Hello everyone, this is the Victor Davis Hansen show.

Victor is the Martin and Ely Anderson Senior Philomilitary

History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the

Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Philom history at

Hillsdale College. He is an author of approximately 27 or

maybe 28 books depending upon how you count that.

And he is a political commentator, a scholar, and

an SES. And this episode we're going to look into

culture. So we do politics and culture, but we're

going to talk about a lot of cultural issues at the

end of the year and some of his favorite movies and

actors and novels and we'll get and more and we'll

get to that right after these messages. Welcome back, Victor.

So this should be for me a lot more interesting because I

want to hear about your favorites on all sorts of issues

and not issues, but on all sorts of cultural phenomenon.

And I was hoping we could start with actors because you

have talked before about actors that you admire, but I was

hoping we could keep it to three and we might go through

several cultural topics and look at those either works or

actors that you feel are actors. Sorry, either works or

are people that you feel excel in those areas. And so

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