put his hand on a dormitory wall…
“We’re taking a gamble with your lives because our virtue-signaling sense of self-guilt is more important than your collective safety.” That’s how Victor Davis Hanson summarizes the decision by 21…
Victor Davis Hanson opens the episode with a sharp image: a goose being squeezed by the neck until it breaks and stops laying eggs. That is his metaphor for what happens when tax rates climb high…
“We don’t really weigh all of the discomfort to the average citizen because we’re so worried that we don’t want to identify a driver who did it,” Victor Davis Hanson says early in this episode,…
Iran negotiations have collapsed repeatedly, military stockpiles are dangerously low, and JD Vance is being reined in after breaking with the administration’s messaging on Israel. Meanwhile, the…
Victor Davis Hanson: Socialism Sounds Better Than It Works In the 2024 primaries, Michigan's Democratic primary became the most expensive House primary in history—roughly $80 million spent—and the…
The WNBA is currently the most visible women's professional sports league in America, and by most measures it is thriving. Caitlin Clark alone has been worth an estimated one billion dollars in…
Victor Davis Hanson opened this episode with an unusual personal update: after a lobectomy and a burst pulmonary artery that required six transfusions, he is still recovering seven months later. A…
In a meeting at Cal State Fresno, a professor screamed at Victor Davis Hanson to “shut the F up.” When he responded by asking if she wanted to slap him instead, she burst into tears and accused…
“I am the most famous and talked about person in the country, one of the most recognizable people in the world.” That is not a line from a satirical novel. It is a diary entry from May 21, 2020,…
In a recent episode of Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words, host Jack Fowler and Victor Davis Hanson dissected a series of cultural and political flashpoints, centering on a controversial map of…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams—who arrived in the United States as a legal immigrant from Uganda—used his Fourth of July speech to accuse America of being “an arena of supremacy” that belongs…
Victor Davis Hanson opens the episode with a blunt observation: the American republic has survived for 250 years not because of its natural resources or geographic isolation, but because of a…
The Carmelo Anthony Case, the Nancy Guthrie Investigation, and the Politics of Race On the Megyn Kelly Show, host Megyn Kelly and historian Victor Davis Hanson dissected the media and political…
“I want to kill the president” is not protected speech. But what about posting a photo of seashells arranged to spell “8647”—a code that, in some circles, means “kill the president”? That is the…
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