Good afternoon. I'm Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. I'm very happy to join you all today with my friend Victor Davis Hansen, one of the preeminent thinkers of our time, and a long time contributing editor to City Journal.

I know many of you have been eager for us to feature Victor at an event, so here it is.

Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute.

He's a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, and he's the author of more than two dozen books, including carnage and culture,

the Savior Generals, and more recently the Second World Wars, and last year's the case for Trump.

He writes regularly for the National Review and for countless other publications, including

City Journal.

He's a frequent Fox News contributor, and he's featured on two podcasts, the Victor Davis-Hansom

podcast with National Reviews Jack Fowler and Hoover's The Classicistist in which he talks with Troy Seneca.

If all that weren't enough, he continues to operate his family farm outside Selma, California,

where I once had the great pleasure of visiting you.

Victor is a former Ristin Prize recipient and he has received the nation's highest honor in the

Humanities, the National Humanities Medal.

So thanks for joining us today, Victor.

Thank you.

Great pleasure to have you, and to see you, if only virtually.

We'll have a 40 minute or so discussion followed by questions from the audience.

So let me start with what's on everybody's mind. I think as this

election, like 2016 revealed, America is a very polarized country and it's a polarization

that's political, it's cultural, and now increasingly geographical. You've written a lot, you know lot for us and in a number of your books

about the kind of tension and even conflict

between the rural and the urban.

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