Victor Davis Hanson
Classicist, military historian, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; author of The Counterrevolution
Victor Davis Hanson (Classicist, military historian, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; author of The Counterrevolution) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Diversity, equity, and inclusion, Prosecutions of Donald Trump, Killing of Austin Metcalf.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Hanson argues that racial grievance ideology is imposed from the top down by media and educators rather than arising from the grassroots.
“This is a top-down media, academics, professors, K-12, who create these ideologies”
The Megyn Kelly Show: All the LIES in Karmelo Anthony Case From “The View,” with VDH, and Former FBI Special Agent Says She's 75% Confident There Will Be Arrest in Guthrie Case | Ep. 1345 (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 32:50
Hanson says professors privately admit to inflating grades out of fear of being statistically accused of racism.
“I don't want to be statistically accused of being a racist when particular people don't get the grade that they like”
The Megyn Kelly Show: All the LIES in Karmelo Anthony Case From “The View,” with VDH, and Former FBI Special Agent Says She's 75% Confident There Will Be Arrest in Guthrie Case | Ep. 1345 (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 27:33
Hanson says he does not expect the country to return to the racial politics of the years after George Floyd's death.
“I don't think we're going to go back to that aberration after George Floyd for four or five years. I just don't think it's going to happen”
The Megyn Kelly Show: All the LIES in Karmelo Anthony Case From “The View,” with VDH, and Former FBI Special Agent Says She's 75% Confident There Will Be Arrest in Guthrie Case | Ep. 1345 (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 20:48
Prosecutions of Donald Trump
Hanson argues that state and federal prosecutions of Trump were coordinated to destroy a political opponent.
“one of the most egregious examples of coordinating state, local, county, federal prosecutors to destroy a political opponent”
The Megyn Kelly Show: All the LIES in Karmelo Anthony Case From “The View,” with VDH, and Former FBI Special Agent Says She's 75% Confident There Will Be Arrest in Guthrie Case | Ep. 1345 (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 1:15:14
Other remarks
Hanson argues that Democrats' popularity is falling because of the candidates they are nominating.
“their popularity is going down, down, down, down, the Democrats. And it's because of the candidates that they are nominating”
The Megyn Kelly Show: All the LIES in Karmelo Anthony Case From “The View,” with VDH, and Former FBI Special Agent Says She's 75% Confident There Will Be Arrest in Guthrie Case | Ep. 1345 (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 25:11
Killing of Austin Metcalf
Hanson argues that any weight difference between Anthony and Metcalf is irrelevant when the provocation was a gentle push.
“the idea that there was a weight disparity is not really applicable when you push somebody”
The Megyn Kelly Show: All the LIES in Karmelo Anthony Case From “The View,” with VDH, and Former FBI Special Agent Says She's 75% Confident There Will Be Arrest in Guthrie Case | Ep. 1345 (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 17:03
Appearances
All the LIES in Karmelo Anthony Case From “The View,” with VDH, and Former FBI Special Agent Says She's 75% Confident There Will Be Arrest in Guthrie Case | Ep. 1345The Megyn Kelly Show · Jun 23, 2026 · 2 h 31 min
Megyn Kelly, Victor Davis Hanson, and ex-FBI agents Maureen O'Connell and James Hamilton discuss the Karmelo Anthony appeal, Bill Ayers, Bryon Noem, and the Nancy Guthrie ransom notes.
Often appears with
- Megyn Kelly · 1 shared episode
- Maureen O'Connell · 1 shared episode
- James Hamilton · 1 shared episode