Victor Davis Hanson "Unfiltered Rhetoric and Lax Justice Led to the Assassination of Charlie Kirk"
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 46 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 | Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show. Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen? |
| 0:16.4 | The blood-curdling prep of The Blob. Well, way back, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his |
| 0:23.3 | scene because the blob was supposed to eat him. |
| 0:25.9 | But he kept spitting him out. |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. |
| 0:30.1 | Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. |
| 0:34.4 | Eric, the Texas! |
| 0:40.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:42.1 | It's Tuesday, September 16th. |
| 0:47.3 | A lot of stuff. |
| 0:48.9 | Okay, first of all, today in hour one, I'm going to be talking to Victor Davis Hansen. It's always a big deal |
| 0:58.3 | to get him as a guest. If you don't know who he is, let me tell you, he's a big deal. He's an |
| 1:05.8 | amazing, amazing mind in this generation. Every time we get him, I consider it a big deal that we got him |
| 1:14.4 | just because his voice, there's nobody like him. So we're going to be talking to him, |
| 1:20.1 | Victor Davis Hansen, just a few minutes. In hour two, I have a few more minutes of my conversation |
| 1:27.1 | with Lucas Miles, who runs TPP USA Faith. |
| 1:31.0 | And then after that, my friend, David Englehart, David Englehart is the pastor of King's Church in New York City. |
| 1:39.9 | He's on the board of TPSA, a good friend of Charlie's, a very close friend of mine. |
| 1:47.2 | So we're going to be talking about Charlie and other things in our two. |
| 1:53.4 | Along those lines, I have to say, well, there's a number of things to say. |
| 2:00.4 | First of all, I want to say the film |
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