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Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

The Great Book of the 20th Century: “The Gulag Archipelago” | Daniel J Mahoney

Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

Jennifer Hayne

News Commentary, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

All of Thomas Sowell’s “considerable learning” is front and center in his 2007 book A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. Sowell, a Marxist-turned, unofficial 20th-century spokesman for capitalism, theorizes that humans are inclined to adopt one of two worldviews — the “constrained” or the “unconstrained” vision — explains Daniel J. Mahoney, a professor emeritus at Assumption University and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, on today’s edition of Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words. 👉America is worth preserving. Do your part and act now by going to https://www.heritage.org/beautiful  👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest editions of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1   👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iOoN0xoOoSNvDFlpLLYGY?si=5a9f369acc874c6e 👉 Apple Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words/id1566731706 👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/VictorDavisHansonInHisOwnWords?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o   👉 Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Well, I consider the Google Agarcapelleago to be the greatest book of the 20th century,

0:36.6

certainly greatest nonfiction book of the 20th century.

0:40.3

It's a book that does something that no other book does. It captures the tragedy of a people.

0:49.9

It captures the horrific experience of applied ideology, of totalitarianism of the 20th century,

0:59.7

while also telling Solzhenitsyn's own story.

1:02.6

Thomas Sol is a very rare, an admirable figure.

1:08.4

His life story, starting off as a young Marxist, you know, learning the

1:12.9

limits of collectivism in his graduate studies with people like Friedrich von Hayek. You know,

1:18.4

it's quite a story there. Jizek wrote a book in defense of the indefensible, and he has defenses of

1:26.3

Robespierre, whose writings he has collected. He thinks

1:31.2

Robespier was absolutely right. Political virtue and political terror are indistinguishable and go

1:37.0

hand in hand. Well, hello, ladies, and hello gentlemen, welcome to Victor Davis-Hanson, in his own words,

1:55.5

alas without Victor Davis-Hansson. This is one of the several Victor is recuperating episodes of the podcast that is

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