Ancient Tragedians and Modern Agonistes

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Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler

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🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Join the weekend episode with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc for analysis of Biden's speech on Alexei Navalny death, Fani Willis's trial, the Shellenberger-Taibbi-Gutentag investigation, a third party in our democracy, and the ancient Greek tragedians, Sophocles and Aeschylus.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone this is the Victor Davis Hanson show and the weekend edition we will look at a few news stories and there's been lots of news stories thanks to us living in a democracy it tends to be a good week usually for news.
0:15.0	And then we will be looking at Trajedians, ancient Greek Trajedians today, Sophocles and Escales. So stay with us and we'll be right back.
0:25.0	Welcome back to the Victor Davis-Hanson show. You can find Victor at his website
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0:56.8	website and Victor's work.
0:59.1	So Victor, we've got lots on the agenda today.
1:01.3	I was thinking that first we would start off with the
1:04.4	recent Biden speech. He came out because Alexi Navalny has been, I want to say he's been killed probably because he was only 47 years old and probably something to do
1:18.9	with Putin but a strange thing in that speech he also blamed Trump for Russia because he said
1:27.2	Trump's recent idea on NATO is that if Europeans don't pay up unleashing Russia is just retribution for whatever.
1:38.8	So all of his supporters of course know that he's exaggerating to make a point but what were your thoughts
1:45.9	on Biden's speech? Well I'd just like to say that Navalny was a very
1:51.0	courageous guy I mean he was he had run for mayor when he was
1:56.0	totally couldn't. He was a dissident. I don't remember there was that story just
2:02.1	three years ago he was on a flight and all of a
2:04.8	sudden he just collapsed and they had given him tea and poisoned him and so my
2:11.4	point is that he knew they were going to kill him and he didn't cease.
2:16.0	He still kept as much as you can in Moscow or in Russia in general opposed Putin. Then they locked him up. I think they sentenced him for 19 years.
2:27.0	And then when people were distracted elsewhere, they killed him.
2:31.0	And I mean, they killed him. They obviously did. So Biden came out and gave a speech, which is fine.
2:37.8	I mean that's what the American presidents do to show solidarity. He had a little glitch
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