Victor Davis Hanson

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  • May 26, 2026
    Since October 7, we have been lectured nonstop about the supposedly singular sins of Israel. The campuses, the left-wing media, and the new Democratic Socialist officials, both...
  • May 21, 2026
    The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap,” argued that often in history an established power will...
  • May 20, 2026
    Critics are saying America is in decline and China will surpass it. They said the same thing about Germany, the Soviets, Japan, and the EU.
  • May 19, 2026
    One American view of China—now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd—is that the communist colossus will be forever...
  • May 14, 2026
    Democrat candidates in both the Los Angeles mayor's race and the California governor's race refuse to talk about Democrat failures in the state.
  • May 12, 2026
    Few predicted that blaming Israel and the Jews who support it would flare up in the early 21st century—and in America of all places, where there are nearly as many Jews as there...
  • May 7, 2026
    For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions. Unemployment insurance, a...
  • May 5, 2026
    No one ever quite knows the nature of the aftermath of any war in the Middle East. The current effort to disarm and neuter the Iranian theocracy is no exception. But contrary to...
  • Apr 29, 2026
    Victor Davis Hanson works through the WHCD shooter's manifesto, detailing how it echoes media coverage of President Trump.
  • Apr 28, 2026
    No president in U.S. history has been the target of three assassination attempts in which shots were fired by either law enforcement or the shooter himself.  
  • Apr 27, 2026
    Same Old, Same Old: Target Trump At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt—this time in full view of the...
  • Apr 23, 2026
    How does the supposedly most fearsome regime in the violent Middle East now find itself on the verge of an utter economic and military collapse? Iran’s half-century-long deadly...
  • Apr 21, 2026
    Pseudo-Heroes It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to either its generic Trump Derangement Syndrome...
  • Apr 15, 2026
    The prognosis of the Iran War is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the...
  • 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...