Victor Davis Hanson

Why millennials see destructive socialism as cool

When socialists gain power, they don't destroy just themselves. They usually take everyone else down with them as well.

November 6, 2019

Is California returning to its wilderness roots?

About one-third of the nation's welfare recipients live in California. Millions of poor newcomers require enormously expensive state health, housing, education, legal and law-enforcement services.

October 30, 2019

Why is the U.S. still an ally to Turkey?

There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically located air base in Incirlik, Turkey, northwest of the Syrian border. The American forces at Incirlik are also the custodians of about 50 B61 nuclear bombs.

October 23, 2019

Is America turning into China?

A little over 40 years ago, Chinese Communist strongman and reformer Deng Xiaoping began 15 years of sweeping economic reforms. They were designed to end the disastrous, even murderous planned economy of Mao Zedong, who died in 1976.

October 16, 2019

Previous generations of fearless pioneers now seem like giants

Our ancestors were builders and pioneers and mostly fearless. We are regulators, auditors, bureaucrats, adjudicators, censors, critics, plaintiffs, defendants, social media junkies and thin-skinned scolds.

October 9, 2019

How China ‘woke’ the United States

In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet, sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got "woke" on China.

October 2, 2019

The death of American citizenship

The concept of citizenship is being assaulted on the premodern side by the legal blending of mere residency with citizenship.

September 25, 2019

Trump’s nonstop war against progressive culture

Donald Trump has so enraged his Democratic adversaries that the candidates to replace him have moved farther to the left than any primary field in memory.

September 18, 2019

Is England still part of Europe?

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is desperate to translate the British public's June 2016 vote to leave the European Union into a concrete Brexit.

September 11, 2019

The ghosts of World War II

World War II ended 74 years ago. But even in the 21st century, the lasting effects endure, both psychological and material.

September 4, 2019

Why socialism, and why now?

The fresh celebrity "Squad" of newly elected identity-politics congresswomen -- Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Democrat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts Democrat, and Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Democrat -- often either claim to be socialists or embrace socialist ideas.

August 28, 2019

What could sink Trump’s chances in 2020?

What factors usually re-elect or throw out incumbent presidents? The economy counts most.

August 21, 2019

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: A bad deal, 80 years ago

Some 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, formally known as the Treaty of non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

August 14, 2019

Will 2020 be a repeat of 2004 for Democrats?

Democrats by 2004 had become obsessed with defeating incumbent President George W. Bush.

August 7, 2019

Threats against Trump

Former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump.

July 31, 2019

The lessons of the Versailles Treaty

The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919. Neither the winners nor the losers of World War I were happy with the formal conclusion to the bloodbath.

July 24, 2019

The war over America’s past is really about its future

The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the United States.

July 17, 2019

Democratic candidates are running a race of inauthenticity

An epidemic of false identities, massaged resumes and warped ancestries has broken out among the current Democratic presidential primary candidates.

July 10, 2019

Why the Democrats are on a losing track

Presidential candidates from both parties usually sound hard-core in the primaries to appeal to their progressive or conservative bases. But for the general election, the nominees move to the center to pick off swing voters and centrist independents.

July 3, 2019

Why the United States can afford to stay calm with Iran

President Trump recently ordered and then called off a retaliatory strike against Iran for destroying a U.S. surveillance drone. The United States asserts that the drone was operating in international space. Iran claims it was in Iranian airspace.

June 26, 2019