Every time I listen to the great VDH I learn so much, no one comes close to his brilliance and ability to clearly explain events.

@maximuscomfort

5 ай бұрын

His calm detail of war and conflict is just amazing.

@TC-cd5fh

5 ай бұрын

Don't agree that others don't come close. Agree that he's good - very good.

@JamesBrooke-co7od

Ай бұрын

@TC-cd5fh who are the others?

@aaronestrada7354

Ай бұрын

Exactly! His understanding of human nature and history is extraordinarily keen,vivid, and insightful.

@peterparicka7933

Ай бұрын

Calm and wrong

VDH America's favorite farmer and most vital scholar

@TTFN55

5 ай бұрын

Nailed it!

Victor Davis Hanson is a National Treasure. He should be required reading for many, especially at the High School and Undergraduate level.

I would like Victor Davis Hanson to become the President of the United States ...

I've learned more from VDH than any university class I've ever attended. Cool, calm, collected, when offering his wise wisdom and most of all his common sense approach to history and solutions to current events!!

When this man speaks...YOU LISTEN!

When ever I have a hard time with our current situation here in 2023 I will find some Victor David Hanson to bring clarity to my thoughts.

History is the window of tomorrow's success. Victor Davis Hanson aids our knowledge. Thanks, Mr Hanson.

@TTFN55

5 ай бұрын

Dr. VDH is my go-to for military history. LOVE the guy!

Thank you Victor for sharing your great knowledge and insights, as well as your continuous effort to fight global Antisemitism.

Please do a lecture on General Lee

VDH is a true intellectual and knows the history without editing it. I am confused why 13,352 views and only 573 likes. It does not make sense. He is the one guy I always want make time to watch and I will listen to him. I hope his students digest his teaching and that they can objectively digest it.

Pepperdine is a fine institution and VDH is their finest professor.

This particular office hour discussing Sherman hit so close to home. I'm a farmer's daughter from Ohio who has lived in the South for 20+ years now. Everything VDH said about Sherman's troops from what was the western US at the time is so true. German/Scandinavian farmers, etc who knew how to work and were excellent marksmen wasn't something I'd really put much thought into. Just a fact of life at home. And the poor whites in the south who were treated worse than the slaves, those folks were indentured servants and the children of indentured servants. The world, this world we live in today, becomes a little bit clearer, even when talking about Sherman and the Civil War. I have really enjoyed these office hours with VDH. My first introduction to Pepperdine University. I look forward to the next one.

VDH a American treasure. Learn so much .

Oh cool! A new VDH video. Perfect! Thank for this series. I'm astonished at Dr Hanson's in depth analyses and how history continues to relate to today. Outstanding.

This is excellent, more please more!

Wow, what an invigorating dive into history. I thoroughly enjoyed the contrast to the current day insanity.

One of the greatest minds of our century. Dr. Hansen always provides a unique and detailed perspective on the subject in review. I find his interviews refreshing and extremely informative discussions.

Listening to this series for the second time. VDH is worth the time. 😅

Another excellent video featuring Victor Davis Hanson. A very educational and thought provoking hour well spent.

The Man is a Titan

Thank you! Another great lesson in History. VDH is not only a great historian, and a teacher, but a great thinker. His insights are truly enlightening.

VDH’s deep learning, insights and understanding are a revelation, which opens eyes. He is a treasure whose work should be taught in every classroom.

These episodes are SO great! Educational, and riveting. Please keep them coming.

OUTSTANDING Yet another outstanding analysis of issues from VDH in this interview with Pete Peterson. Discussions of this type should be a standard form of presentation in schools and colleges. Victor's assessment of the current situation on Gaza, at 37:57, (whilst not strictly the subject of this discussion), is spot on. What we have to remember is that the concept of 'Proportionality' was pushed at us in the film The American President, (Michael Douglas, Annette Bening , Martin Sheen & Michael J. Fox), when we were treated to a discussion inside The Situation Room. The use of 'Proportionality'....as portrayed in this film is to justify an American response that is limited. Unfortunately what this did was to portray an image of America across the world that would act in a limited manner in dealing with an issue; namely that it would always pull its punches. Whilst this seemed sane and sensible within the context of the problem and response being discussed in The Situation Room, in the film, it was actually anything but. It sent a signal to the terrorists and enemies of the US that it would act with one arm tied behind its back in any form of conflict. Everything since then has brought chaos based upon this. One of the best examples of this was the response to the attacks on The Twin Towers on 9/11, where the bombing of the terrorists in the Tora Bora Mountains was not followed through as it should have been, thus allowing them to escape into Pakistan. The War in Iraq....the 20 year Debacle in Afghanistan.....reveal similar instances. Winston Churchill observed that, ".......One can always rely on the Americans to do the right thing; after they have exhausted all the other possibilities...." Churchill was correct, but the doctrine has not served America well.... James Hennighan Yorkshire, England

Fascinating and so full of information, as usual. Thank you.

This was one of VDH best.

Before she died my mother related some stories her 97 year old grandfather had told her about the Civil War. He was with the 23rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry which participated in Shermans March. He told her that the one aspect of the whole campaign that stuck in his mind was seeing the southern women picking grains of undigested corn from the piles of horse poop that were left as the Union troops advanced.

Excellent discussion. I appreciate DVH mentioned the War in Israel . Everything he said was insightful and valuable to know.

As a soldier in the U.S. Army from private to Lieutenant Colonel at retirement my success rested on what one of my commanders said. One commander said something that represents what I found successful. He said, "You keep doing what I want and if you get leaned on I will provide you overhead cover.". I appreciate this series as a validation of what I did in the Army. I stand in awe of the genius of VDH.

So many valuable insights that are applicable to so many times. Truly amazing and thrilling. A clear stance on war is something I have struggled to articulate. Indeed, if you are anti war what the hell do you do with evil? Appease? Capitulate? And does evil next door get a pass because it isn't at your door? I say, 'No.' But it really helps to flesh out all these perplexing, difficult questions with people who have lived the 'reality' of war and evil and struggled with the same questions. VDH brings history to life and that is potent!

VDH as a guest? I will watch! Them’s the rules.

@ginachristine7721

2 ай бұрын

👍👍

I could listen to VDH talk all day….

I wish these would never end! Thank you so much for putting these together. Vdh is an American treasure

A brilliant mind. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

thank you for this interview. brimming with relevance.

I was always impressed with General Sherman's habit of walking around the camp at night, sitting and talking with the men beside their fires. The men loved him for this and it's a great lesson that I try to use with my employees. I'll jump in and do their job on the construction site because I want them to know that I won't ask them to do anything that I won't do. It's helpful for the spirit of the crew.

@JP67

5 ай бұрын

I guess he also talked to them about all the women they raped that day and the children they burned in their homes.Yes he likely participated as well.He was anything but a hero.Domestic terrorist and barbarian, criminal is a better description. To victors go the spoils.They get to spin the history books to suit them.Lincoln was also a criminal responsible for 500,000 unnecessary deaths.

I looked for this video after the Patton video, and was disappointed that it didn't show up. Well, of course not: it hadn't been done or uploaded yet. This is a pleasant, unexpected surprise.

I have read everything by VDH! One of the very few scholars that understand the full scope of war. I learn so much from VDH and get a comprehensive view of the events he’s teaching. Thank you for this!

Fascinating! I didn’t want it to end. VDH has an exceptional perspective on every topic. I thoroughly enjoyed this edition of “Office Hours”. Thank you, Pepperdine, for sharing the excellent mind of VDH with all of us.

I would have loved to have VDH as a professor when I was a college student many years ago.

Fascinating discourse.

Brilliant man

Thank you

VDH- incomparable. such insight from past to present.

When will the 4th part of this series be issued? So far the series is fantastic and informative.

Really enjoying this series. These sit downs are fascinating. I stumbled upon the book in my local library recently and read the prologue. I have since added it to my book list!

Can listen to Dr.Hanson all day.

I have a lot of respect for VDH. Having said that I have real problem with Sherman pedestal. Sherman did not face an Army, He brought war and terror to a civilian population.

Excellent. And I'm a Southerner!

National Treasure of a man .

VDH is a National Treasure- facts will hurt feelings but natural reality and sciences won’t care only prevail eventually.

Sherman has always been my favorite General, and my Virginia ancestors lost that War, rightly so.

Excellent. Thank you.

Wow, this man is brilliant! all should listen!

When Dr. Hanson talks about Sherman and how swiftly and decisively he could move his army, it reminds me of Julius Ceasar. He could March his troops 50 miles a day and was constantly sending letters to Rome to report to the senate, and they were freaked out about his swiftness. And, of course, he outmanuvered anyone he came up against.

I never knew how correct Sherman was when he took the war to the people that supported the war effort.

A 5 star video.

Lincoln's primary motivation was not about ending slavery. In August 1862, Lincoln stated: "If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." The northern elite owned the mills and factories that depended on the souths cotton and agriculture. Every bale of captured cotton went north. Like the motivating reason to invade Iraq was 911, so too was freeing the slaves used as motivation to invade the South but not until the war was well under way. Must remember the North had slaves also.

I was reading an article a while ago where the author shows that it was a myth that the South had no middle class, contrary to what Hanson says here. It doesn't make sense that it wouldn't have a middle class.

Excellent !!

It's interesting how history tends to remember wealthy people......

If VDH is speaking I am listening. Read his books and has common American horse sense.

Listen to VDH and Sowell for a year and it will equal a four year degree in Liberal Arts.

VDH doesn’t hold back

Appreciate the analogies between Hamas/IDF and Confederates/Sherman.

VDH 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I enjoy VDH, I am likely the only person to say this, but belive Sherman committed some war crimes on his March to the sea.

Sherman could have ended the war by capturing or defeating the Army of Tennessee. Instead he terrorized innocent Americans, burned property and captured cotton.

If only liberals surrendered their arrogance for one hour to listen to this video, it might deflate their sense of untouchability enough to provide a moment of clarity and reflection.

Round III?

@markwilliams974

5 ай бұрын

I think so.

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Dean Peterson, what is the title of the book you are holding?

@marciandjohn6320

5 ай бұрын

Disregard.

I love VDH, but the idea that succession was somehow wrong is utterly antithetical to what our founders believed. The people who seceded from Britain supported states rights to secede.

Thank you for the interview. I looked up the 'Soul of Battle' on Amazon and the hardcover is listed for $101. Any chance the price will come down soon ?

I love Victor Davis Hanson, but I'm skeptical of his assertion that the vast majority of Confederate soldiers were either poor whites or "plantation grandees." Most of them were small farmers themselves and not slaveholders. On the other hand, I could be convinced otherwise if the evidence showed it. Comparing the Confederacy to Hamas is wildly unapropos and unpersuasive. However, nothing I have said should be taken to mean that succession was a good idea, that slavery was anything but an intolerable injustice that had to be abolished, or that the outcome of the war should have been otherwise.

My dad was a captain and officer in World War II and then he stayed in until 1963 and retired from the army National Guard. So at the beginning of the desert storm war, I asked him what he would do and he actually told me he would nuke Saddam Hussein, and that sort of set me back, because I thought he was a reasonable person which he was and then I got to thinking that’s what an army is for to put a stop to the madness just like during World War II which he witnessed the nuclear bombs and Hiroshima and Nagasaki put into the madness, so that’s what he was familiar with

The Hamas terrorists were disproportionate in their murdering of Israelis. Why should the IDF be disproportionate in Gaza?

overall a good talk but the comparison to the current Israeli-Palestinian fight does not seem correct. he just got done talking about the fact that Sherman pillaged the plantations but did not slaughter the civilians and from the reporting it seems like a lot of civilians are being killed in Gaza. Plus of course in the south the men were gone fighting and all that was left was civilians. whereas in Gaza, the fighters are most likely hiding among the civilians. so again a poor comparison.

Wish VDH had kept his comments to Sherman. His glorification of Israel in this context was… odd.

Sherman hated the plantation class. Almost as much as MAGA hates the uniparty.

Why do you say white, but you cannot say black?