Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

PoliticsCommentary

Tuesday Takeaways

Victor Davis Hanson | November 11, 2022

What, if anything, did the midterms tell us about the country—other than underwhelming Republicans could still take the House and Senate? During the COVID-19 lockdowns,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Who Denies Election Results?

Victor Davis Hanson | October 20, 2022

A Democratic myth has arisen that former President Donald Trump’s denial of the accuracy of the 2020 vote was “unprecedented.” Unfortunately, the history of U.S…. Read More

EnergyCommentary

Biden Plays the Old Ugly American

Victor Davis Hanson | October 14, 2022

The Left used to accuse imperialist, resource-hungry Yanquis in Washington of cutting selfish deals with illiberal dictatorships in Latin America to grab their natural resources…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization

Victor Davis Hanson | October 03, 2022

Civilization is fragile. It hinges on ensuring the stuff of life. To be able to eat, to move about, to have shelter, to be free… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Martha’s Meltdown Model

Victor Davis Hanson | September 23, 2022

Martha’s Vineyard has been all over the news. The tony resort community so loves aiding and comforting the undocumented immigrants who were flown in from… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Ukraine: With a Whimper or a Bang?

Victor Davis Hanson | September 15, 2022

Russia started the war with Ukraine in late February with a shock-and-awe effort to grab Kyiv. It failed both to decapitate the government and absorb… Read More

InternationalCommentary

The World Wants No Part of Woke, but It’s Glad We Do

Victor Davis Hanson | September 09, 2022

The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgender females. Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40… Read More

Health CareCommentary

The Mysteries of Long COVID-19

Victor Davis Hanson | September 02, 2022

When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. By far most survived COVID-19. But hundreds of thousands… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

There Should Be a Republican Tsunami This Fall. But Will It Happen?

Victor Davis Hanson | August 26, 2022

The late spring scenario of a massive GOP win—in historic proportions analogous to 1938, 1994, or 2010—is said now to be “iffy.” The left boasts… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

‘Civil War’ Porn

Victor Davis Hanson | August 18, 2022

As President Joe Biden’s polls stagnate and the midterms approach, we are now serially treated to yet another progressive melodrama about the dangers of a… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The FBI Has Become Dangerous to Americans

Victor Davis Hanson | August 12, 2022

The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Take the FBI’s… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

No Wonder We Lost Trust in the Expert Class

Victor Davis Hanson | August 05, 2022

For years, European policymakers had assured the world that the relatively rapid “transition” to “green” energy was the world’s preordained future—regardless of the costs. Accordingly,… Read More

SecurityCommentary

The Ukrainian Verdun

Victor Davis Hanson | July 29, 2022

Five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the war is now reduced to one of attrition. The current dirty, grinding slog is fought mostly with artillery… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Left Should Be Happy With Biden

Victor Davis Hanson | July 22, 2022

The left should be ecstatic that President Joe Biden has given them everything they wanted. The left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Gavin Newsom’s Weird Idea of ‘Freedom’

Victor Davis Hanson | July 15, 2022

In a run-up to what is likely to be a 2024 presidential bid, California Gov. Gavin Newsom hit upon the bizarre idea of boasting in… Read More

SocietyCommentary

What Explains the Disappearing American?

Victor Davis Hanson | July 07, 2022

“Help wanted” and “Now hiring” signs are everywhere. Flights, construction projects, and health care services are delayed—or unavailable—due to labor shortages. Hourly and monthly wages… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Crybaby Leftist Mind

Victor Davis Hanson | June 30, 2022

Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority. Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify almost any means necessary to achieve them. Among the elite, the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

What the Jan. 6 Committee Might Have Been

Victor Davis Hanson | June 17, 2022

Congress should investigate fully the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol—and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites. But unfortunately, it never will. Why not?… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Subordinate Citizen

Victor Davis Hanson | June 10, 2022

I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

A Cabinency of Dunces

Victor Davis Hanson | May 26, 2022

As the nation sinks inexplicably into self-created crisis after crisis, debate rages whether President Joe Biden is incompetent, mean-spirited, or an ideologue who feels the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Is Biden’s ‘Success’ Our Mess?

Victor Davis Hanson | May 20, 2022

If an administration deliberately wished to cause havoc on the border, to ensure fuel was nearly unaffordable, to create a crime wave, to spark 1970s… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Last Days of the Republic: Leftist Policies Could Push America to Its Breaking Point

Victor Davis Hanson | May 13, 2022

Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable. Until the Ukrainian… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Losing the People? Then Change the Rules

Victor Davis Hanson | May 05, 2022

Court-packing—the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes—used to be a dirty word in the history of American jurisprudence…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

Tearing Down the Silicon Valley Wall

Victor Davis Hanson | April 28, 2022

Elon Musk has finally managed to buy Twitter. And the moment he did, the enraged left flipped out. Abruptly, leftists began trashing their favorite electronic… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

How America Became La La Land

Victor Davis Hanson | April 25, 2022

America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s “1984,” and partly the poet Homer’s land of… Read More

InternationalCommentary

History Should Be Our Guide in Ukraine

Victor Davis Hanson | March 31, 2022

There are several historical referents we should keep in mind about the Ukraine war. First, no-fly zones: Lots of Westerners are calling for NATO aircraft… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Real ‘Reset’ Is Coming

Victor Davis Hanson | March 24, 2022

President Joe Biden believes the Ukraine war will mark the start of a “new world order.” In the middle of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Klaus… Read More

 InternationalCommentary

10 Realities of Ukraine

Victor Davis Hanson | March 17, 2022

1. Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence bolster… Read More

EnergyCommentary

The Green Immoralists

Victor Davis Hanson | March 10, 2022

Thousands are dying from Russian missiles and bombs in the suburbs of Ukraine. In response, the Biden administration’s climate change envoy, multimillionaire and private jet-owning… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Why Is Left Suddenly Worried About ‘End of Democracy’?

Victor Davis Hanson | February 24, 2022

What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on… Read More