Victor Davis Hanson

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  • Apr 9, 2026
    The Left and some on the Right went crazy over a recent Trump tweet. He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its...
  • Apr 7, 2026
    After failing to win Congress and the presidency in 2024, the Democrats conducted an internal postmortem of what went wrong. While they predictably did not divulge the full...
  • Apr 2, 2026
    NATO members are not legally required to join any member’s military operations that are not formally sanctioned by the alliance or not aimed at protecting the homelands of the...
  • Mar 31, 2026
    The rare quick and total victory over an enemy at little cost often ensures unquestioned political support in modern consensual societies. In most cases, however, especially in the...
  • Mar 24, 2026
    Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers, eventually became the symbolic leader of the entire Mexican American community of the 1960s and 1970s. Indeed, he was eventually...
  • Mar 23, 2026
    Immigrants used to feel blessed and grateful they got to America and were allowed in. Yet something has gone terribly wrong with immigration — an open border, of course, but...
  • Mar 19, 2026
    Explaining the reluctance of America's European allies to help in the war on Iran, even as they acknowledge the threat from Iran.
  • Mar 16, 2026
    No one — except Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu — apparently realized that beneath its shell, theocratic Iran was rotten and decayed.
  • Mar 12, 2026
    Once again at the memorial service for Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama used a funeral to score political points and make it about himself.
  • Mar 10, 2026
    Until last year, for some 46 years, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: always unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, inevitably to be nuclear,...
  • Mar 3, 2026
    War is the use of arms to settle differences—tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material—between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict...
  • Feb 26, 2026
    Critics of Trump’s second-term foreign policy—the usual Left and some on the neo-isolationist Right—claim it is recklessly herky jerky and guided by no consistent grand...
  • Feb 24, 2026
    How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support—and are not Western nations...
  • Feb 19, 2026
    Why would any president destroy the U.S. southern border? The Left typically “pounces” on anyone daring to suggest that the Biden administration had green-lighted illegal...
  • Feb 12, 2026
    In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows: mediocre music veneered over with gaudy, flashily lit, but ultimately empty and...
  • Feb 5, 2026
    Recent regional special elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special election races. Now energized left-wing politicos remind the nation daily that every...
  • Jan 29, 2026
    In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that...