{"podcast":{"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words-7355079","podcast_index_feed_id":7355079,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/THEDAILYSIGNAL2043100319","website_url":"https://victorhanson.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/76d9b596-a634-11f0-ba14-1fb74ad41d10/image/978abf6bdc5008721d7a1ee874b0273c.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Jennifer Hayne","episode_count":301,"summary":"Victor Davis Hanson provides commentary on the latest political and cultural news with an eye to the historical significance of our time. He is an author, historian, classicist, and contemporary analyst. Join him to learn about the what's going on in your world.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T08:22:28.647439+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words-7355079"},"episode":{"title":"Founders’ Fire: From 1776 to Trump—Arthur Herman on Innovation, Wealth, and American Renewal  | VDH","slug":"founders-fire-from-1776-to-trump-arthur-herman-on-innovation-wealth-and-american-renewal-vdh","published_at":"2026-06-03T11:57:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words-7355079/founders-fire-from-1776-to-trump-arthur-herman-on-innovation-wealth-and-american-renewal-vdh","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words-7355079","url":"https://www.dailysignal.com/","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/THEDAILYSIGNAL5054982148.mp3","summary":"Victor Davis Hanson interviews historian Arthur Herman about his book \"Founders’ Fire: From 1776 to the Age of Trump,\" linking the Founding Fathers to later American business and technology founders and arguing they drive American exceptionalism through risk-taking and innovation. Herman describes a recurring cycle in which founder energy becomes institutionalized and bureaucratic until crises like the Civil War and World War II spark renewal, and he ties recent political turbulence and Trump’s rise to a similar governance crisis and a push to reinvent government around founding principles. They address attacks on wealth and “robber baron” narratives, the role of patents and the pursuit of happiness in enabling entrepreneurship, the outsider traits common among founders, and a shift from globalization to an innovation-first model amid regulation, censorship, and antitrust pressures. 👉Go to JoinADF.com/HANSON or Text HANSON to 83848 to help support Alliance Defending Freedom’s work!https://www.JoinADF.com/HANSON.com 👉For more videos like this, subscribe to The Daily Signal’s YouTube channel and enable notifications to be alerted the second a new video drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Victor Davis Hanson interviews historian Arthur Herman about his book \"Founders’ Fire: From 1776 to the Age of Trump,\" linking the Founding Fathers to lat…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3178,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words-7355079/episodes/founders-fire-from-1776-to-trump-arthur-herman-on-innovation-wealth-and-american-renewal-vdh/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words-7355079/founders-fire-from-1776-to-trump-arthur-herman-on-innovation-wealth-and-american-renewal-vdh.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}