Megyn Kelly Interview with Victor Davis Hanson - Promised Transcript
As promised in Tuesday’s Terrific Absurdities, here is a transcript of the initial portion of Megyn Kelly’s interview with Victor Davis Hanson. Enjoy!
Megyn Kelley: Joining us today, Victor Davis Hanson. He is absolutely brilliant. I'm so glad to have him with me for the full show today. And he's also the author of a brand new book that you must go by and read. It's called The End of Everything How Wars Descend Into Annihilation. And Victor is an expert on warfare. He's been writing about it and teaching about it for a long, long time now. The book is out tomorrow, but it's available for preorder right now. The end of everything. It's rising up the Amazon charts at this moment. Let's make it number one that are really irritate the people at Stanford. Or he's at the Hoover Institution. Victor, welcome back to the show.
Victor Davis Hanson: Thank you for having me, Megan.
Megyn Kelley: So we'll get to the book. But there are a lot of lessons in these, you know, ancient warfare stories for modern day America. And it's almost as if the outcome of our current day fights has been foretold and could certainly be predicted based on some of the battles that you write about that may include names half the people don't know as a daily, you know, on a daily basis. But the lessons are all there. Let's just kick it off with that. What do you think people will get out of the book when it comes to understanding modern day America?
Victor Davis Hanson: Well, I, I picked ancient Thebes, the end of Carthage, the capture of Constantinople, the destruction of Christendom in Asia minor, and then the fall of the Aztecs. And they all were very similar. All of these targeted places and empires and cities thought they were still robust, even though by any outside measure they were in decline.