Victor Davis Hanson

Stalingrad victory of Soviets over Germans 75 years later

Seventy-five years ago this month, the Soviet Red Army surrounded -- and would soon destroy -- a huge invading German army at Stalingrad on the Volga River. Nearly 300,000 of Germany's best soldiers would never return home. The epic 1942-43 battle for the city saw the complete annihilation of the attacking German 6th Army. It marked the turning point of World War II.

November 8, 2017

Nuclear club rules scorned by rogue nations

Given North Korea's nuclear lunacy, what exactly are the rules, formal or implicit, about which nations can have nuclear weapons and which cannot?

November 1, 2017

Islamic State can be defeated by free-thinking peoples

The Islamic State (ISIS) just lost its capital at Raqqa, and with it the last of the terrorist group's fantasies of establishing a Middle East caliphate.

October 25, 2017

Political polarization makes it seem like 1968 all over again

Almost a half-century ago, in 1968, the United States seemed to be falling apart.

October 11, 2017

NFL protests hurt the fans and the funding

The National Football League is a glass house that was cracking well before Donald Trump's criticism of players who refuse to stand during the national anthem.

October 4, 2017

Silicon Valley now seen as greedy

When left and right finally agree on something, watch out: The unthinkable becomes normal.

September 27, 2017

Election tampering by Russia still without evidence

On her current book tour, Hillary Clinton is still blaming the Russians (among others) for her unexpected defeat in last year's presidential election. She remains sold on a conspiracy theory that Donald Trump successfully colluded with Russian President Vladimir Putin to rig the election in Mr. Trump's favor.

September 20, 2017

South Korea and North Korea still stand off

Think of the Korean Peninsula turned upside down. Imagine if there were a South Korean dictatorship that had been in power, as a client of the United States since 1953.

September 13, 2017

The media and government both lie

U.S. intelligence agencies said Russia was responsible for hacking Democratic National Committee (DNC) email accounts, leading to the publication of about 20,000 stolen emails on WikiLeaks.

September 6, 2017

When the mob attacks innocent words

"The Bard," William Shakespeare, had a healthy distrust of the sort of mob hysteria typified by our current epidemic of statue-busting and name-changing.

August 30, 2017

Anger over statues of Confederate generals shows moral hypocrisy

Much of the country has demanded the elimination of references to, and images of, people of the past -- from Christopher Columbus to Robert E. Lee -- who do not meet our evolving standards of probity.

August 23, 2017

Silicon Valley billionaires’ donations protects them from liberal muckrakers

Progressives used to pressure U.S. corporations to cut back on outsourcing and on the tactic of building their products abroad to take advantage of inexpensive foreign workers.

August 16, 2017

California wealth inequality makes state crack up

Corporate profits at California-based transnational corporations such as Apple, Facebook and Google are hitting record highs.

August 9, 2017

2016 election strengthened American identity

The startling 2016 presidential election weakened the notion of tribal identity rather than a shared American identity. And it may have begun a return to the old idea of unhyphenated Americans.

August 2, 2017

Republican-Democrat animus only harms themselves

The American political system has never quite seen anything like the current opposition to President Trump and his unusual reaction to it.

July 26, 2017

Russian disinformation has fooled America

About a year ago, Donald Trump Jr. met with a mysterious Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Mr. Trump Jr. was purportedly eager to receive information that could damage Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

July 19, 2017

North Korean nuclear weapons closer to reality

When North Korea eventually builds a missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland, it will double down on its well-known shakedown of feigning indifference to American deterrence while promising to take out Los Angeles, San Francisco or Seattle unless massive aid is delivered to Pyongyang.

July 12, 2017

Liberal plots to remove Trump are backfiring

The progressive strategy of investigating President Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no substantial evidence of wrongdoing.

June 28, 2017

Donald Trump entrusted his generals with national security

Donald Trump earned respect from the Washington establishment for appointing three of the nation's most accomplished generals to direct his national security policy: James Mattis (secretary of defense), H.R. McMaster (national security adviser) and John Kelly (secretary of homeland security).

June 21, 2017

America now the world’s oldest democracy

The United States is currently the world's oldest democracy. But America is no more immune from collapse than were some of history's most stable and impressive consensual governments.

June 14, 2017