Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

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

Health CareCommentary

What We Don’t Know About the Coronavirus Is What Scares Us

Victor Davis Hanson | March 05, 2020

The recent spread of the coronavirus is causing a global panic. Our shared terror arises not so much from the death toll of the new… Read More

InternationalCommentary

China’s Government Is Like Something Out of ‘1984’

Victor Davis Hanson | February 20, 2020

The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large. China is… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Trump’s Unorthodox Policy Wins Are Gaining Steady Support

Victor Davis Hanson | February 07, 2020

When candidate Donald Trump campaigned on calling China to account for its trade piracy, observers thought he was either crazy or dangerous. Conventional Washington wisdom… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Cult of Western Shaming

Victor Davis Hanson | January 30, 2020

An ancient habit of Western elites is a certain selectivity in condemnation. Sometimes Westerners apply critical standards to the West that they would never apply… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Israel-US Model Is Unconventional, and Successful

Victor Davis Hanson | January 23, 2020

Whether by accident or by deliberate osmosis, Israel and the U.S. have adopted similar solutions to their existential problems. Before 2002, during the various Palestinian… Read More

EnergyCommentary

How Europe Made Itself Dependent on Nefarious Oil Powers

Victor Davis Hanson | January 16, 2020

Despite its cool Green parties and ambitious wind and solar agendas, Europe remains by far the world’s largest importer of oil and natural gas. Oil… Read More

InternationalCommentary

After Suleimani’s Death, Iran’s Theocracy Considers Its Options

Victor Davis Hanson | January 10, 2020

After losing its top strategist, military commander, and arch-terrorist, Qassim Suleimani, the Iranian theocracy is weighing responses. One, Iran can quiet down and cease military… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Dangers of Elite Groupthink

Victor Davis Hanson | January 02, 2020

The Washington Post recently published a surprising indictment of MSNBC host, Stanford graduate, and Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow. Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that… Read More

SecurityCommentary

Recalling the Battle of the Bulge

Victor Davis Hanson | December 26, 2019

Seventy-five years ago, at the Battle of the Bulge (fought from Dec. 16, 1944, to Jan. 25, 1945), the United States suffered more casualties than… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

These Former Intelligence Chiefs Fit Perfectly Into Our Media Advocacy Culture

Victor Davis Hanson | December 25, 2019

Former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have lots… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Is Trump the Only Adult in the Room?

Victor Davis Hanson | December 16, 2019

Donald Trump certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth. But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end… Read More

LawCommentary

The Loss of Our Watchmen’s Moral Authority

Victor Davis Hanson | December 05, 2019

One symptom of a society in crisis is the unreliability or even corruption of its own auditors. After all, when the watchmen have lost moral… Read More

LawCommentary

Are Thought Crimes Impeachable?

Victor Davis Hanson | November 26, 2019

During special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, his legal “dream team” tried to make a secondary case that Donald Trump also obstructed efforts to prove Trump-Russian… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

‘Coup’ Concerns Suddenly Don’t Seem So Far-Fetched

Victor Davis Hanson | November 21, 2019

For most of the last three years, Donald Trump’s critics have scoffed at supposed “conspiracy theories” that claimed a “deep state” of bureaucrats were aborting… Read More

SocietyCommentary

What Happened to California Republicans?

Victor Davis Hanson | November 14, 2019

From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder?… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Liberal Policy Failures Are the Reason for Socialism’s New Appeal

Victor Davis Hanson | November 07, 2019

Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail. Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal communism…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

California’s Disastrous State Illustrates Limits of Progressivism

Victor Davis Hanson | October 31, 2019

More than 2 million Californians recently were left without power after the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric—which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year—preemptively… Read More

InternationalCommentary

We’re Becoming More Like China Than China Is Like Us

Victor Davis Hanson | October 17, 2019

A little over 40 years ago, Chinese communist strongman and reformer Deng Xiaoping began 15 years of sweeping economic reforms. They were designed to end… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants

Victor Davis Hanson | October 12, 2019

Many of the stories about the gods and heroes of Greek mythology were compiled during Greek Dark Ages. Impoverished tribes passed down oral traditions that… Read More