Victor Davis Hanson joins Peter Robinson to discuss the American founding and its critics. Drawing on ancient Greece and Rome, the Magna Carta, the French Revolution, the American Civil War, Woodrow Wilson’s administrative state, and the Trump era, Hanson argues that the genius of the American system lies in its difficult but durable structure: checks and balances, ordered liberty, and a Constitution built for flawed human beings.
Recorded on May 12, 2026.