398: Victor Davis Hanson—So Goes Glory

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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VDH is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, a professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, a nationally syndicated columnist, a bestselling author, AND a fifth-generation California farmer. In his July 29, 2024 article, America's Lab Rats? (read here: https://victorhanson.com/americas-lab-rats/ ), Victor argues that American society appears to be treating many of its citizens like insignificant lab rats in some kind of social experiment, leading to unintended and harmful consequences. His website. His book.

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0:00.0	It's the way I heard it on Mike Roe. This episode is called So Goes Glory. And what a treat
0:10.4	I have for you. I don't know. Chuck, is he going to mind being referred to as a treat,
0:15.9	you think? No, I think he'll take it in the way in which you meant it.
0:24.3	Victor Davis Hansen is my guest.
0:29.2	I'm not going to throw the hero word around too indiscriminately, but he's been somewhat heroic to me over the years because he's an intellectual who also happens to be a fifth
0:35.1	generation farmer.
0:40.2	In fact, he's still teaching, isn't he, at a couple places?
0:48.0	Yeah, he's a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and an author of a ton of books and articles.
0:52.0	I think he also still teaches at Pepperdine as well.
0:52.5	Yeah.
0:53.8	He's in demand.
0:57.2	You've probably seen him all over TV. The country,
1:03.0	in my estimation, is desperate for his point of view. And modesty aside, I think they're desperate for it for the same reason that Dirty Jobs was a hit. There's a group of people in this country
1:08.3	who are slowly coming to the conclusion, that they have not just
1:12.9	been underappreciated or ignored or misused, but now in some sort of experiment. And this is the
1:24.7	upshot of the article that was sent to me yesterday that I read that I'm going to recommend you all go read now or sometime very soon.
1:36.5	I was out for my morning hike with 50 pounds of penance on my shoulders when I got this thing and I couldn't read it.
1:43.3	So I sent it to Chuck
1:44.4	who was kind enough to read it to me over the phone. Yep. Victor knows a lot of big words,
1:50.4	doesn't he, buddy? Oh, yeah, yeah. There's a 50-cent word every other sentence and he puts them
1:55.4	together very well. I mean, this article, I've linked it in the show notes so you can go click on it
2:00.6	and you can read it.
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