Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

Alex Soros and Joe Biden both hold the Medal of Freedom while they pose for a photo.

What Biden Gets Wrong About ‘Oligarchs’

Victor Davis Hanson | January 21, 2025

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Politics Commentary

The Absurd Outrage Directed at Trump

Victor Davis Hanson | January 20, 2025

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International Commentary

Joe Biden stands and looks to his left during a press conference.

Biden Responsible for Single Greatest Disaster in Foreign Policy in a Century

Victor Davis Hanson | January 20, 2025

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PoliticsCommentary

Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy ‘Achievements’

Victor Davis Hanson | January 16, 2025

Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America’s stature abroad. In his… Read More

Commentary

Pete Hegseth raises his arms and talks in an animated fashion during a Senate hearing

Screaming and Yelling: My Takeaway From Democrats’ Behavior During the Hegseth, Bondi Confirmation Hearings

Victor Davis Hanson | January 16, 2025

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Politics Commentary

Donald Trump in a blue suit speaks in front of an American flag

Where Did MAGA Come From?

Victor Davis Hanson | January 15, 2025

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Politics Commentary

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (right) and Greenland Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egede hold a joint press conference at her office in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Trump’s ‘Art of the Troll’ on Canada, Greenland, ‘Gulf of America,’ Panama Canal

Victor Davis Hanson | January 14, 2025

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Society Commentary

President Joe Biden holds a teleconference on the federal response to the spread of wildfires in the Los Angeles area with three stakeholders.

THE TYRANNY OF TABOOS: Causes of LA Wildfires Can’t Be Spoken

Victor Davis Hanson | January 13, 2025

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Commentary

Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona next to a very high fence

Deport Millions, Finish the Wall, Tax Remittances, and End Birthright Citizenship

Victor Davis Hanson | January 10, 2025

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InternationalCommentary

Ambulance crews ferry the injured on stretchers away after a terrorist attack on Dec. 20 in Magdeburg, Germany.

America and Europe Can Hang Together—or Hang Separately

Victor Davis Hanson | January 10, 2025

Consider these European and American binaries. On Dec. 20, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in Magdeburg, Germany. He… Read More

Security Commentary

A fireman douses flames of the California inferno as best he can with a hose in California.

California Inferno Was ‘Preventable.’ Blame Malfeasance of Newsom, Bass for Catastrophe.

Victor Davis Hanson | January 09, 2025

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Security Commentary

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, French President Emmanuel Macron, and President-elect Donald Trump outside the French presidential palace

Selective Force, Strategic Restraint: Unpacking Trump’s Jacksonian Foreign Policy

Victor Davis Hanson | January 08, 2025

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SocietyCommentary

German tanks in formation roll down a street during World War II.

Germany’s New Morgenthau Plan

Victor Davis Hanson | January 03, 2025

Less than a year before the end of World War II, then-U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The National Nightmare Is Ending

Victor Davis Hanson | December 31, 2024

Après Biden, “L’audace, l’audace, encore l’audace, toujours l’audace!” To paraphrase mixed French 18th-century memorable quotations: After Biden, follows not the deluge, but now daring, and… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Donald Trump, in a suit, pumps his fist in the air as blood drips down his face after the assassination attempt in Butler, PA.

What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election?

Victor Davis Hanson | December 26, 2024

In the weeks before his 2016 Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35% and 40%. He would average only about 41% approval over… Read More

SecurityCommentary

Blame Biden for Drone Hysteria

Victor Davis Hanson | December 20, 2024

New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the airspace of… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Former President Barack Obama, in a blue shirt but no jacket or tie, addresses a campaign rally for Vice President Kamala Harris on Oct. 10 in Pittsburgh.

The Stench of BO: Barack Obama’s Mystique a Casualty of the Election

Victor Davis Hanson | December 13, 2024

Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Donald Trump is looking out to his audience with a smug expression on his face. His left hand is holding the podium.

Why the Left Is Going Insane Over Trump’s Cabinet Nominees

Victor Davis Hanson | December 06, 2024

Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the Left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Many of Trump’s picks… Read More

EducationCommentary

Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality

Victor Davis Hanson | November 30, 2024

Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36% of Americans polled either… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Donald Trump looking ahead with a smirk on his face, sitting next to Elon Musk.

The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity

Victor Davis Hanson | November 22, 2024

We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after President Donald Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016. The orthodox and the supposed scripted… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Restoring Deterrence Will Prevent Endless Wars

Victor Davis Hanson | November 15, 2024

On Jan. 3, 2020, the Trump administration conducted a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport, killing Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani had a long… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Kamala Harris in a dark purple suit, glancing to the side with a troubled expression on her face.

Kamala Harris Was Always Doomed

Victor Davis Hanson | November 08, 2024

The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us. The Republicans had made massive gains in voter registration… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney smiling and greeting supporters at an event

Our Election’s Utter Losers and Winners

Victor Davis Hanson | November 06, 2024

Deservedly, the 2024 Election’s Losers The polls—with the exception once again of AltasIntel, Trafalgar, and Rasmussen—were off, and way off in the Senate races. The… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Harris Is Ending Her Campaign With Lies and Smears

Victor Davis Hanson | November 01, 2024

In the last two weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has been trying to revive her stagnant campaign by smearing former President Donald Trump as being… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - JULY 13: Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at the Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote Presidential Town Hall at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on July 13, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harris continues campaigning ahead of the presidential election as Democrats face doubts about President Biden's fitness in his run for re-election against former President Donald Trump. (Photo by Drew Hallowell/Getty Images)

Why Kamala Struggles to Be Credible

Victor Davis Hanson | October 25, 2024

As Vice President Kamala Harris slips in the polls, the Democratic National Committee/Harris campaign/mainstream media fusion talking points become even more absurd. Claiming that JD… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Team Harris’ Campaign of Condescension Draws Pushback

Victor Davis Hanson | October 21, 2024

The election is finally shaping up to be not only liberal Democrat Kamala Harris versus conservative Republican Donald Trump. Instead, it has become a larger… Read More

International Commentary

Try a Little Honesty About Israel

Victor Davis Hanson | October 11, 2024

Both the Harris-Walz presidential ticket and now lame-duck President Joe Biden keep insisting that they are Israel’s best friend. A snarly Biden recently bragged at… Read More

International Commentary

Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu on stage In an embrace with American and Israeli flags behind them

How to Blow Up the Middle East War in 5 Easy Steps

Victor Davis Hanson | October 04, 2024

When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war. So quiet was the inheritance… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Political ‘October Surprises’ Happening Earlier as ‘September Shocks’

Victor Davis Hanson | September 27, 2024

An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Harris Campaign Is Pure Run-Out-the-Clock Cynicism

Victor Davis Hanson | September 20, 2024

Cynically running out the clock has been the overarching principle of the entire abbreviated 105-day presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris—ever since President Joe… Read More