Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of "The Victor Davis Hanson Show." His website, The Blade of Perseus, features columns, lectures, and exclusive content for subscribers. Contact him at [email protected].
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Former President Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled “classified” at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did President Joe Biden at… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Left-wing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recently praised a visiting President Joe Biden: “Just imagine: There are 40 million Mexicans in the United States…. Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Left has gone mad over former President Donald Trump—past, present, and future. The current Democratic Party and NeverTrump “conservatives” assumed that Trump was and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Did someone or something seize control of the United States? What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon—perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed from the… Read More
EducationCommentary
In a famous exchange in the “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. He properly grew up on the Stanford campus, where his parents were well-known… Read More
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Team Trump sometimes has compared former President Donald Trump’s current quest for a non-sequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in… Read More
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Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith. But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Who or what was responsible for the Republican nationwide collapse in the midterms? After all, pundits, politicos, and pollsters all predicted a “red tsunami.” Moreover,… Read More
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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
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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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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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
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
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 ecstatic that President Joe Biden has given them everything they wanted. The left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old… Read More
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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
“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
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
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
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
