Hello ladies, hello gentlemen. This is the Victor Davis Hanson show. I'm Jack Fowler, the host,

Victor Davis Hanson, is the star in the name, say, and he is the Martin and Eli Anderson senior fellow

at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marcia Busky distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale

College. You know, that Hoover Institution is located on the campus of Stanford University and

Victor has a really important essay that he's written about, not only Stanford, but the whole Silicon

Valley area and its gosh, its influence, its massive influence on America and the world. And we're

going to get Victor's thoughts on the PCs written and let him elaborate on his themes. We'll do that

right after these important messages. We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show. So Victor,

you know, we talk a lot about how Stanford, we talk a lot about the Silicon Valley on this podcast.

I don't think we talk about it enough almost because of just the overwhelming influence. This, you know,

few square miles of of our of earth have had on America and the culture and the world and the

economy and I don't know what it hasn't had influence on. Victor, you've written a significant essay

in the new criterion, which is a the scholarly, I'm going to say quarterly because it comes out 10

times a year. I don't know what you call that 10, 10, but Roger Kimbell is the editor of it and I

know you write essays for it on a somewhat regular basis. And this one in the new issues titled

Silicon Valley's moral bankruptcy on the pestilence in northern California. Victor, I have this

thought of like the wild bunch at the end where you were just you've got the machine gun and it's

going in every direction. Of course, I hope you don't get killed. I'm like, the movie you know,

I don't know. I'm going to go back to work tonight. And I don't know what's in store for me. But

well, this is this this this stings wherever you aim at. So tell us about this essay while you

wrote it and it's major themes. Well, the theme is that there's three centers of power that run

California. And that blueprint is what is fueling the national democratic party. The first is a lot

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