Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

SocietyCommentary

Will the Madness of 2020 Last?

Victor Davis Hanson | May 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is ending with mass vaccinations. So is the national quarantine. The rioting, looting, and arson that began in the summer of 2020… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Why Does the Left Seemingly Hate Israel?

Victor Davis Hanson | May 20, 2021

With more than 3,000 rockets having been fired into Israel by Hamas recently, the Democratic Party seems paralyzed over how to respond to the latest… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Biden Administration Is Mocking Ancient Wisdom

Victor Davis Hanson | May 13, 2021

Human nature stays the same across time and space. That is why there used to be predictable political, economic, and social behavior that all countries… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?

Victor Davis Hanson | May 06, 2021

What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system? Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of… Read More

EducationCommentary

The Decline of American Universities

Victor Davis Hanson | April 30, 2021

Nothing is stranger than the contemporary American university. Not long ago, Americans used to idolize their universities. Indeed, in science, math, engineering, medicine, and business,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

How Much Ruin Do We Have Left?

Victor Davis Hanson | April 22, 2021

As Americans know from their own illustrious history, any nation’s well-being hinges on only a few factors. Its prosperity, freedom, and overall stability depend on… Read More

SecurityCommentary

How to Start a War

Victor Davis Hanson | April 15, 2021

Wars often arise from uncertainty. When strong countries appear weak, truly weaker ones take risks they otherwise would not. Sloppy braggadocio and serial promises of… Read More

LawCommentary

The Woke Revolution Is Powered by the Elites

Victor Davis Hanson | April 08, 2021

Ed Bastian made $17 million in 2019 as chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines, Georgia’s largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America

Victor Davis Hanson | April 01, 2021

Ten new ideas are changing America, maybe permanently: 1. Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national… Read More

InternationalCommentary

China Continues to Show Its Contempt for US

Victor Davis Hanson | March 25, 2021

Last week in Anchorage, Alaska, Chinese diplomats dressed down Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Both seem stunned by the… Read More

 PoliticsCommentary

Why Is Our Military Choosing New Enemies?

Victor Davis Hanson | March 18, 2021

The U.S. military has turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressed his “revulsion” after Carlson questioned… Read More

SocietyCommentary

We Have Lost an American Genius

Victor Davis Hanson | February 25, 2021

Rush Limbaugh created modern national talk radio as we now know it. For over three decades he kept at rapt attention—live from noon to 3… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The World Goes on While America Sleeps

Victor Davis Hanson | February 12, 2021

The Democrat-controlled Senate spends thousands of collective hours conducting an impeachment trial against a president who is no longer president. The acquittal is predetermined, as… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Will Hard-Left Turn Lead to Pushback?

Victor Davis Hanson | February 07, 2021

The corruption of the Renaissance Church prompted the Reformation, which in turn sparked a Counter-Reformation of reformist, and more zealous, Catholics. The cultural excesses and… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The ‘After Trump’ Era Begins

Victor Davis Hanson | January 28, 2021

The new AT age—“After Trump”—began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known… Read More

SocietyCommentary

It’s Fake News That the 1776 Commission Report Whitewashes America’s Past

Victor Davis Hanson | January 21, 2021

The newly formed President’s Advisory 1776 Commission just released its report. The group was chaired by Churchill historian and Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

Is the Wisdom of Homer Immune to Cancel Culture?

Victor Davis Hanson | January 11, 2021

Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture. We are now seeing efforts to ban classics… Read More

SocietyCommentary

What Will Historians Make of Our Annus Horribilis?

Victor Davis Hanson | December 31, 2020

The year 2020 is now commonly dubbed the annus horribilis—“the horrible year.” The past 10 months certainly have been awful. But then so was 1968,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Our Upside-Down Postelection World

Victor Davis Hanson | December 24, 2020

After Nov. 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones? Media cross-examination of… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Biden Should Beware of Nemesis

Victor Davis Hanson | December 22, 2020

Former Vice President Joe Biden will be our next president. But he will face Nemesis in a way that few other presidents have ever encountered… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

2 Paths for Biden: Adopt Trump Tactics or Tailspin

Victor Davis Hanson | December 17, 2020

There is as yet no known, easily accessible cure for COVID-19. Over the past year, lots of old and new drugs and supplements—Ivermectin, azithromycin, Remdesivir,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Why Do Progressives No Longer Defend Free Expression?

Victor Davis Hanson | December 03, 2020

A half-century ago, progressives used to push limitless free expression, blasting conservatives for their allegedly blinkered traditionalism. They boasted of obliterating once-normal boundaries in art,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Trump Faces Critical Choice About His Political Future

Victor Davis Hanson | November 25, 2020

Donald Trump is nearing a crossroads. Those who allege that he has endangered the tradition of smooth presidential transitions by not conceding immediately after the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Will Trump Ride Off Into the Sunset?

Victor Davis Hanson | November 12, 2020

I once wrote that whenever Donald Trump exits office, he will likely leave as a “tragic hero.” Over two millennia ago, the Athenian tragedian Sophocles… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Disinformationists

Victor Davis Hanson | November 05, 2020

A republic is not just a nation of laws. It also relies on its good-faith watchdogs, such as honest pollsters, the media, and bipartisan institutions…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

In 2020, a Radical Disruption of American Life

Victor Davis Hanson | October 23, 2020

The coronavirus, widespread quarantines, an unprecedented self-induced recession, and unchecked rioting, looting, and protesting—all in a presidential election year—are radically disrupting American habits and behavior…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

Destroying the Institutions We Inherited

Victor Davis Hanson | October 15, 2020

In the 21st century, hallmark American and international institutions have lost much of their prestige and respect. Politics and biases explain the lack of public… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Ignoring Current Problems, California Comes Up With Illogical Reparations Bill

Victor Davis Hanson | October 08, 2020

California’s Legislature just passed, and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to California’s African American population—155 years after the abolition… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Unscientific Attack on the Science of Dr. Scott Atlas

Victor Davis Hanson | October 01, 2020

The news media until recently had rarely criticized the medical advice of experts—especially those who worked for federal bureaucracies, international organizations, or elite universities. Yet… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Civilization Requires Collective Common Sense

Victor Davis Hanson | September 25, 2020

Without common sense in government, civilization cannot continue. After the summer protests and rioting in many large cities, activists demanded a defunding, or at least… Read More