Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

PoliticsCommentary

The Mess of an Address

Victor Davis Hanson | February 10, 2023

After listening to the State of the Union address, Americans know why the latest Reuters poll has President Joe Biden at 41% approval. Vice President… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Race Everywhere in Today’s America

Victor Davis Hanson | February 03, 2023

Tyre Nichols, 29, an unarmed African American, was brutally beaten to death recently by five black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Real Differences Between Biden and Trump Document Troves

Victor Davis Hanson | January 27, 2023

Former President Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled “classified” at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did President Joe Biden at… Read More

 InternationalCommentary

On Illegal Immigration, Mexico Isn’t Really America’s Amigo

Victor Davis Hanson | January 20, 2023

Left-wing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recently praised a visiting President Joe Biden: “Just imagine: There are 40 million Mexicans in the United States…. Read More

PoliticsCommentary

What Caused the Political Hysteria?

Victor Davis Hanson | January 12, 2023

The Left has gone mad over former President Donald Trump—past, present, and future. The current Democratic Party and NeverTrump “conservatives” assumed that Trump was and… Read More

SocietyCommentary

A Country We No Longer Recognize, a Coup We Never Knew

Victor Davis Hanson | January 06, 2023

Did someone or something seize control of the United States? What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The New, New Antisemitism

Victor Davis Hanson | January 03, 2023

The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon—perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed from the… Read More

EducationCommentary

Are Universities Doomed?

Victor Davis Hanson | December 26, 2022

In a famous exchange in the “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

2 Antithetical Billionaires

Victor Davis Hanson | December 16, 2022

Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. He properly grew up on the Stanford campus, where his parents were well-known… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Does Trump Really Want to Be President Again?

Victor Davis Hanson | December 08, 2022

Team Trump sometimes has compared former President Donald Trump’s current quest for a non-sequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

If You Really Wanted to Destroy US, You’d Do These 10 Things

Victor Davis Hanson | December 02, 2022

First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Same Old, Same Old Deja Vu

Victor Davis Hanson | November 25, 2022

Attorney General Merrick Garland has just announced the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith. But Smith’s team will not look into the Biden family quid… Read More

 PoliticsCommentary

Who or What Was Responsible for GOP Nationwide Collapse in Midterms?

Victor Davis Hanson | November 17, 2022

Who or what was responsible for the Republican nationwide collapse in the midterms? After all, pundits, politicos, and pollsters all predicted a “red tsunami.” Moreover,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Tuesday Takeaways

Victor Davis Hanson | November 11, 2022

What, if anything, did the midterms tell us about the country—other than underwhelming Republicans could still take the House and Senate? During the COVID-19 lockdowns,… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Who Denies Election Results?

Victor Davis Hanson | October 20, 2022

A Democratic myth has arisen that former President Donald Trump’s denial of the accuracy of the 2020 vote was “unprecedented.” Unfortunately, the history of U.S…. Read More

EnergyCommentary

Biden Plays the Old Ugly American

Victor Davis Hanson | October 14, 2022

The Left used to accuse imperialist, resource-hungry Yanquis in Washington of cutting selfish deals with illiberal dictatorships in Latin America to grab their natural resources…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization

Victor Davis Hanson | October 03, 2022

Civilization is fragile. It hinges on ensuring the stuff of life. To be able to eat, to move about, to have shelter, to be free… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Martha’s Meltdown Model

Victor Davis Hanson | September 23, 2022

Martha’s Vineyard has been all over the news. The tony resort community so loves aiding and comforting the undocumented immigrants who were flown in from… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Ukraine: With a Whimper or a Bang?

Victor Davis Hanson | September 15, 2022

Russia started the war with Ukraine in late February with a shock-and-awe effort to grab Kyiv. It failed both to decapitate the government and absorb… Read More

InternationalCommentary

The World Wants No Part of Woke, but It’s Glad We Do

Victor Davis Hanson | September 09, 2022

The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgender females. Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40… Read More

Health CareCommentary

The Mysteries of Long COVID-19

Victor Davis Hanson | September 02, 2022

When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. By far most survived COVID-19. But hundreds of thousands… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

There Should Be a Republican Tsunami This Fall. But Will It Happen?

Victor Davis Hanson | August 26, 2022

The late spring scenario of a massive GOP win—in historic proportions analogous to 1938, 1994, or 2010—is said now to be “iffy.” The left boasts… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

‘Civil War’ Porn

Victor Davis Hanson | August 18, 2022

As President Joe Biden’s polls stagnate and the midterms approach, we are now serially treated to yet another progressive melodrama about the dangers of a… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The FBI Has Become Dangerous to Americans

Victor Davis Hanson | August 12, 2022

The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Take the FBI’s… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

No Wonder We Lost Trust in the Expert Class

Victor Davis Hanson | August 05, 2022

For years, European policymakers had assured the world that the relatively rapid “transition” to “green” energy was the world’s preordained future—regardless of the costs. Accordingly,… Read More

SecurityCommentary

The Ukrainian Verdun

Victor Davis Hanson | July 29, 2022

Five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the war is now reduced to one of attrition. The current dirty, grinding slog is fought mostly with artillery… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Left Should Be Happy With Biden

Victor Davis Hanson | July 22, 2022

The left should be ecstatic that President Joe Biden has given them everything they wanted. The left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Gavin Newsom’s Weird Idea of ‘Freedom’

Victor Davis Hanson | July 15, 2022

In a run-up to what is likely to be a 2024 presidential bid, California Gov. Gavin Newsom hit upon the bizarre idea of boasting in… Read More

SocietyCommentary

What Explains the Disappearing American?

Victor Davis Hanson | July 07, 2022

“Help wanted” and “Now hiring” signs are everywhere. Flights, construction projects, and health care services are delayed—or unavailable—due to labor shortages. Hourly and monthly wages… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Crybaby Leftist Mind

Victor Davis Hanson | June 30, 2022

Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority. Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify almost any means necessary to achieve them. Among the elite, the… Read More