Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

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

PoliticsCommentary

The News as We Once Knew It Is Dead—of Self-Inflicted Wounds

Victor Davis Hanson | September 18, 2020

In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93% of CNN’s coverage of the Trump administration… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Cultural Revolution: What the Violence in American Cities Is All About

Victor Davis Hanson | August 27, 2020

It is hard to tell what the current revolutionary violence in our major cities is all about. So far, hundreds of police have been injured,… Read More

SecurityCommentary

Saying Goodbye, Sort of, to Germany

Victor Davis Hanson | August 22, 2020

President Donald Trump recently ordered a 12,000-troop reduction in American military personnel stationed in Germany. That leaves about 24,000 American soldiers still in the country…. Read More

InternationalCommentary

Our Annual August Debate Over the Bombs

Victor Davis Hanson | August 07, 2020

This month marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, at Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

Our Summer of Cultural Suicide

Victor Davis Hanson | July 31, 2020

Cultural suicide used to be a popular diagnosis of why things suddenly just quit. Historians such as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee cited social cannibalism… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Why This Revolution Isn’t Like the ’60s

Victor Davis Hanson | July 23, 2020

In the 1960s and early ’70s, the U.S. was convulsed by massive protests calling for radical changes in the country’s attitudes on race, class, gender,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The NFL Is on the Brink

Victor Davis Hanson | July 16, 2020

The National Football League celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. This should be a time of self-congratulation for the brutal sport, which has no similar… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Fragility of the Woke

Victor Davis Hanson | July 09, 2020

A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter.” In… Read More

EducationCommentary

Universities Sowing Seeds of Own Obsolescence

Victor Davis Hanson | July 03, 2020

When mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered… Read More

SocietyCommentary

How Cultural Revolutions Die—or Not

Victor Davis Hanson | June 21, 2020

Unlike coups or political revolutions, cultural revolutions don’t just change governments or leaders. Instead, they try to redefine entire societies. Their leaders call them “holistic”… Read More

SecurityCommentary

Without Apologies, China Is Now on the Move

Victor Davis Hanson | June 05, 2020

George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis on May 25 when a police officer used brutally excessive force to arrest him. It was the latest in… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Across the Wide, Growing American Divide

Victor Davis Hanson | May 22, 2020

Red- and blue-state America was already divided before the coronavirus epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the East Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Losing Our Fears, in War and Plague

Victor Davis Hanson | May 15, 2020

Seventy-five years ago this month, Germany surrendered, ending the European theater of World War II. At the war’s beginning, no one believed Germany would utterly… Read More

SecurityCommentary

Pandemic Only 1 of America’s Security Concerns

Victor Davis Hanson | April 23, 2020

The world was a dangerous place before—and will be after—the coronavirus pandemic. While Americans debate the proper ongoing response to the virus and argue over… Read More

Health CareCommentary

We Are Fast Approaching COVID-19 Gut-Check Time

Victor Davis Hanson | April 16, 2020

We are a few days away from a rendezvous with some tough conclusions about COVID-19. A number of concurrent developments are coming to a head…. Read More

InternationalCommentary

America Still a Global Leader Even in a Time of Crisis

Victor Davis Hanson | April 02, 2020

A current global myth alleges that America under the Trump administration is not leading the world fight against the coronavirus in its accustomed role as… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Trump’s Strategic Foresight Is Being Put to the Test

Victor Davis Hanson | March 26, 2020

The ancient Greeks believed that true leadership in crisis came down to what they called pronoia—the Greek word for “strategic foresight.” Some statesman, such as… Read More

Health CareCommentary

The Great Coronavirus War Is Upon Us

Victor Davis Hanson | March 12, 2020

Try this thought experiment. Envision the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as a living, breathing enemy—which, of course, is exactly what it is. But imagine… Read More