Shout out to Victor Davis Hanson.
Pretty much a Fresno boy. Home to Free Republic!
Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American conservative commentator, classicist, and military historian. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Washington Times, and other media outlets.
He is a professor emeritus of Classics at California State University, Fresno, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and visiting professor at Hillsdale College. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and was a presidential appointee in 2007–2008 on the American Battle Monuments Commission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Davis_Hanson
Wow!
Love it!
VDH has a spectacularly good podcast of his own, with Sami Winc or Jack Fowler.
https://victorhanson.com/podcasts/
Also on Apple Podcasts, etc.