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We have been waiting a very long time for our very special guest, the perfect guest for

our manhood hour, an individual who has mapped for us, what it meant at the beginning of our

civilization, to be a warrior, how those men fought and has also mapped for us how Americans

fought in World War II and beyond.

He is Stafford University's Victor Davis Hansen, professor of strategy, military history,

anything that really matters in the classical age.

He's the author most recently of the case for Trump and the dying citizen, which just

now has come out in paperback.

Please, if you haven't read it, you have no excuse today.

Victor Davis Hansen.com is the website, also the podcast.

Welcome to our special manhood hour, Professor Hansen.

Thank you for having me.

All right, so I can't think of a better guest to have given what you've written about

Ancient Rome, about the warrior spirit, the two world wars dedicated to your relatives,

so seminal to your life who gave theirs in World War II.

Let's start at the beginning.

I just have a handful of questions.

The first one is, is masculinity?

Is the concept of manhood in trouble in Western civilization today?

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