Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.

Loose Talk About the End of Everything

Loose Talk About the End of Everything

After a recent summit Jinping and Putin issued an odd one-sentence communique: “There can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be fought.”
Israel begins retaliatory strikes on Iran: Report

Are Iran’s Nine Lives Nearing an End?

Iran may wake up and learn Israel, or America, or both might retaliate for a half-century of its terrorist aggression— with indifference or delight of the world.
Massacre Across Israel From the Eyes of Hamas

Americans Differ on Ukraine and Gaza

Fickle Americans sympathize with those who are attacked. But continuing support seems contingent on whether the victim can remain sympathetic—and win rapidly.

10 Realities of Ukraine

One — Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence...
UCI medical staff receives a COVID-19 vaccination

Biden Administration Should Look in Mirror Before Casting Stones Over Vaccinations

It was always going to be a Herculean task to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million people across a...

Our Razor’s Edge

Americans are far beyond President Joe Biden’s serial untruths of some eight years that he never discussed Hunter Biden’s various get-rich-quick schemes.

Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities

A common denominator explaining why successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies and refusal to discuss existential threats and solutions.

Post-Postmodern America

How contrary to human nature, impractical, and destructive is revolutionary, utopian wokism, whether in matters of energy, race, crime, or illegal immigration.
Life of Washington Mural

Victor Davis Hanson: America Does not have to be Perfect to be Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0HeR59TZ9s The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of...
Sovietized

Victor Davis Hanson: Are Americans becoming Sovietized?

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...
Victor Davis Hanson

The 10 radical new rules that are changing America

There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.  1. Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate...

Victor Davis Hanson on COVID-19, California, and the Classical World

Victor Davis Hanson is both a classical scholar at the Hoover Institution and a farmer in the San Joaquin Valley of California. He’s also...