“The End of Everything,” with Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge

Victor makes it transparently clear why anyone in politics or in any kind of leadership role should have a very deep education in history. Everything that is happening in the world today has happened before. It's just a question of recognising the events and personalities.

The end does not comes when a society no longer has faith in its own religious beliefs and its own history but when it becomes so cynical it refuses to believe that their adversaries really do still believe in theirs

Fabulous to listen to. Who watches TV when there’s Interviews like this.

The biggest worry is the truth of “we are not the people we were”.

I don't think English speakers can get their head around this idea. A short conversation with anyone from Rhodesia would be most educational for this.

I went to the Hagia Sophia right before the election when it was still a museum. Only months after that trip it was a mosque again. It was stunning. The history is palpable and fascinatingly still ongoing.

Victor Davis Hanson is a national treasure. Too bad those in power don’t take to his counsel. It is our collective loss.

What a brilliant 👏 man and so goes Western society. Instead of a massive onslaught, we are being destoyed by slow strangulation within.

50.59: "People who have not been defeated or are accustomed to a position of superiority, culturally, militarily, they think that they are invulnerable for ever, and they are not aware of insidious decline." .... "We have been here a thousand years .... we can't fall" This reminds me, as a Brit, of the UK and of the deluded thinking of our government, indeed of almost all of our political class, that spending only 2% of GDP on defence is adequate, with an aspiration to spend 2.5% "when economic conditions allow" as they themselves put it.

Peter is always well prepared and does an excellent job of interviewing his guests. He deserves a lot of praise for his efforts.

Have tremendous respect for VDH. Have read him thoroughly. However, as a military strategist, I wish he'd offer a strategy for the majority of Americans who want to save our country! The problems are obvious. The solutions and how to implement them are the problem.

Peter, please carve out an extra hour next time you have VDH in the chair. I feel like we only scratched the surface on what he has to say.

Victor Davis Hanson - one of the best military historian nowadays. Thank you for this guest!

Brilliant, frightening, illuminating -- the cold shower of reality, thank you.

I was blessed to be taught a class by Dr Hanson. Brilliant!

What a humble, wise and brilliant man Victor is. Not enough of fellow citizens know of him. I've often thought what a privilege it would be to drop by the farm on our shared September 5th birthday and spend the afternoon engaged in conversation.

Amazing, if you want to wake up to the reality you live in, take Victor Davis Hanson. Choose to ignore it and ride your ignorant bliss into the end of everything.

This is my first time to hear Victor Davis Hanson and I am sorry to say that. What a treasure!! What an absolutely spot-on and timely interview and I hope and pray millions in the USA (the world actually) hear this and understand the full parallels of our time and this history lesson. We will learn from history...or repeat it. Thank you so much for this presentation. I am ordering the book pronto.

Thank you Peter and Victor. So good to listen to a non-strident, thoughtful conversation. I'm a fan from Chile.

This is an absolutely brilliant discussion that should be required viewing. Victor Davis Hanson is precisely the kind of thinker the US (and the world) needs more of, and all his books are remarkable. Let us pray that sanity, knowledge, and wisdom prevail. Cheers!