Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

 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

Education Commentary

How Were the Universities Lost?

Victor Davis Hanson | December 08, 2023

After Oct. 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses. Americans knew previously they were intolerant, left wing, and… Read More

International Commentary

The Unhinged Among Us

Victor Davis Hanson | December 01, 2023

Oct. 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation. During peace and holiday, invading Hamas gunmen murdered, tortured, mass-raped, decapitated, and mutilated some… Read More

 InternationalCommentary

Can Europe Become Western Again?

Victor Davis Hanson | November 27, 2023

For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large. Ostensibly… Read More

International Commentary

When Has War Ever Been ‘Proportional’?

Victor Davis Hanson | November 17, 2023

Proportionality in war is a synonym for lethal stalemate, if not defeat. When two sides go at it with roughly equal forces, weapons, and strategies,… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Israel-Hamas War Keeps Getting Sicker

Victor Davis Hanson | November 03, 2023

There is something surreal, even sick about the current Israel-Hamas war. Throughout European and American cities and campuses, tens of thousands of Middle East immigrants… Read More

  SecurityCommentary

Unassimilated, Warring Tribes a Prescription for Collective Suicide

Victor Davis Hanson | October 30, 2023

Few Romans in the late decades of their fifth-century A.D. empire celebrated their newfound “diversity” of marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals. These tribes… Read More

 InternationalCommentary

Does Iran Realize Its Own Growing Danger?

Victor Davis Hanson | October 20, 2023

Iran understandably believes it is riding quite high. Biden put pro-Iranian envoy Robert Malley—now under FBI investigation—in charge of begging Iran to restart the disastrous… Read More

 SecurityCommentary

Hamas, Biden, and Amoral Clarity

Victor Davis Hanson | October 13, 2023

One unexpected blowback from the medieval Hamas’ barbaric murdering of hundreds of Israeli civilians is the revelation of current global amorality. More than 20 identity… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

How the Left Lies to Our Faces, Seemingly Without Consequence

Victor Davis Hanson | October 06, 2023

One common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and… Read More

InternationalCommentary

The Ukrainian Gordian Knot

Victor Davis Hanson | September 29, 2023

Most Americans understandably favor the Ukrainian resistance against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s naked 2022 aggression. Yet for Ukraine to break the current deadlock—our generation’s Verdun,… Read More

 SecurityCommentary

Here’s How Biden Admin Destroyed Our Immigration Law

Victor Davis Hanson | September 22, 2023

Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 million and 8 million illegal entries across the now-nonexistent southern border of the U.S. The more… Read More

 Commentary

Post-Postmodern America, Meet Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Victor Davis Hanson | September 15, 2023

When the progressive woke revolution took over traditional America, matters soon reached the level of the ridiculous. Take the following examples of woke craziness and… Read More

  LawCommentary

What Game Is Hunter Biden Playing?

Victor Davis Hanson | September 08, 2023

What shameless act or felonious activity was not evidenced on Hunter Biden’s laptop? Racist attitudes toward Asians? Soliciting prostitution? Felonious use of drugs? Photographed nudity… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

From One Unapologetic Media Hoax to the Next

Victor Davis Hanson | September 05, 2023

Joe Biden lied repeatedly when he claimed he knew nothing of his son Hunter’s influence-peddling businesses. The president further prevaricated that he had no involvement… Read More

LawCommentary

The Biden Clan’s Con Is Coming to an End

Victor Davis Hanson | August 24, 2023

Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that President Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking… Read More

 SecurityCommentary

Fentanyl, Viruses, Spying: Why Do We Let China Get Away With Attacks on America?

Victor Davis Hanson | August 18, 2023

Imagine if the United States treated China in the same way it does us. What if American companies simply ignored Chinese copyrights and patents and… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?

Victor Davis Hanson | August 14, 2023

Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed. A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the… Read More

LawPoliticsCommentary

2 Sets of Laws for 2 Americas

Victor Davis Hanson | August 04, 2023

Two sets of laws now operate in an increasingly unrecognizable America. Consider the matter of unlawfully removing and storing classified papers. Donald Trump may go… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Biden Family Caricatures

Victor Davis Hanson | July 21, 2023

The Biden first family seems determined to confirm every stereotype of their antisocial behavior—to the point of dysfunctionality. During the 2020 campaign, at least eight… Read More

SocietyCommentary

10 Reasons Why Affirmative Action Died

Victor Davis Hanson | July 14, 2023

The end of affirmative action was inevitable. The only surprise in the Supreme Court’s recent decision was that such intentions gone terribly wrong lasted so… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

This Scandal Will Lead to the Bidens’ Convictions for Serious Felonies

Victor Davis Hanson | July 05, 2023

President Joe Biden, the Biden grifting conglomerate, the Department of Justice, and the FBI—under its fourth consecutive weaponized director—are in danger of subverting the American… Read More

SocietyCommentary

America Wakes Up to Woke

Victor Davis Hanson | June 22, 2023

Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the coalition of the oppressed. Those purportedly victimized by traditional America would find “intersectional” solidarity in their… Read More