Coup we never knew: Missing U.S. border, government’s Ministry of Truth, canceling the Constitution
Did someone or something seize control of the United States? Published January 11, 2023
Victor Davis Hanson
Articles by Victor Davis Hanson
New antisemitism masked by a general hatred of Israel
The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon -- perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. Published December 29, 2022
Bankman-Fried versus Musk: The left’s worship or hatred of billionaires
Before the November midterm elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. Published December 15, 2022
Let the Republicans’ election blame game begin?
Who or what was responsible for the Republican nationwide collapse in the midterms? After all, pundits, politicos and pollsters all predicted a "red tsunami." Published November 17, 2022
The meltdown at Martha’s Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard has been all over the news. Published September 22, 2022
How will Putin survive his self-created Ukraine disaster?
Russia started the war with Ukraine in late February with a shock-and-awe effort to grab Kyiv. It failed both to decapitate the government and absorb half the country in one fell swoop. Published September 15, 2022
America’s adversaries welcome the United States of ‘Woke’
The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women's sports as transgender females. Published September 8, 2022
The mysteries of long COVID
When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. Published September 1, 2022
Time to dissolve the FBI
The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Published August 11, 2022
Why we lost trust in the elite ‘experts’
For years, European policymakers had assured the world that the relatively rapid "transition" to "green" energy was the world's preordained future -- regardless of the costs. Published August 4, 2022
Gavin Newsom’s weird idea of ‘freedom’
In a run-up to what is likely to be a 2024 presidential bid, California Governor Gavin Newsom hit upon the bizarre idea of boasting in commercials that California is America's true "free" state. Published July 14, 2022
Why the left will cut Biden loose
Republican pundits and conservative activists are debating whether they can win in 2024 with the successful Trump agenda but without the controversial former President Donald Trump as their nominee. Published June 23, 2022
Biden’s Cabinet of dunces
As the nation sinks inexplicably into self-created crisis after crisis, debate rages whether President Biden is incompetent, mean-spirited or an ideologue who feels the country's mess is his success. Published May 30, 2022
Leftists’ Supreme Court packing makes a return
Court-packing -- the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes -- used to be a dirty word in the history of American jurisprudence. Published May 5, 2022
Obsession on nuclear weapons and casually thinking the unthinkable?
Americans, like the planet's other 7.5 billion people, are not prone to talk or think much about nuclear weapons. Published April 14, 2022
Can Ukraine ever win?
Even a truncated Russian Federation has four times the pre-war population of Ukraine. It enjoys well over 10 times the Ukrainian gross domestic product. Russia covers almost 30 times Ukraine's area. Published April 7, 2022
Biden’s ‘new world order’ and the radical left’s reset
President Biden believes the Ukraine war will mark the start of a "new world order." In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Klaus Schwab and global elites likewise announced a "great reset." Published March 24, 2022
Liberals reinvent reality as the ‘After Trump’ era begins
The new AT age -- "After Trump" -- began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented. Published January 27, 2021
1776 Commission’s report offers unifying message for America
The newly formed President's Advisory 1776 Commission may be short-lived with the change of administrations, given that it was born in the chaos of the divisive present. Published January 20, 2021
Democrats applaud social media that blacklists, censors and cancels thousands of Americans
Two days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody head of a decapitated Donald Trump. Published January 13, 2021
