Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

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

PoliticsCommentary

Hillary Clinton’s Greatest Masterpiece

Victor Davis Hanson | February 17, 2022

Hillary Clinton’s never-ending shenanigans in 2015 to 2016 could be summarized as an attempted slow-motion coup. Four years of national hysteria, a divided nation, and… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Why Ideology Is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization

Victor Davis Hanson | February 11, 2022

What ultimately destroyed the evil empires of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were bankrupt dogmas. Crackpot ideology destroyed free expression. It ruined meritocracy and ensured… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Russian Appeasement Was a Left-Wing Monopoly

Victor Davis Hanson | February 04, 2022

One way of understanding the 2009-2014 Obama administration policy of “reset” with Vladimir Putin’s Russia is to recall two iconic incidents. The first was the… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Why Putin Hasn’t Been Deterred

Victor Davis Hanson | January 27, 2022

Americans want an autonomous Ukraine to survive. They hope the West can stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strangulation of both Ukraine and NATO. Yet Americans… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse?

Victor Davis Hanson | January 20, 2022

In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a “systems collapse.” The term describes the sudden inability of once prosperous populations to… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Politicizing COVID-19 From the Start

Victor Davis Hanson | January 13, 2022

From the moment COVID-19 appeared, the pandemic became inseparable from politics. Political frenzy was inevitable since the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have escaped from a level-4… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?

Victor Davis Hanson | January 06, 2022

Recently, Democrats have been despondent over President Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers. His policies on the economy, energy, foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Ungracious Generation and Its Demonization of the Past

Victor Davis Hanson | December 30, 2021

The past two years have seen an unprecedented escalation in a decadeslong war on the American past. But there are lots of logical flaws in… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Why Is the Left Suddenly Worried About End of Democracy?

Victor Davis Hanson | December 16, 2021

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

PoliticsCommentary

The ‘Woke’ Got What They Wanted—And Then What?

Victor Davis Hanson | December 09, 2021

The “woke” movement was giddy after Jan. 20, 2021. The left controlled both houses of Congress. President Joe Biden was drafted as the necessary veneer… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Third Worldizing of America

Victor Davis Hanson | December 02, 2021

In a recent online exchange, the YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Losing Confidence in the Pillars of Our Civilization

Victor Davis Hanson | November 26, 2021

Millions of citizens long ago concluded that professional sports, academia, and entertainment were no longer disinterested institutions, but far left and deliberately hostile to Middle… Read More

LawCommentary

Can the FBI Be Salvaged?

Victor Davis Hanson | November 18, 2021

The Washington, D.C.-based FBI has lost all credibility as a disinterested investigatory agency. Now we learn from a whistleblower that the agency was allegedly investigating… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

History Will Grind Out the Truth

Victor Davis Hanson | November 12, 2021

“History will figure that out on its own.” That is what Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., recently replied to Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Ignoble Lie

Victor Davis Hanson | October 29, 2021

In a controversial passage in Plato’s “Republic,” Socrates introduced the idea of the “noble lie” (gennaios pseudos). A majestic fiction, he says, could sometimes serve… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Ideology Behind Biden’s Disastrous First 9 Months

Victor Davis Hanson | October 22, 2021

Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Is America Repeating Cultural Split Between Rome and Byzantine Empire?

Victor Davis Hanson | October 14, 2021

In A.D. 286, the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively—and peacefully—under the control of two emperors. A Western empire included… Read More

SocietyCommentary

How Constitutional Systems and Citizenship Perish

Victor Davis Hanson | October 07, 2021

Only a little more than half of the current world’s 7 billion people are citizens of fully consensual governments. That lucky 50% alone enjoys constitutionally… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Elitism of the Woke

Victor Davis Hanson | October 01, 2021

Epigraph: “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The… Read More