Victor Davis Hanson

Democrats will regret war against the Constitution

Forget that the founders established a constitutional republic, not a radical democracy, in order to check and balance popular and often volatile public opinion.

August 12, 2020

Our annual August debate over America’s use of atomic bombs

Each year, Americans argue about our supposed moral shortcomings for being the only nation to have used an atomic weapon in war.

August 5, 2020

America’s summer of cultural suicide

Cultural suicide used to be a popular diagnosis of why things suddenly just quit. Once elites became pampered and arrogant, they feel exempt from their ancestors' respect for moral and spiritual laws like thrift, moderation and transcendence.

July 29, 2020

Why the current cultural revolution isn’t like the ‘60s

Today, radicals are not protesting against 1950s conservatism but rather against the radicals of the 1960s, who as old liberals now hold power.

July 22, 2020

NFL on the brink: Fans will not tolerate watching multimillionaires dishonor the American flag

The NFL has now essentially green-lighted the sort of activism that in the last few years has been eating away its profits.

July 15, 2020

Arrogance of woke students: Would-be anarchists should offend Americans

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 her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics.

July 8, 2020

Colleges sowing seeds of their own obsolescence with broke and ‘woke’ graduates

How strange that higher education's monotonous embrace of virtue signaling, political proselytizing and loud social justice activism is now sowing the seeds of its own obsolescence and replacement.

July 1, 2020

Anger will decide the 2020 election

The angry and the demonstrating are loud and visible; their opponents are angry and quiet. The election will reveal not just who is more numerous -- but sadly also who is the angriest.

June 24, 2020

The irrelevance of Black Lives Matter and death of cultural revolutions

When a liberal mayor or black police chief or progressive governor or white leftist who diverges from the party line is targeted by the mob, then who really is safe? No one. And so the cultural revolution sputters to irrelevance.

June 17, 2020

The bitter irony of COVID-19 and the George Floyd revolution

The mass progressive protests and violence forced an unplanned end to mass quarantining -- and thereby inadvertently helped jumpstart the country back to business.

June 10, 2020

As the United States riots and bickers, China strangles Hong Kong

While America tears itself apart with endless internal quarreling and media psychodramas and while Europe appeases its enemies, China is now on the move -- without apologies.

June 3, 2020

The spread of America’s self-inflicted debt crisis

The COVID-19 shutdown has left the country on the cusp of a self-inflicted economic collapse not seen since the Great Depression.

May 27, 2020

COVID-19 pandemic intensifies blue-state-red-state division

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 much in between.

May 20, 2020

COVID-19 no more dangerous than the Axis powers and quicker to beat

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 collapse in May 1945.

May 13, 2020

Joe Biden is now an albatross for the Democratic Party

Joe Biden is the apparent Democratic presidential nominee. After all, he had a seemingly insurmountable lead in delegates going into the rescheduled August convention in the postponed Democratic primary race.

May 6, 2020

Joe Biden’s choice of a non-leftist running mate critical to winning the presidency

An unspoken fear has turned the selection of a Democratic running mate into a drama not seen in decades.

April 29, 2020

Pandemic may burn out, but America faces a new, scarier world

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 the infection's origins, nature and trajectory, they may have tuned out other, often just as scary, news.

April 22, 2020

Approaching COVID-19 gut-check time

Economists will likely urge him to restart the economy as fast as possible. Epidemiologists will warn of a second viral spike if millions go back to work. Mr. Trump will either be praised for saving the American economy or damned for dooming thousands.

April 15, 2020

Will America awaken from the COVID-19 crisis as a roaring giant or crying baby?

We must have bipartisan commissions decide how best to return key industries to the United States, prepare for the next epidemic, and pay down the enormous debt we have incurred to defeat COVID-19.

April 8, 2020

Ignore Chinese propaganda and liberal media, America remains global leader during COVID-19 crisis

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 the postwar global leader.

April 1, 2020