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Submit Your Questions for VDH
Later this month we will be taping the first-ever audience Q & A episode of The Classicist podcast. Have a question that you’ve always wanted to put to Victor Davis Hanson? Ancient infantry tactics? Proper almond harvesting techniques? The future of the Republican Party? You’ll be hard-pressed to find a topic where he doesn’t have something insightful to say. Leave your question in the comments below and tune in later this month to see if your submission makes it to air.
Do you foresee the complete collapse of the West in the near future? And what would that collapse look liked, compared with the collapse of earlier civilizations?
I really got to come up with something good and obscure for this one.
Ok. I guess I will ask mine. What do you think of David Stahels thesis that the Nazis were defeated in there actual invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and broke themselves on the Russian Bear in the final days of that year, rather than were defeated at Stalingrad and bled white by Zhukhovs failed norther offensive as offered by Glantz.
I recently read that Democratic donors are to the left of the Democratic Party and Republican donors are to the left of the Republican Party. This seems true to me. A solid majority of voters want the borders controlled and immigration laws enforced, but President Trump faced significant opposition from his own party over building the wall. Is there a solution to this problem. The Chamber of Commerce appears to want cheap labor and does not care about the long-term implications for the country.
On a lighter side, he may enjoy this.
How much similarity do the French, Russian, or Venezuelan revolutions bear to the collapse of the Greek and Roman empires?
If American society collapsed, could China withstand the economic effects? Wouldn’t economies worldwide implode? Wouldn’t sudden disintegration of the world’s preeminent military power result in chaotic wars everywhere?
What question should I be asking you, Mr. Hanson?
Arrange the following movies based on actual events in order of how much worth there is in watching them, from most to least worthiness (“worthiness” as VDH defines it).
Alexander Nevsky
Kelly’s Heroes
The Great Escape
Waterloo
Patton
The Desert Fox
They Died With Their Boots On
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Zulu
Paths of Glory
Is there any tipping point in California that would make you move away?
It very much feels we are in the last days of the Roman Republic. the political class grows rich, while their paid thugs attack the plebs. Do you forsee a series of Rome style civil wars?
Another dry winter in the northern Sierra Nevada’s. I assume it was the same in the south. Will farmers in the central valley have to pump from the aquafer? Of the water used to irrigate almond orchards, what percent of it returns to the aquafer and rivers?
Assuming that many of Prof. Hanson’s admirers here came to know him in the last six or seven years, I would like to take this moment to point them to a profound essay of his from 2012: “Remembering the Dead, From Selma.” (That’s Selma, Calif.) It is highly personal in that it depicts his family life as a youngster and his first steps toward becoming a published writer, a path very nearly thwarted. I like to read this about once a year, if only for the sheer uplift it inspires. (I hope I inserted the link properly.)
http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/remembering-the-dead-from-selma/