O.M.G.! Victor Davis Hanson, aka, Dick Cheney’s favorite historian, is still around talking smack on YouTube. (1) In this instance with Niall Ferguson, one of the champion neocon propagandists. If they had included Tom Friedman - or, as Digby Parton called him, Little Tommy Friedman, age 6 - it would have been a trifecta of frivolity. But the third person here is Stephen Kotkin, who is a Hoover Institution guy along with Hanson and Ferguson, but he is actually a substantial historian who’s worth listening to.
Which is not to say I find the relentlessly hawkish view on China that Kotkin takes in the first half of the discussion. (He’s a Hoover Institute guy, after all.)
Trigger warning: listening to Victor Davis Hanson can induce a feeling that your skin is crawling.
Also, good Lord, I had forgotten what a hack VDH is!
Notes:
(1) Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson and Stephen Kotkin: Three Historians Debate The Era of Trump. Hoover Institution YouTube channel 10/14/2025. <https://youtu.be/v1Gm1OR2SPg?si=ULTKkp5XQosoVMV8> (Accessed: 2025-29-10).
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