Hello, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hanson show, The Classicist.

I'm Jack Fowler, the host, the director of the Center for Civil Society at American

Philanthropic and the author of it's new, weekly email newsletter, civil thoughts you

can subscribe to it at civilthoughts.com.

But who cares about the host because we're here to listen to the wisdom of the namesake

of the show, Victor Davis Hanson, who is the Martin and Eli Anderson senior fellow at the

Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale.

College Victor is a farmer and military historian, a classicist.

He's many things you'll find just about everything he does at victorhanson.com.

That's HansonSON.com more on that in a little bit.

Today on the classicist, we are recording on Friday, September 17th.

We will be talking about Victor's writings in American greatness.

And while we had elections in California this past week, so Victor's take on the recall.

And also a little bit about shame, a little bit about power.

But let's listen to this important message first.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show on Jack Fowler Victor.

You've written, as you do every week, for American greatness, you write a longer essay

and then a shorter piece.

But let's take on the big essay you've written.

It's titled, Woke, the Evil of Our Age.

And here's something you wrote in that piece.

You wrote, we should be worried about our own woke pandemic.

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