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The Victor Davis Hanson Show

Hallmarks of Civilizational Decay, Old and New

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler

Politcs, Culture, Society & Culture, History, Politics, News

4.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode VDH and Jack cover Trump's immigration policies and missing migrant children, Claudine Gay attacking her successor at Harvard, and the alarming parallels between modern America and ancient Rome.

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0:00.0

You may know frontotemporal degeneration or FTT as the disease that recently forced Bruce Willis to retire from acting.

0:08.5

While it's the most common form of dementia for adults under age 60, many people, even doctors, aren't familiar with it.

0:17.5

Uncharacteristic personality changes, apathy, and unexplained struggles with decision-making,

0:23.7

movement, speaking, or language comprehension are the most common symptoms. It is often misdiagnosed

0:30.2

as bipolar disorder, depression, and sometimes just a midlife crisis. It's World FTT Awareness Week.

0:37.8

You can learn more about this disease

0:39.5

and the important steps you can take

0:41.5

to preserve and maximize quality of life

0:44.1

by visiting the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

0:48.1

at theaftD.org.

0:52.9

Find help. Share hope. Go now to theaftd.org.

1:17.5

Hello ladies, hello gentlemen, welcome to the Victor Davis-Hansson show.

1:21.7

Victor is the Martin and Ely Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,

1:24.8

the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. He is a military historian, classicist, rancher, farmer.

1:30.6

Sometimes I've got to figure out what's the difference between a rancher and a farmer.

1:33.7

Ranchers are more likely associated with livestock.

1:38.7

Yeah.

1:39.3

Do you call your place a ranch, though?

1:41.6

You know, it's funny.

1:42.4

Everybody, when I was growing up, said, can we come out to the ranch?

1:46.4

So, yeah, they used that, but it was actually, we never.

1:50.0

We had a lot of farm animals.

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