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Every book Victor Davis Hanson recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Victor Davis Hanson has recommended or discussed 8 books on podcasts, as of September 8, 2026.
- Victor Davis Hanson has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of September 8, 2026.
- Those books came up in 7 episodes, as of September 8, 2026.
- The 3 books Victor Davis Hanson has mentioned in the most episodes, as of September 8, 2026: Animal Farm, Hillbilly Elegy and MRI of the Brain and Spine 2.0.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Victor Davis Hanson aired on September 8, 2026.
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Victor Davis Hanson’s most mentioned books
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance
- MRI of the Brain and Spine 2.0 by Scott W. Atlas
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, Arthur Helps, Charles Francis Atkinson
- The War on Warriors by Pete Hegseth
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Victor Davis Hanson is a prominent commentator who frequently appears on political talk shows. During his appearances on The Megyn Kelly Show, Hanson discussed several notable books. He recounted a conversation with Charlie Kirk regarding Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West, noting Kirk's strong education. To defend the credentials of Scott W. Atlas, Hanson referenced his massive medical tome MRI of the Brain and Spine. He also mentioned Pete Hegseth's The War on Warriors during a discussion on Department of Defense reforms, and addressed J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy to defend Vance against criticism regarding his upbringing in Middletown, Ohio. Hanson noted that school districts have banned classic works like Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Mark Twain's The adventures of Tom Sawyer, contrasting this with conservative education policies. Additionally, he brought up Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery while talking about slavery curriculum standards, and used George Orwell's Animal Farm to compare the hypocrisy of modern woke elites to the behavior of the pigs in the novel.
Books Victor Davis Hanson recommended or discussed
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Animal Farm
Discussed“it's kind of like orwell talked about an animal farm it's it's if you're woke and you virtue signal”
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Hillbilly Elegy
Discussed“You read the book, he didn't quite say that. He was honest about their situation. He was from this group of people. Yes, Kentucky, but it's His book is really about his upbringing in Middletown, Ohio.”
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MRI of the Brain and Spine 2.0
Discussed“I said, do you know who these people are? Do you have any idea? They have authored hundreds, thousands of peer-reviewed articles. I said you know that if you are in neuroraiologist there's this huge tome you can't even lift it it's so big it's called MRI and the brain edited authored by Scott Atlas it was the definitive work”
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Discussed“They banned Tom Sawyer. They banned a lot of Mark Twain's work because of the N-word...”
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The Decline of the West
Discussed“He was reading and I said, what do you think about Spingler's Decline of the West? He was reading and I said, you are better educated than I see most undergraduates with BAs from good schools.”
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The War on Warriors
Discussed“if you read his book War the war on Warriors would probably do”
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Discussed“I mean, nobody on the right said, Let's ban To Kill a Mockingbird. There's a lot of school districts that banned that.”
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Up From Slavery
Discussed“I mean going way back to Booker T on Booker Washington when he wrote up from slavery that was his theme”
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Books Victor Davis Hanson wrote
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Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“That's basically the theme the theme of the book I wrote, The Counterrevolution.”
“I wrote a book mexifornia 20 years ago and it was happening then”
“and I mentioned that in the epilogue that they've repeatedly said they wanted to destroy Taiwanese civilization it's an aberration that it doesn't really exist and when I just mentioned that in the book The Chinese publisher gave me an ultimatum either take that out or we're going to cancel the Chinese translation”
“all during the 19 late 70s and 80s i kind of wrote a book about it called who killed homer with john heath”