What About It, VDH?
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler
4.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this weekend episode, Victor Davis Hanson takes on questions from his readers: he explains his optimism in US, takes a look at China today, assesses the decline of the ancient Athenian empire, gives a short on the Suez Crisis of 1955-56, and analyzes the long view of progressive control in US politics.
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| 2:10.8 | It's called The Blade of Perseus and there's a comment section on it so we're going to look at |
| 2:15.0 | what our readers have to ask Victor today. Stay with us and we'll be right back. |
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