Victor Davis Hanson "Unfiltered Rhetoric and Lax Justice Led to the Assassination of Charlie Kirk"(Encore)
The Eric Metaxas Show
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🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Historian and bestselling author Victor Davis Hanson joins Eric Metaxas for a hard-hitting conversation on the dangerous consequences of unchecked rhetoric and a justice system that fails to uphold equal accountability. Hanson argues that these failures directly contributed to the tragic political assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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| 0:00.0 | His war in the Middle East, the revival of an ancient conflict recorded in the Bible. |
| 0:05.1 | The nation of Israel is a resurrected nation. |
| 0:07.9 | So what if there was going to be a resurrection of another people, an enemy people of Israel? |
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| 0:42.3 | Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show. |
| 0:46.1 | Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen? |
| 0:48.8 | The blood-curdling threat of the blob. |
| 0:52.0 | Well, way back when Eric had a small part in that film, |
| 0:55.0 | but they had to cut his scene because the blob was supposed to eat him, but he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. |
| 1:00.1 | Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. |
| 1:04.4 | Eric, the Texas! |
| 1:44.9 | Hey there, folks, we're going to do something today that I think you'll really like. In 2020, five years ago, I had a wonderful conversation with our friend Charlie Kirk about his book that came out called The Maga Doctrine. It was such a wonderful conversation. I thought, I want to play that. So we're going to play that today for you. We're going to play it right now from 2020. Here it is. The ideas in this book are very important. And the way you frame these ideas is important because, look, I've been saying this for years. I think Andrew Breitbart stole from me, you know, that the politics is downstream of culture. I'm only half |
| 1:49.6 | joking because people have said this for many years, long before Andrew Breitbart. It's a fact. |
| 1:56.9 | So when evangelical Christians around 1980 got involved in politics, they got all excited about politics. |
| 2:03.5 | And I always say that's great. |
| 2:05.3 | But we're supposed to bring the gospel and our faith into every sphere, not just politics. |
| 2:12.2 | That's correct. |
| 2:12.6 | We've got to be involved in politics, but we ought to be involved in the culture. |
| 2:16.9 | Yes. |
| 2:16.9 | Sitcoms, talk shows, movies, every single part of the culture should be confused with the reality |
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