Victor Davis Hanson’s First Episode Back After Cancer Surgery

Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson has returned for his first episode of his show “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” in over a month, sharing more details about his recent lung cancer surgeries.

Watch Victor Davis Hanson discuss, more in depth, the Minnesota protests and the Left’s abrupt embrace of states’ rights here.

By Victor Davis Hanson

“I’ve been off for a while, as you may have noticed. I had a mucinous adenoma carcinoma. That’s kind of a long name for a very rare nonsmokers’ type of lung cancer,” shared Hanson.

Hanson says he’s still recovering, trying to get his blood volume back up, but hopes to return to the show “slowly and periodically” during his recovery.

Hanson might still be recovering from the two back-to-back surgeries, but he couldn’t leave his first show of 2026 there. He continues the shorter episode by discussing the immigration protests taking place in Minnesota.

“I want to talk through very quickly today about what’s going on in Minnesota,” said Hanson. “I know we’ve got people having talked to death the insurrectionary nature of [Gov.] Tim Walz, and, of course, Mayor [Jacob] Frey and [Keith] Ellison, the [Minnesota] attorney general.

“But what I’m really disturbed about is the utter hypocrisy that we’re seeing with this street insurrectionary movement,” he continues.

Hanson explains the hypocrisy of the Left as they treated protesters on Jan. 6 like criminals while making Renée Good and Alex Pretti martyrs.

“Take masks, for example, “Hanson continued. “We were told that masks were absolutely essential, not just for health reasons, but sometimes demonstrators wore them,” he said.

“The reason we were told Antifa wears them is because they didn’t want to have their identities put out into the popular discourse. … They don’t offer any such latitude for [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] officers,” Hanson explained.

“All of a sudden, these Democrats are reverting to their original form, and we should remember original because the neo-Confederate movement was a Democratic project,” concluded Hanson.

Watch Victor Davis Hanson discuss, more in depth, the Minnesota protests and the Left’s abrupt embrace of states’ rights here.

First published in The Daily Signal