Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

PoliticsCommentary

Trump Has Become the Democrats’ Great White Whale

Victor Davis Hanson | May 30, 2019

One way of envisioning the Democratic obsessions with Donald Trump is as an addiction. We have seen the initial impeachment efforts; the attempt to get… Read More

LawCommentary

The Leaky Vessel of Trump-Russia Collusion Is Sinking

Victor Davis Hanson | May 23, 2019

The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John and Tony Podesta was mostly… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Similarities Between Declining Rome and the Modern US

Victor Davis Hanson | May 20, 2019

Sometime around A.D. 60, in the age of Emperor Nero, a Roman court insider named Gaius Petronius wrote a satirical Latin novel, “The Satyricon,” about… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Injustice of the Left’s Fury Against Barr

Victor Davis Hanson | May 09, 2019

Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr’s indifference to their hysteria over the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Barr recently released a brief summary of… Read More

LawCommentary

Why Clinton Might be Fixated on Maintaining Collusion Falsehood

Victor Davis Hanson | May 02, 2019

Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller’s massive report. She concluded of the report’s assorted testimonies and inside White… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Mueller Investigation Was Driven by Pious Hypocrisy

Victor Davis Hanson | April 25, 2019

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. Despite compiling private allegations of loud and… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Natural Limits of Identity Politics

Victor Davis Hanson | April 18, 2019

Economist Herbert Stein’s old adage—“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop”—still holds. Take illegal immigration. There are currently somewhere from 11 million to… Read More

EconomyCommentary

California’s War on Middle Class

Victor Davis Hanson | April 11, 2019

For over six years, California has had a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3%, the highest in the nation. About 150,000 households in a… Read More

LawCommentary

Left’s Proposed Voting Changes Are About Power, Not Principles

Victor Davis Hanson | March 28, 2019

Progressive candidates and new Democratic representatives have offered lots of radical new proposals lately about voting and voters. They include scrapping the 215-year-old Electoral College. Progressives… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Lessons of Waging War Against the Dead

Victor Davis Hanson | March 15, 2019

The 21st century is in danger of becoming an era of statue-smashing and historical erasure. Not since the iconoclasts of the Byzantine Empire or the… Read More

SocietyCommentary

What We Can Learn From the Turbulence of 1969

Victor Davis Hanson | March 07, 2019

Fifty years ago, the United States was facing crises and unrest on multiple fronts. Some predicted that internal chaos and revolution would unravel the nation…. Read More

EconomyCommentary

On the Cusp of Catastrophe, California Has No Margin for Error

Victor Davis Hanson | February 28, 2019

Californians brag that their state is the world’s fifth-largest economy. They talk as reverentially of Silicon Valley companies Apple, Facebook, and Google as the ancient… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Changing Reality With Words

Victor Davis Hanson | February 21, 2019

The reinvention of vocabulary can often be more effective than any social protest movement. Malarial swamps can become healthy “wetlands.” Fetid “dumps” are often rebranded… Read More

SocietyCommentary

‘Victim’ Status Is the New Prejudice

Victor Davis Hanson | February 07, 2019

In the latter half of the 19th century and early in the 20th century, as Catholic immigrants poured in from Ireland and Eastern Europe, an… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Much Has Changed for the Better Since 2016, Not That Trump Will Get Credit

Victor Davis Hanson | January 31, 2019

The news obsesses over the recent government shutdown, the latest Robert Mueller arrest, and, of course, fake news—from the BuzzFeed Michael Cohen non-story to the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Auditing Our Auditors

Victor Davis Hanson | January 24, 2019

The Roman satirist Juvenal, in a famous passage, asked, “Who will watch the watchmen?” That problem of policing the police has troubled Western thinkers from… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Left’s Extremism Will Continue to Drive Support for Trump

Victor Davis Hanson | January 17, 2019

What are Donald Trump’s chances for re-election in 2020? If history is any guide, pretty good. In early 1994, Bill Clinton’s approval rating after two… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Ironies of Illegal Immigration

Victor Davis Hanson | January 10, 2019

Estimates suggest that there are 11 million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. Millions more emigrated previously and are… Read More

EconomyCommentary

The Facts Show the US Actually Had a Pretty Good Year in 2018

Victor Davis Hanson | January 04, 2019

The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock market gyrations, the melodramas… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Mueller Investigation Stirring Up More Trouble Than It’s Finding

Victor Davis Hanson | December 27, 2018

After 19 months, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has charged a number of targets with almost every conceivable sin—except collusion with Russia to throw an election. Yet suspicion of… Read More

LawCommentary

Comey Continues to Display His Lack of Credibility

Victor Davis Hanson | December 13, 2018

Fired former FBI Director James Comey is at it again. Last week, Comey testified before members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Obama and the Perpetual Presidency

Victor Davis Hanson | December 06, 2018

Former President Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his successor, President Donald Trump. Obama’s charges are paradoxical. On one hand, Obama… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

How Trump Can Get Over the 50% Hump

Victor Davis Hanson | November 30, 2018

President Donald Trump’s challenges are not really his economic policies and foreign affairs agendas. For the most part, they are supported by the American people… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The ’60s Radicals Won the Culture War

Victor Davis Hanson | November 25, 2018

Fifty years ago this year, the ’60s revolution sought to overturn U.S. customs, traditions, ideology, and politics. The ’60s radicals eventually grew older, cut their… Read More

SocietyCommentary

A Voluntary Civic Oath May Keep Our Society Both Civil and Free

Victor Davis Hanson | November 16, 2018

Few of these protesters fear any legal consequences when they violate the law. Nor do those who disrupt public officials at restaurants, stalk them on… Read More

SecurityCommentary

The Lessons of the Failed Armistice of 1918

Victor Davis Hanson | November 08, 2018

The First World War ended 100 years ago this month on Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. Nearly 20 million people had perished since the… Read More

LawCommentary

If We Don’t Enforce the Law, We Get Anarchy

Victor Davis Hanson | November 02, 2018

What makes citizens obey the law is not always their sterling character. Instead, fear of punishment—the shame of arrest, fines, or imprisonment—more often makes us… Read More