Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of "The Victor Davis Hanson Show." His website, The Blade of Perseus, features columns, lectures, and exclusive content for subscribers. Contact him at authorvdh@gmail.com.
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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
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
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
PoliticsCommentary
Former Vice President Joe Biden will be our next president. But he will face Nemesis in a way that few other presidents have ever encountered… Read More
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There is as yet no known, easily accessible cure for COVID-19. Over the past year, lots of old and new drugs and supplements—Ivermectin, azithromycin, Remdesivir,… Read More
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A half-century ago, progressives used to push limitless free expression, blasting conservatives for their allegedly blinkered traditionalism. They boasted of obliterating once-normal boundaries in art,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Donald Trump is nearing a crossroads. Those who allege that he has endangered the tradition of smooth presidential transitions by not conceding immediately after the… Read More
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I once wrote that whenever Donald Trump exits office, he will likely leave as a “tragic hero.” Over two millennia ago, the Athenian tragedian Sophocles… Read More
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A republic is not just a nation of laws. It also relies on its good-faith watchdogs, such as honest pollsters, the media, and bipartisan institutions…. Read More
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The coronavirus, widespread quarantines, an unprecedented self-induced recession, and unchecked rioting, looting, and protesting—all in a presidential election year—are radically disrupting American habits and behavior…. Read More
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In the 21st century, hallmark American and international institutions have lost much of their prestige and respect. Politics and biases explain the lack of public… Read More
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California’s Legislature just passed, and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to California’s African American population—155 years after the abolition… Read More
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The news media until recently had rarely criticized the medical advice of experts—especially those who worked for federal bureaucracies, international organizations, or elite universities. Yet… Read More
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Without common sense in government, civilization cannot continue. After the summer protests and rioting in many large cities, activists demanded a defunding, or at least… Read More
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In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93% of CNN’s coverage of the Trump administration… Read More
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It is hard to tell what the current revolutionary violence in our major cities is all about. So far, hundreds of police have been injured,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Donald Trump recently ordered a 12,000-troop reduction in American military personnel stationed in Germany. That leaves about 24,000 American soldiers still in the country…. Read More
InternationalCommentary
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, at Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9…. Read More
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Cultural suicide used to be a popular diagnosis of why things suddenly just quit. Historians such as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee cited social cannibalism… Read More
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In the 1960s and early ’70s, the U.S. was convulsed by massive protests calling for radical changes in the country’s attitudes on race, class, gender,… Read More
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The National Football League celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. This should be a time of self-congratulation for the brutal sport, which has no similar… Read More
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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 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
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
