Pepperdine School of Public Policy
Pepperdine School of Public Policy
The School of Public Policy, located in Malibu, California, enrolls approximately 100 students and offers a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree built on a distinctive philosophy of nurturing leaders to use the tools of analysis and policy design to effect successful implementation and real change.
The program offers specializations in American Politics, economics, international relations, and state and local policy.
It prepares graduates for careers as leaders and seeks also to strengthen the institutions which lie between the federal government and the individual, including the family, religious organizations, volunteer associations, local and regional government, and nonprofit organizations.
Joint degree programs include the MPP/JD degree and the MPP/MDR degree in conjunction with the School of Law and the MPP/MBA degree in conjunction with the Graziadio School of Business and Management.
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Thank you Amy and Alan!
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.
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.
Victor's the best!! His knowledge is so valuable!! 🦅
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_
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.
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!
The Korean War never gets the respect it deserves. As a former marine I am well aware of how brutal it was.
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?
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.
Thank you all so very much. All of you are sincerely appreciate. God Bess with love. JL
We have a moral obligation to learn how to make a case for God, for the bible and our religion.
Hanson is definitely connected to his essence which is non-dimensional.
Victor Hanson and his Psyche are on another level of the non-dimensional, his identity is obviously connected to his essence.
Long live VDH
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!"......
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.
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."
Speaker of the house.
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.
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.
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.
Mixtotesticles spoke wisely.
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. ❤
Excellent !!
I would consider selling my soul to sit in a class with Professor VDH !!!!!
No Pepperdine for my kids ever.
Very enjoyable text. Strongly recommend it.
I like Amy Wax, but Dershowitz is a turd. 💩
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.
This also sounds much like Jephthah in the book of Judges.
VDH is goat.
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.
An absolute American treasure. Full Stop
The key to flourishing is ballace in your lives work home communication wealth relationships time to relax and sleep all has one thing in common and it's to take the time to see where your going and take that road to get you there like the prisoner said everything was going so fast in the outside world he didn't see the stop signs to tell him to take it and he ended up taking the wrong path if this world keeps on the persuit of not stopping to take time we will all fail.
Excellent
Respect....
VDH is a national treasure.
Folks, it matters not whether he's narrating the Peloponnesian War, explaining democeacy in classical Athens or describing the pirblems he's having with the septic system on the farm, when VDH speaks wise people listen
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!!
Where is the wisdom in giving decisions on going to War to political hacks whose life experience is centered on speaking to gender Votes ?
Patton was right. We should've went on to Moscow. America wasn't ignorant to the soviet union and what they were doing, just chose to turn a blind eye to it. The cold war began long before the end of WW2
I could listen to victor for hours
Great show.....thank you...
wait, Napoleon set the jews free? I no longer like him
A thoroughly enjoyable series with the wonderfully knowledgeable Dr. Gordon Lloyd. A true shame he is no longer wish us, God rest his soul. Terrifically conducted as well by Mr. Peterson
Korea was really the only successful war of containment but of course policy makers learned all the wrong lessons and applied them to Vietnam in the short-run and places like Afghanistan later on. Ridgway did save the day in Korea. MacArthur had made a mess of things but Truman bears as much blame as anyone. The Chinese had said they would come in if UN forces pushed north. They had passed this warning along through the Indian government on more than one occasion. But Truman was still considering a third crack at the presidency and he had just got the crap kicked out of him over the "who lost China" issue. If he had had the stones and better judgment he would have stopped at the 38th Parallel and worked on building up an actual democracy in the South. He went with MacArthur way past his sell-by-date and as Dr. Hanson points out, the Chiefs went along with it. After Inchon they were afraid of making any move against the guy. Bradley was a decent enough fellow but he was in over his head as CJS and his post-war support of the budget cuts that resulted in the military being a shell of what it had been five years earlier also played a key role in the debacle the war started out as. If you're going to take on world leadership and act as the police you better have enough firepower to do it. Still, the Korean War did ensure millions of people would be given a chance to live in freedom and for that reason alone it was more than just a tie. It's sad that so many people died but as the video points out a whole lot more of them would have died if Truman had just let the commies have their way in 1950. It was as much a test of resolve as anything else and Stalin saw that Americans wouldn't retreat into their typical post-war isolationist shell when push came to shove. The sad part is, the war allowed the French to tie their colonial war to the Cold War and Eisenhower compounded the mistake by telling Diem to ignore the Geneva accords and not hold elections in South Vietnam. From that moment on the U.S. assumed ownership of that cluster f*ck. Surprisingly, Ridgway wasn't the only former general from the Korean War telling presidents to get out. MacArthur told Kennedy basically the same thing. He told him wars of containment don't work and to not try it in Vietnam. But Kennedy had to try it in Vietnam because after the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis he couldn't be an overt tough guy south of his own border. But that is a discussion for another day. Always nice listening to Dr. Hanson. His books are okay but his talks totally rock.
Thank you very much!
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
This is beautiful