Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor is the Martin and

Ilyanderson senior fellow and military history and classics at the Hoover

institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at

Hillsdale College. He has a website victorhanson.com it's called the

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$50 a year. Today we have a lot on our agenda. Biden's just finished his state of

the Union address and we'll be talking about that. We have a new article first

though on Nord Stream 2 and the blowing up of the pipeline into Europe. So we'll

talk about that first. Hang in there and come right back after these messages.

Welcome back Victor. We got a lot going on. I hope that things are going well for

you and your various your various. Yes, I'm very as what.

I've been stepping it up as this long COVID is fading. It's almost gone. It's

kind of a miracle. I'm suffering. COVID euphoria doctor said that that's he

not he was treating me just a guy I know and he just said look forward to

COVID euphoria when you feel like you're liberated. I'm feeling that way. I've

heard an article in the state of the Union today. It comes out tomorrow. I talked

about that on Laura. I'm writing a long piece on the triangle between

Stanford University Silicon Valley and Bay Area left wing politics and how

they mutually are integrated. They're integrated and intertwined and how

powerful they are and that ideology that emanates from them. I'm reviewing. I'm

right in a view of Mark Morier's book Triumph Regain. It's a really good book about

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