Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

Health CareCommentary

COVID-19 and the Death of Science

Victor Davis Hanson | September 17, 2021

The scientific method used to govern much of popular American thinking. In empirical fashion, scientists advised us to examine evidence and data, and then by… Read More

SecurityCommentary

Something Terribly Wrong in Top Ranks of US Military

Victor Davis Hanson | September 02, 2021

It’s the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. President Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Does America Still Work?

Victor Davis Hanson | August 26, 2021

For nearly two years, Americans have engaged in a great woke experiment of cannibalizing themselves. American civilization has invested massive labor, capital, and time in… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Biden Can’t Escape Blame for Afghanistan Fiasco

Victor Davis Hanson | August 20, 2021

The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties evaporated in a few hours in the encirclement of… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Woke Nonsense Warps Everyday Life

Victor Davis Hanson | August 17, 2021

Americans are growing angrier by the day, but in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s silent majority or the tea… Read More

Health CareCommentary

Biden Administration Should Look in Mirror Before Casting Stones Over Vaccinations

Victor Davis Hanson | August 06, 2021

It was always going to be a Herculean task to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multiethnic nation of 330 million people across a vast… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Democratic Party Won’t Admit It’s Become Party of Wealth

Victor Davis Hanson | July 15, 2021

How often during the last year of wokeness have middle- and lower-class Americans listened to multimillionaires of all races and genders lecture them on their… Read More

 SocietyCommentary

The Systemic Con Behind Wokeism

Victor Davis Hanson | June 24, 2021

There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of… Read More

 Health CareCommentary

Mysterious Origins of COVID-19 Raise Alarming Possibilities

Victor Davis Hanson | June 18, 2021

For over a year, the American establishment and media have ostracized anyone who dared to connect the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic with the Wuhan… Read More

SocietyCommentary

This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution

Victor Davis Hanson | June 10, 2021

Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it. One of their favorite mottos… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Never Let a Plague Go to Waste

Victor Davis Hanson | June 03, 2021

During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded to them. They… Read More

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