Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

Commentary

With microphones around him, Donald Trump sits at his desk and talks to reporters.

Trump’s Tariff Diplomacy Is Working

Victor Davis Hanson | February 07, 2025

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Commentary

A man and a woman hold up signs saying that USAID must be saved while standing in front of a building.

Trump Has Become 21st-Century George Patton

Victor Davis Hanson | February 05, 2025

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Politics Commentary

An aircraft approaches an air traffic control tower as it comes in for a landing at sunset.

When the FAA and DEI Don’t Mix

Victor Davis Hanson | February 04, 2025

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Politics Commentary

Donald Trump points with his right hand during a press conference while standing at the podium.

Even Never Trumpers Are Warming Up to The Donald

Victor Davis Hanson | February 03, 2025

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Education Commentary

Marc Andreessen stands next to his wife with his hands by his side at an awards ceremony.

Silicon Valley Is Sick and Tired of Its Woke Employees

Victor Davis Hanson | February 02, 2025

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Politics Commentary

Anthony Fauci sits at a table with a microphone in front of him as he testifies.

Death Threats Come With the Job of a Public Figure

Victor Davis Hanson | January 31, 2025

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Politics Commentary

Kash Patel stands with his right hand raised in a fist.

It Makes Sense That the Left Fears Kash Patel

Victor Davis Hanson | January 29, 2025

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Politics Commentary

Pete Hegseth raises his right hand and puts his left hand on the Bible.

The Harder the Change, the Tougher the Vote

Victor Davis Hanson | January 29, 2025

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Donald Trump stands at a podium with his right hand raised in a fist.

The Left’s Sin Is of Omission and Lost Opportunity

Victor Davis Hanson | January 26, 2025

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Politics Commentary

An anti-Trump fanatic holds a sign equating Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in front of the Supreme Court.

The Unhinged, Petty, and Vindictive Left

Victor Davis Hanson | January 24, 2025

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Economy Commentary

Klaus Schwab stands in front of a World Economic Forum banner.

Why Trump Threatens Davos

Victor Davis Hanson | January 23, 2025

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Politics Commentary

Donald Trump stands at a podium with his arms outstretched.

America Awakes From Its Coma

Victor Davis Hanson | January 22, 2025

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Politics Commentary

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

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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