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Confronting the Major Challenges Facing the West
Like few times in world history, the future of our major public institutions appears to be uncertain. From declining levels of trust in government and education systems to questions about the future of the West, many wonder what our world will look like in the coming decade.
In this provocative dinner conversation between two of the world's leading diplomats, Ambassadors Robert O'Brien and Jacques Pitteloud, will explore three major issue areas in turn:
1. The state of higher education in preparing public leaders
2. The challenges and opportunities seen in the application of new technology
3. Possible threats from the geopolitical sphere
Robert C. O'Brien currently serves as a distinguished senior fellow at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. O’Brien was the 27th United States National Security Advisor from 2019 - 2021 and served as the President’s principal advisor in all aspects of American foreign policy and national security affairs. He is the co-founder and Chairman of American Global Strategies, LLC, a Washington, DC-based strategic advisory firm.
O’Brien brought a renewed focus to defense and industrial base issues to the NSC. A long-time advocate of a sea power and a 355 ship Navy, O’Brien visited leading shipyards during his tenure. He also spent time at defense plants and with our troops at bases around the world.
During O’Brien’s time as national security advisor, the United States orchestrated the historic Abraham Accords in the Middle East, brokered economic normalization between Serbia and Kosovo, achieved significant defense spending increases among our NATO allies and increased cooperation with America’s allies across the Indo-Pacific.
Prior to serving as NSA, O’Brien was the special presidential envoy for Hostage Affairs with the personal rank of ambassador. He was directly involved in the return of over 25 detainees and hostages to the United States. O’Brien previously served as co-chairman of the US Department of State Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan under both Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton.
O’Brien was also a presidentially-appointed member of the US Cultural Property Advisory Committee from 2008-2011. In 2005, O’Brien was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate to serve as a US Representative to the 60th session of the UN General Assembly. Earlier in his career, O’Brien served as a senior legal officer for the UN Security Council commission that decided claims against Iraq arising out of the first Gulf War. He was a Major in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the US Army Reserve.
O’Brien is the recipient of the National Security Medal, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the National Defense Medal, the Legion d’honneur (chevalier) and the Kosovo Presidential Medal of Merits.
In July 2022, O’Brien was elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Richard Nixon Foundation. He also serves as co-chair with Secretary Pompeo of The Nixon Seminar on Conservative Realism and National Security.
O’Brien holds a JD from the UC Berkeley School of Law. He received his BA degree in political science, cum laude, from UCLA.
Ambassador Pitteloud was born on November 12, 1962, in Zurich, Switzerland. Pitteloud earned a master’s degree and a doctorate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Zurich (Master’s 1986, PhD 1987). Following an assignment in the Middle East, he also graduated from the International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC) at Geneva University. He speaks French, English, German, Swiss German, Italian and Spanish fluently, and has a basic knowledge of a few other languages.
Ambassador Pitteloud joined the Swiss Foreign Service in 1987, first serving as advisor to the foreign minister. From 1988 to 1989, he was a commercial attaché at the Swiss Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. From 1990 to 1995, he worked in the Swiss Strategic Intelligence Service. Following this, he served as personal advisor to two successive defense ministers until 1999. From 1999 to 2000, he led a study group tasked with redeveloping the structure of the Swiss Armed Forces.
Pitteloud then served as the Swiss government’s first intelligence coordinator from 2000 to 2005, after which he was appointed director for Arms Control, Disarmament, Security Policy and Intelligence at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bern.
From 2010 to 2015, Jacques Pitteloud was ambassador of Switzerland to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, and the Seychelles. Following this assignment, he took up the position of resources director of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in September 2015.
On September 16, 2019, Jacques Pitteloud was accredited as Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States of America.
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(Robby George) Is There a Cure for Campus Illiberalism?
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On Friday, April 5, 2024 Pepperdine University School of Public Policy hosted an event at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library entitled, " Is There a Cure for Campus Illiberalism?" featuring one of America's foremost authorities on campus speech, Dr. Robby George, Ronald Reagan Honorary Distinguished Professor, Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Recent events on America's college campuses ha...
(Stephen Eide) Homeless America: Creative and Compassionate Responses to a Cross-Sector Challenge
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On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 The Pepperdine School of Public Policy hosted “Homeless America: Creative and Compassionate Responses to a Cross-Sector Challenge” conference in downtown Los Angeles. Before COVID struck the United States in early 2020, California governor, Gavin Newsom, gave his annual “State of the State Address”, which was focused on addressing the burgeoning homelessness crisis in...
Homeless America Panel 1: The Role for Government
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On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 The Pepperdine School of Public Policy hosted “Homeless America: Creative and Compassionate Responses to a Cross-Sector Challenge” conference in downtown Los Angeles. Before COVID struck the United States in early 2020, California governor, Gavin Newsom, gave his annual “State of the State Address”, which was focused on addressing the burgeoning homelessness crisis in...
(Michele Steeb) Keynote Address Homeless America
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On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 The Pepperdine School of Public Policy hosted “Homeless America: Creative and Compassionate Responses to a Cross-Sector Challenge” conference in downtown Los Angeles. Before COVID struck the United States in early 2020, California governor, Gavin Newsom, gave his annual “State of the State Address”, which was focused on addressing the burgeoning homelessness crisis in...
Homeless America Panel 2: The Role for Nonprofits
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On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 The Pepperdine School of Public Policy hosted “Homeless America: Creative and Compassionate Responses to a Cross-Sector Challenge” conference in downtown Los Angeles. Before COVID struck the United States in early 2020, California governor, Gavin Newsom, gave his annual “State of the State Address”, which was focused on addressing the burgeoning homelessness crisis in...
Homeless America Reflections on the Day: A Keynote Conversation
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On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 The Pepperdine School of Public Policy hosted “Homeless America: Creative and Compassionate Responses to a Cross-Sector Challenge” conference in downtown Los Angeles. Before COVID struck the United States in early 2020, California governor, Gavin Newsom, gave his annual “State of the State Address”, which was focused on addressing the burgeoning homelessness crisis in...
PANEL 3: McAllister on Strauss and Voegelin: A30-Year Head Start on the Post-Liberal Era
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On March 16, 2024 the School of Public Policy was honored to host “Coming Home: Exploring the Work of Ted McAllister,” a conference which discussed the scholarship of the late Ted McAllister, Edward L. Gaylord Chair and Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (SPP). It was regularly remarked that the School of Public Policy was the only graduate policy program ...
PANEL 4: Coming Home
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On March 16, 2024 the School of Public Policy was honored to host “Coming Home: Exploring the Work of Ted McAllister,” a conference which discussed the scholarship of the late Ted McAllister, Edward L. Gaylord Chair and Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (SPP). It was regularly remarked that the School of Public Policy was the only graduate policy program ...
(Featured Testimonials) Coming Home: Exploring the Work of Ted McAllister
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On March 16, 2024 the School of Public Policy was honored to host “Coming Home: Exploring the Work of Ted McAllister,” a conference which discussed the scholarship of the late Ted McAllister, Edward L. Gaylord Chair and Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (SPP). It was regularly remarked that the School of Public Policy was the only graduate policy program ...
(Matthew Crawford) The Rise of Antihumanism
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On March 16, 2024 the School of Public Policy was honored to host “Coming Home: Exploring the Work of Ted McAllister,” a conference which discussed the scholarship of the late Ted McAllister, Edward L. Gaylord Chair and Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (SPP). It was regularly remarked that the School of Public Policy was the only graduate policy program ...
(Darren Staloff) Keynote Address: The Stories We Tell
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On March 16, 2024 the School of Public Policy was honored to host “Coming Home: Exploring the Work of Ted McAllister,” a conference which discussed the scholarship of the late Ted McAllister, Edward L. Gaylord Chair and Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (SPP). It was regularly remarked that the School of Public Policy was the only graduate policy program ...
PANEL 2: The Rise of Antihumanism
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On March 16, 2024 the School of Public Policy was honored to host “Coming Home: Exploring the Work of Ted McAllister,” a conference which discussed the scholarship of the late Ted McAllister, Edward L. Gaylord Chair and Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (SPP). It was regularly remarked that the School of Public Policy was the only graduate policy program ...
PANEL 1: The Stories We Tell
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On March 16, 2024 the School of Public Policy was honored to host “Coming Home: Exploring the Work of Ted McAllister,” a conference which discussed the scholarship of the late Ted McAllister, Edward L. Gaylord Chair and Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (SPP). It was regularly remarked that the School of Public Policy was the only graduate policy program ...
(Bruce Frohnen) Keynote Address: How Shall We Govern Ourselves?
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(Bruce Frohnen) Keynote Address: How Shall We Govern Ourselves?
(Michael Shires) New Opportunities for Free Speech in American Higher Education
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(Michael Shires) New Opportunities for Free Speech in American Higher Education
(Ian Rowe) The 'F.R.E.E.' Program to Promote Economic Opportunity
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(Ian Rowe) The 'F.R.E.E.' Program to Promote Economic Opportunity
Elections, Conflicts and Crises
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Elections, Conflicts and Crises
Kay Coles James: A Life of Faithful Leadership in Politics and Policy
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Kay Coles James: A Life of Faithful Leadership in Politics and Policy
Why Should Our Leaders Care About Human Flourishing?
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Why Should Our Leaders Care About Human Flourishing?
Office Hours with Victor Davis Hanson: Korean War / Matthew Ridgway
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Office Hours with Victor Davis Hanson: Korean War / Matthew Ridgway
Campus Antisemitism/Campus Speech: A Conversation
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Campus Antisemitism/Campus Speech: A Conversation
Opening Keynote: Rabbi Dr Meir Soloveichik - Making Men Moral Conference
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Opening Keynote: Rabbi Dr Meir Soloveichik - Making Men Moral Conference
Keynote: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. - Making Men Moral 30th Conference
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Keynote: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. - Making Men Moral 30th Conference
Office Hours with Victor Davis Hanson: Sherman
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Office Hours with Victor Davis Hanson: Sherman
Why Study at SPP with Dr. Steven Hayward
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Why Study at SPP with Dr. Steven Hayward
Office Hours with Victor Davis Hanson: Patton
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Office Hours with Victor Davis Hanson: Patton
Fragile Neighborhoods, an interview with Seth Kaplan
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Fragile Neighborhoods, an interview with Seth Kaplan
(Rafael Mangual) Revisiting Broken Windows: Connecting Theory to Policy for America's Public Safety
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(Rafael Mangual) Revisiting Broken Windows: Connecting Theory to Policy for America's Public Safety
Revisiting Broken Windows: Panel 1 - A Scholarly Review of“Broken Windows”
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Revisiting Broken Windows: Panel 1 - A Scholarly Review of“Broken Windows”

Komentáře

  • @Conn30Mtenor
    @Conn30Mtenor Před 6 dny

    These religious types who bang on about Jesus are the same who would overturn democracy and change the USA into a fundie Christian version of Iran.

  • @user-bz6eu7ie8c
    @user-bz6eu7ie8c Před 9 dny

    Thank you for doing these. Listening to these are "Storytime" for me.

  • @TeamSimpleStuff
    @TeamSimpleStuff Před 10 dny

    When Trump wins in November, he would do well to recruit VDH to has cabinet, preferably, Secretary of State.

  • @paulh2468
    @paulh2468 Před 17 dny

    Thanks Dr. Hanson. This video made me do a 180 on my understanding of Patton.

  • @andrewbaldwin4454
    @andrewbaldwin4454 Před 20 dny

    Great interview. However, VDH should reconsider using the people of the Crimea as his example of the need for disproportionality in warfare. The mainly Russophone people of Crimea didn't start the military conflict in Ukraine. They peacefully voted to leave Ukraine shortly before Ukraine voted for independence. It was the Kyiv government that used force of arms to submit them to the control of Kyiv. Later, in 2014, as Obama acknowledged, the US helped sponsor a violent and unconstitutional regime change that led immediately to passage of legislation abolishing Russophone minority rights in Ukraine, including Crimea. VDH is an impressive scholar of warfare, but he isn't well acquainted with the Former Soviet Union.

  • @daavvyy
    @daavvyy Před 20 dny

    I recently started watching VDH and this Man is Simply Brilliant 👏

  • @user-kx9jm7bg7w
    @user-kx9jm7bg7w Před 21 dnem

    Love Vic!

  • @cosceworld4793
    @cosceworld4793 Před 21 dnem

    01:03:05

  • @donporter8432
    @donporter8432 Před 23 dny

    Outstanding !!

  • @jacquelinebest3689
    @jacquelinebest3689 Před 24 dny

    Really enjoyed Victor David Hansion talk 😊.

  • @dankelly2147
    @dankelly2147 Před měsícem

    Outstanding session. Thank you.

  • @nealbrandvik2619
    @nealbrandvik2619 Před měsícem

    I’m fascinated by this guy! He knows so much about history yet he supports a wanna be dictator who precisely fits the description of the Antichrist in the Bible. He supports a guy who will end our republic. Maybe VDH is lost in trees of history but unable to see the forest. When the Caesar’s ended the Roman experiment in self government they crucified the living God! Oh well God works out all things for good in the end 😊

  • @autotransportbroker
    @autotransportbroker Před měsícem

    Thank you Amy and Alan!

  • @jedanderson8172
    @jedanderson8172 Před měsícem

    Great discussion.

  • @michaeldodd6425
    @michaeldodd6425 Před měsícem

    Wow VDH knowledge off the cuff is super impressive

  • @marjoriespencer100
    @marjoriespencer100 Před měsícem

    love Victor Hanson; so appreciate his educated clarity

  • @acerpalmatum6446
    @acerpalmatum6446 Před měsícem

    Dennis is the reason I began taking my family to church. I am forever grateful for his Rational Bible series.

  • @user-we2qv1cx6x
    @user-we2qv1cx6x Před měsícem

    This was great and spoke to the exact reason why I study the classics. History especially. Great written works throughout history show snapshots of human nature. The good and the bad. Heroic ideals to aspire towards, and the hubris, other mistakes to avoid.. if used in the right way, it can help us aim our life, our actions in a better direction. Towards success and excellence. Helping us while helping those around us.

  • @nancykisich3263
    @nancykisich3263 Před měsícem

    I loved Religion On the Line! Also I grew up listening to you in the backseat of our car❤ thank you

  • @poetmaggie1
    @poetmaggie1 Před měsícem

    A cure for politics is to stop taking politic so seriously, the real problems are spiritual not physical and they can't be solved by emotional and physical means, which is all politics are.

  • @christinat.7264
    @christinat.7264 Před 2 měsíci

    Interesting. Love hearing what VDH has to say, his analysis of world events. It's so true, human nature has not changed, only the weapons.

  • @satyricusm
    @satyricusm Před 2 měsíci

    Lee Trepanier suggests (or meant to suggest) that for Strauss you cannot be both a philosopher and a believer. While S does note that in a modern context you cannot be at once a philosopher and a theologian, he does not at all dismiss the classical notion of fides quaerens intellectum: man believes for the sake of understanding via reflection. The problem S addresses is one of *priorities*. For S's Platonic classics (both ancient and medieval), the philosopher-as-philosopher does not believe, BUT this does not mean that he rejects the content of belief. Quite to the contrary: he seeks to understand it. That is the work of natural reason, which illuminates human certainties from within, exposing them to a reality transcending them (qua human certainties). A divine reality. __ps On Strauss as both philosopher and (religious) Jew, see Kenneth Hart Green's _Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss_

  • @satyricusm
    @satyricusm Před 2 měsíci

    It is not clear how if at all Mark Blitz's Strauss is not a Spinozist. Blitz speaks of a conservative defense of a common sense beyond which, however, the philosophers seeks (true) knowledge; he also speaks of "the possibility" of natural right. Where, however is the Platonic sacredness of common sense? Where the *actuality* of natural right? For a parallel presentation of Strauss, see Hilail Gildin's Chicago conference intervention on YT.

  • @user-vm7xw5om3l
    @user-vm7xw5om3l Před 2 měsíci

    Not enough people have watched this video. If more people listened to the wisdom of Dennis Prager, the world would be a much better, loving, and moral place!

  • @Joemammatype3
    @Joemammatype3 Před 2 měsíci

    The Korean War never gets the respect it deserves. As a former marine I am well aware of how brutal it was.

  • @stephenmccartneyst3ph3nm85
    @stephenmccartneyst3ph3nm85 Před 2 měsíci

    Patton is the most overrated General of all time. If he's such a genius, please, someone show me an example of his tactical acumen. A single battle that demonstrates his incredible ingenuity. Where is his Cannae?

  • @avenaoat
    @avenaoat Před 2 měsíci

    Not too many know Mark Twain began in the proconfederate militia in Missouri (his native city Hanibal was at the edge of the the proconfederate Little Dixie in Missouri) in 1861, but he became prounionist in Nevada by 1863 and he helped and published Grant's autobiograph.

  • @takeoverusa
    @takeoverusa Před 2 měsíci

    Thank you all so very much. All of you are sincerely appreciate. God Bess with love. JL

  • @lyrical_doa5538
    @lyrical_doa5538 Před 2 měsíci

    We have a moral obligation to learn how to make a case for God, for the bible and our religion.

  • @paradiseisland786
    @paradiseisland786 Před 2 měsíci

    Hanson is definitely connected to his essence which is non-dimensional.

  • @paradiseisland786
    @paradiseisland786 Před 2 měsíci

    Victor Hanson and his Psyche are on another level of the non-dimensional, his identity is obviously connected to his essence.

  • @timothyjones74
    @timothyjones74 Před 2 měsíci

    Long live VDH

  • @daviddavenport9350
    @daviddavenport9350 Před 2 měsíci

    Apropos of the Midwestern farmers as fighters...it was said that when Philip Sheridan was sent as an observer to the Franco-Prussian war...he telegraphed back to Grant..."Give me the Wisconsin regiments and I'll whip both of these armies at the same time!"......

  • @DT-abcd
    @DT-abcd Před 2 měsíci

    General Westmoreland was a great General in Vietnam. He wanted to destroy the NVA, but Washington didn't want that. He was fired and replaced by a yes man General. Westmoreland would never have agreed to just walking away without winning the war. The democrats would not fund the Vietnam War anymore. The democrats are the communist that Patton wanted to defeat in Russia. The Russian people would have been on our side. Same thing happened in Korea. The North Korean army had been wiped put. We were fighting the Chinese by the end of the war. The state department has had their hands in not letting the communist be defeated. Afghanistan is another example. If the state department has their way Hamas will not be defeated. America is in grave danger if Trump doesn't win in November. Right now he is our only chance of turning this around without a civil war.

  • @DT-abcd
    @DT-abcd Před 2 měsíci

    Patton wanted tanks And 1000 gallons of fuel so he could go into Russia and defeat communism. He was killed in a jeep. His famous quote "Don't die for your country, make the other son of a Bitch die for his."

  • @keithehrman5490
    @keithehrman5490 Před 2 měsíci

    Speaker of the house.

  • @erzahler1930
    @erzahler1930 Před 3 měsíci

    I wish I was much younger. I would love to sit in on one of Mr. Hanson's classes. I have long loved history, especially ancient history.

  • @hezkyden
    @hezkyden Před 3 měsíci

    Very interesting conversation and congratulations for its success must also go to Pete Peterson for his intelligent questions and for not interrupting Davis-Hansen's flow or for not feeling impelled to contribute his own ideas.

  • @lynnjohnson4417
    @lynnjohnson4417 Před 3 měsíci

    Victor Davis Hanson - one of the smartest, wisest men in America. We need to learn from him. He is one of the great thinkers of our time.

  • @erikvynckier4819
    @erikvynckier4819 Před 3 měsíci

    Mixtotesticles spoke wisely.

  • @guinevere4365
    @guinevere4365 Před 3 měsíci

    Victor I have come to realize we have been systematically invaded by an unknown enemy who wants to destroy us. I do think Trump knows this and is trying to save us while being attacked from all sides. Victor you know all this. I’m 77 so will do everything I can to wake people up around me but they hate Trump and close their minds. Thank you Victor for laying out the road map. ❤

  • @stevewhitaker1474
    @stevewhitaker1474 Před 3 měsíci

    Excellent !!

  • @cos2mer2
    @cos2mer2 Před 3 měsíci

    I would consider selling my soul to sit in a class with Professor VDH !!!!!

  • @BryieURuncal2023
    @BryieURuncal2023 Před 3 měsíci

    No Pepperdine for my kids ever.

  • @richardmourdock2719
    @richardmourdock2719 Před 4 měsíci

    Very enjoyable text. Strongly recommend it.

  • @larsthorwald3338
    @larsthorwald3338 Před 4 měsíci

    I like Amy Wax, but Dershowitz is a turd. 💩

  • @royolstad8532
    @royolstad8532 Před 4 měsíci

    Victor Davis Hanson. I am so glad he is around, he's paying attention, and he's a bulwark in the center of the flood. I'd love to take him fishing up in the mountains.

  • @jimkreegerjr.8813
    @jimkreegerjr.8813 Před 4 měsíci

    This also sounds much like Jephthah in the book of Judges.

  • @jbopiddy2169
    @jbopiddy2169 Před 4 měsíci

    VDH is goat.

  • @jeffreyswing8174
    @jeffreyswing8174 Před 4 měsíci

    VDH understands the farmer of Ancient Greece and Rome, because he is a farmer, he is their heir. VDH understands the scholarship of the Athenian noble, because he is a scholar. VDH understands the political mind of the ruling class because he has fought and resisted them his entire live. VDH can synthesize the tides of society because he straddles all the currents.