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Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com.

Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

Devin Nunes not a typical politician

Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican., the now-controversial chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is a bit different from what Washington expects in its politicians.

June 8, 2017

German hatred for U.S. predates Trump election

Germans do not seem too friendly to Americans these days. According to a recent Harvard Kennedy School study of global media, 98 percent of German public television news portrays President Trump negatively, making it by far the most anti-Trump media in the world.

May 31, 2017

Globalism crushes traditional lifestyles

The West that birthed globalization is now in an open revolt over its own offspring, from here in Eastern Europe to southern Ohio.

May 24, 2017

Battle of Midway still has lessons to teach

Seventy-five years ago (June 4-7, 1942), the astonishing American victory at the Battle of Midway changed the course of the Pacific War.

May 17, 2017

Republican Party requires remodeling from Trump

Without Donald Trump's populist and nationalist 2016 campaign, the Republican Party likely would not have won the presidency. Nor would Republicans now enjoy such lopsided control of state legislatures and governorships, as well as majorities in the House and Senate, and likely control of the Supreme Court for a generation.

May 10, 2017

College campuses are bubbles against true learning

College campuses still appear superficially to be quiet, well-landscaped refuges from the bustle of real life.

May 3, 2017

2020 election could be another 1972 for Democrats

The year 1968 was a tumultuous one that saw the assassinations of rival candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson's unpopular lame-duck Democratic administration imploded due to massive protests against the Vietnam War.

April 26, 2017

Liberals seek to impose more government

Shortly after the 2008 election, President Obama's soon-to-be chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, infamously declared, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste."

April 19, 2017

Obama’s worldview was too rosy

Last year, President Obama assured the world that "we are living in the most peaceful, prosperous and progressive era in human history," and that "the world has never been less violent."

April 12, 2017

China, Iran may reassert lost dominance

The most dangerous moments in foreign affairs often come after a major power seeks to reassert its lost deterrence.

April 5, 2017

World War I centennial shows how greater conflict was on horizon

One hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. The ongoing conflict ended just 19 months later with an Allied victory.

March 29, 2017

U.S. heading toward lawlessness

In the 1934 romantic movie "Death Takes a Holiday," Death assumes human form for three days, and the world turns chaotic.

March 22, 2017

Trump telling immigrants not to come to U.S. reduced influx

Deterrence is the strategy of persuading someone in advance not to do something, often by raising the likelihood of punishment.

March 15, 2017

Celebrities and politicians slam Trump for sport

The recent Academy Awards ceremony turned into a monotony of hate. Many of the stars who mounted the stage ranted on cue about the evils of President Trump.

March 8, 2017

Liberal elite now in decline

Outraged New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently compared President Trump's victory to disasters in American history that killed and wounded thousands such as the Pearl Harbor surprise bombing and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

March 1, 2017

Illegal immigration has many dimensions

Activists portray illegal immigration solely as a human story of the desperately poor from south of the border fleeing misery to start new, productive lives in the United States -- despite exploitation and America's nativist immigration laws.

February 22, 2017

Middle East stability upset by Iran, Iraq, Russia interplay

The abrupt Obama administration pre-election pullout from Iraq in 2011, along with the administration's failed reset with Russia and the Iran deal, created a three-headed hydra in the Middle East.

February 15, 2017

California secession movement shows state out of step

More than 60 percent of California voters went for Hillary Clinton -- a margin of more than 4 million votes over Donald Trump.

February 8, 2017

When normalcy is revolution

By 2008, America was politically split nearly 50/50 as it had been in 2000 and 2004. The Democrats took a gamble and nominated Barack Obama, who became the first young, Northern, liberal president since John F. Kennedy narrowly won in 1960.

February 1, 2017