Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

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

InternationalCommentary

How China Finally ‘Woke’ America

Victor Davis Hanson | October 03, 2019

In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got “woke” on China…. Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Death of American Citizenship

Victor Davis Hanson | September 26, 2019

The American Founders institutionalized the best of a long Western tradition of representative government with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These contracts outlined… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Real Reason for Trump Derangement Syndrome

Victor Davis Hanson | September 19, 2019

Donald Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf. As a result, not… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Britain’s Moment of Truth

Victor Davis Hanson | September 12, 2019

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is desperate to translate the British public’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union into a concrete Brexit. But… Read More

SecurityCommentary

The Ghosts of World War II

Victor Davis Hanson | September 05, 2019

World War II ended 74 years ago. But even in the 21st century, the lasting effects endure, both psychological and material. After all, the war… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Ignorance of the Past Fuels Young Americans’ Enthusiasm for Socialism

Victor Davis Hanson | September 04, 2019

“Socialist” is no longer a McCarthyite slur. Rather, the fresh celebrity “squad” of newly elected identity politics congresswomen—Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ayanna Pressley,… Read More

InternationalCommentary

A Bad Deal Between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, 80 Years Ago

Victor Davis Hanson | August 15, 2019

Some 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, formally known as the “Treaty of nonaggression… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Menacing Invective Against Trump Lowers the Bar for Violence

Victor Davis Hanson | August 01, 2019

Former Vice President Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump. In March 2018, Biden huffed:… Read More

InternationalCommentary

The Lessons of the Versailles Treaty

Victor Davis Hanson | July 25, 2019

The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919. Neither the winners nor the losers of World War I were happy… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The War Over America’s Past Is Really About the Future

Victor Davis Hanson | July 18, 2019

The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the… Read More

InternationalCommentary

The US Can Afford to Stay Calm With Iran

Victor Davis Hanson | June 27, 2019

President Donald Trump recently ordered and then called off a retaliatory strike against Iran for destroying a U.S. surveillance drone. The U.S. asserts that the… Read More