Victor Davis Hanson Announces Devastating Life News

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson announced Friday that he was undergoing a major medical operation after discovering a “serious” health issue.

Hanson made the announcement on his show, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” and stated that he was presented with a “serious problem” that was difficult to diagnose. He will undergo surgery on Tuesday and take a break from hosting his show during his recovery.

“I’m having a major operation, and I’ve got a major problem and I’m gonna have a major effort to solve it and that’s all I can do,” Hanson said. “And I finally ended up going to the best medical center that I think that I know, Stanford Med, and the people there are wonderful. It’ll work out one way or the other.”

Hanson said many viewers noticed that he sounded hoarse and unwell. After nine months of testing, medical professionals recently discovered his ailment after he underwent a biopsy, prompting Hanson to decide to go through with the operation.

“I don’t want to talk about my own problems, but I’ve had people call me and say, ‘You don’t look well, you’re hoarse, or you’re coughing.’ But it’s been a nine-month odyssey because the problem I had for a nonsmoker and nondrinker was a rare type and very hard to diagnose, so it’s no one’s fault other than my own perhaps for not realizing why I was not getting well,” Hanson said.

The show’s co-host, Jack Fowler, will continue to host the show during Hanson’s absence.

wishing him the very very best. he is fortunate that his Stanford and internet work do not require great physical strength....

and Stanford is one of the world’s best hospitals....
he will have his very best chance for recovery at Stanford

hoping, praying for a full recovery for VDH~!
he does a great deal of good... and he is frankly brilliant with an almost-infinite memory

Yes. VDH has become, over the last five or six years, one of my go-to voices on the Internet. I have read several of his books (The Second World Wars, The Dying Citizen, The Case for Trump, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, and his last one, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation) had a disproportionate impact on me, as it describes how cultural differences and miscommunication between various countries has, in the past, resulted in the complete annihilation of one of the combatants. It dealt with the following wars:

Thebes (335 BC) - Destroyed by Alexander the Great's Macedonians. The city-state was razed, its inhabitants killed or enslaved, as a brutal signal of Alexander's ruthlessness to deter rivals.
Carthage (146 BC) - Obliterated by the Romans in the Third Punic War. After centuries of rivalry, Rome salted the earth (symbolically or literally), killed or enslaved the population, and ended Carthaginian civilization entirely.
Constantinople (1453) - The Byzantine Empire's capital fell to the Ottoman Turks under Mehmed II. The city was sacked, Emperor Constantine XI killed, thousands slaughtered or enslaved, marking the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Tenochtitlán (1521) - The Aztec capital was conquered by Hernan Cortés and Spanish forces allied with indigenous rivals. Block-by-block fighting, combined with disease and superior weaponry, led to massive Aztec deaths and the destruction of their empire.

I just finished reading Comanches: The History of a People and it struck me the could have been the fifth war. For example, the Comanches for hundreds of years had been preying on their fellow Native Americans (The author referred to them as "Amerindians" which I found convenient) as well as being preyed on themselves by the Apaches and others they had blood feuds with. Their warfare, always going on, involved raiding, killing as many as possible, torturing, mutilating, and carrying off women and children. This was how they conducted warfare. It seemed as if, when the particular raiding event was done, it was treated as a separate incident from the whole, and life went on. When they began doing that to whites, particularly the Texans, they completely didn't understand why they would be pursued, sometimes even for years, by a man trying to get his wife and children back. It simply did not compute with them, and confused them. They just did not understand.

The whole time I was reading it, I was thinking of Hanson's book.

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