Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

  PoliticsCommentary

Coup Upon Coup Upon Coup

Victor Davis Hanson | July 25, 2024

In March 2020, all the major Democratic primary candidates abruptly, mysteriously, and in near unison withdrew from the presidential race, ceding the nomination to Joe… Read More

 Commentary

Why Doesn’t the Left Want Voters to Decide Election?

Victor Davis Hanson | July 19, 2024

When Donald Trump seemed to have a lock on the 2016 Republican primary, the Democratic Party concluded that the people could not be counted on… Read More

 PoliticsCommentary

Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union

Victor Davis Hanson | July 12, 2024

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as general secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank,… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Ukraine and the Winter War, 1939-1940

Victor Davis Hanson | July 08, 2024

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Stop the Ukrainian Meat Grinder?

Victor Davis Hanson | June 28, 2024

Nearly eleven months ago, in August 2023, The New York Times reported that U.S. officials had estimated that some 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians had been… Read More

 SocietyCommentary

How California’s Paradise Became Our Purgatory

Victor Davis Hanson | June 24, 2024

California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed… Read More

 PoliticsCommentary

The West Is Sick of the New Woke Jihadism

Victor Davis Hanson | June 14, 2024

What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting? What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do With the Prosecutions of Trump

Victor Davis Hanson | June 07, 2024

The five criminal and civil prosecutions of former President Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Joe Biden and Democrat operatives had… Read More

  SecurityCommentary

Loose Talk About the End of Everything

Victor Davis Hanson | May 24, 2024

After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an odd, one-sentence communique: “There… Read More

International Commentary

10 Most Common Pro-Hamas Lies About Israel

Victor Davis Hanson | May 10, 2024

Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protesters. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion from the Biden administration after Hamas’ Oct. 7… Read More

EducationCommentary

Can the Current Universities Be Saved? Should They Be?

Victor Davis Hanson | May 03, 2024

Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and… Read More

International Commentary

How Israel May Curb Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

Victor Davis Hanson | April 26, 2024

Details of Israel’s recent limited retaliatory strike against Iran‘s antiaircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions. Israel’s… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Are Iran’s 9 Lives Nearing an End?

Victor Davis Hanson | April 19, 2024

The theocracy of Iran has been the world’s arch-embassy attacker over the last half-century. So Iran has zero credibility in crying foul over Israel’s April… Read More

SocietyCommentary

DEI Cronyism and Woke Grifters

Victor Davis Hanson | April 12, 2024

When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows. Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of… Read More

International Commentary

IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES?: Public Opinion Shifts on Ukraine-Russia, Israel-Hamas Wars

Victor Davis Hanson | April 05, 2024

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Americans overwhelmingly supported Ukraine—as they did with Israel after Oct. 7. No wonder: Ukraine was surprise-attacked by Russia, and Israel was… Read More

International Commentary

Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies

Victor Davis Hanson | April 02, 2024

‘Occupied Gaza’ Prior to Oct. 7, there were roughly 2 million Arab citizens of Israel but no Jewish citizens in the Gaza Strip. Gazans in… Read More

 SecurityCommentary

How Illegal Immigration Could Change American Leftists

Victor Davis Hanson | March 22, 2024

Some 8 million to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since President Joe Biden took… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Here’s What Biden’s Apology to the Illegal Who Allegedly Killed Laken Riley Reveals About Our Elites

Victor Davis Hanson | March 15, 2024

The horrific murder of Laken Riley by repeated felony offender and illegal alien Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, was preventable—had federal immigration laws simply… Read More

InternationalCommentary

The Ukrainian Verdun

Victor Davis Hanson | March 08, 2024

Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front of… Read More

SocietyCommentary

American Paralysis and Decline

Victor Davis Hanson | March 01, 2024

“We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long decline of Roman national… Read More

  LawCommentary

Blue Laws for Red Citizens

Victor Davis Hanson | February 23, 2024

One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from former President Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed… Read More

 PoliticsCommentary

Elites’ Strange Disconnect Between Israel and Ukraine

Victor Davis Hanson | February 16, 2024

The Ukrainian and Israeli wars are similar and yet also different conflicts—but in more ways than we can imagine. Ukraine was invaded by a huge… Read More

 SecurityCommentary

The Absurd Democrat Border Con

Victor Davis Hanson | February 09, 2024

In 2021, President Joe Biden opened wide an inherited, secure southern border that had finally stopped mass illegal immigration. When he overturned former President Donald… Read More

 SecurityCommentary

How to Ensure a Big, Ugly War With Iran

Victor Davis Hanson | February 02, 2024

Iran-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some 170 times. Ostensibly, these terrorist groups claim they are hitting U.S…. Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Hysterical Style in American Politics

Victor Davis Hanson | January 19, 2024

The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long-standing right-wing “paranoid style”… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Democrats Reveal Contempt for Democracy With ‘Any Means Necessary’ Attacks on Trump

Victor Davis Hanson | January 12, 2024

When faced with the possible return of former President Donald Trump, the current agenda of the Democratic Party is summed up simply as “We had… Read More

Education Commentary

Harvard—Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire

Victor Davis Hanson | January 05, 2024

Harvard may assume the forced resignation of its president, Claudine Gay, has finally ended its monthlong scandal over her tenure. Gay stepped down, remember, amid… Read More

SocietyCommentary

3 Cases Where US Is on Razor’s Edge

Victor Davis Hanson | January 02, 2024

As the new year begins, we are on the razor’s edge of many things that soon may blow up. Americans are far beyond President Joe… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Biden vs. Trump: 5 Ways the Left Is Way Beyond Double Standards

Victor Davis Hanson | December 21, 2023

The abject narcissism of the insular Left is startling. They apparently believe the American public is amnesiac enough to forget what leftists once did, now… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The New Religion of the Left: Nihilism

Victor Davis Hanson | December 14, 2023

Nihilism is the religion of the Left. Anarchy is now at the core of the new Democratic Party. If the Left wished radically to alter… Read More