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. Published September 11, 2019
Victor Davis Hanson
Articles by Victor Davis Hanson
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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published August 7, 2019
How threats against Trump create a dangerous climate
Former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published 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. Published June 26, 2019
Why Iran despises the Trump administration
The United States then ramped up sanctions on the Iranian theocracy to try to ensure that it stopped nuclear enrichment. The Trump administration also hoped a strapped Iran would become less capable of funding terrorist operations in the Middle East and beyond, proxy wars in the Persian Gulf, and the opportune harassment of ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Published June 19, 2019
Why are the Western middle classes so angry?
What is going on with the unending Brexit drama, the aftershocks of Donald Trump's election and the "yellow vests" protests in France? What drives the growing estrangement of Southern and Eastern Europe from the European Union establishment? What fuels the anti-EU themes of recent European elections and the stunning recent Australian re-election of conservatives? Published June 12, 2019
Greece finds new footing as a player on the world stage
After Greece temporarily hosted a pair of U.S. military drones, Greek Defense Minister Panagiotis Kammenos said last fall that, "It's very important for Greece that the United States deploy military assets in Greece on a more permanent base." Published June 5, 2019
Trump becomes the Democrats' great white whale
One way of envisioning the Democratic obsessions with Donald Trump is as an addiction. We have seen the initial impeachment efforts; the attempt to get him under the emoluments clause, the Logan Act and the 25th Amendment; the Russian collusion hoax; the Mueller investigation; the demand for his tax returns; and the psychodramas involving Michael Avenatti, Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels. Relentless progressives have needed a new Get Trump fix about every two months. Published May 29, 2019
Federal rats are fleeing the sinking collusion ship
The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. Published May 22, 2019
Our modern 'Satyricon'
The novel survives only in a series of extended fragments. But there are enough chapters for critics to agree that the high-living Petronius, nicknamed the "Judge of Elegance," was a brilliant cynic. He often mocked the cultural consequences of the sudden and disruptive influx of money and strangers from elsewhere in the Mediterranean region into a once-traditional Roman society. Published May 15, 2019
Progressives face a bleak post-Mueller landscape
Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr's indifference to their hysteria over the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Published May 8, 2019
Hillary Clinton projection syndrome
Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller's massive report. She concluded of the report's assorted testimonies and inside White House gossip concerning President Trump's words and actions that "any other person engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted." Published May 1, 2019
