Victor Davis Hanson

Hillary Clinton’s Republican supporters are her cultural peers

Many elections redefine political parties.

August 10, 2016

Donald Trump, postmodern candidate

Early 20th century modernism ignored classical rules of expression. But late 20th century postmodernism blew up those rules altogether.

August 3, 2016

The enduring lesson of World War II

Seventy-five years ago, the world blew up in just six months.

July 27, 2016

The nightmarish results of Muslim outreach

When President Obama entered office, he dreamed that his hope-and-change messaging and his references to his familial Islamic roots would win over the Muslim world. The soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize laureate would make the United States liked in the Middle East. Then terrorism would decrease.

July 20, 2016

Enemies see America as vulnerable prey

Here is a sampling of some recent news abroad:

July 13, 2016

Will California ever thrive again?

There was more of the same old, same old California news recently. Some 62 percent of state roads have been rated poor or mediocre. There were more predications of huge cost overruns and yearly losses on high-speed rail -- before the first mile of track has been laid. One-third of Bay Area residents were polled as hoping to leave the area soon.

July 6, 2016

When elitism creates a new populism

Following Brexit, Europe may witness even more plebiscites against the undemocratic European Union throughout the continent.

June 29, 2016

Obama doesn’t let facts interfere with fantasies

Hillary Clinton is a seasoned liberal politician, but one with few core beliefs. Her positions on subjects such as gay marriage, free-trade agreements, the Keystone XL pipeline, the Iraq War, the Assad regime in Syria and the use of the term "radical Islam" all seem to hinge on what she perceives 51 percent of the public to believe on any given day.

June 22, 2016

Choosing politics, not personalities when voting

At first glance, 2016 sizes up as no other election year in American history.

June 15, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Walls and immigration — ancient and modern

When standing today at Hadrian's Wall on the border between Scotland and northern England, everything appears indistinguishably affluent and serene on both sides.

June 1, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Lack of U.S. commitment increases danger

In 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier warned Adolf Hitler that if the Third Reich invaded Poland, a European war would follow.

May 18, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Elites can afford looser immigration policies

Support for, or opposition to, mass immigration is apparently a class issue, not an ethnic or racial issue. Elites more often support lenient immigration policies; the general public typically opposes them.

May 11, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Campus protesters jump the shark

''Jump the shark" is an American pop-culture expression that derives from a 1977 "Happy Days" sitcom episode and describes a moment of decline. At a certain point, a TV show becomes so predictable, empty of ideas and gimmicky that in desperation its writers will try anything -- like the character "The Fonz" jumping over a shark on water skis -- just to stay on the air.

May 4, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama’s miscues over Britain’s role in World War II

While in London last week, President Obama waded into the upcoming British referendum about whether the United Kingdom should stay in the European Union.

April 27, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The horrors of Hiroshima in context

The dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 remains the only wartime use of nuclear weapons in history.

April 20, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Is NATO worth preserving?

Donald Trump recently ignited another controversy when he mused that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was obsolete. He hinted that it might no longer be worth the huge American investment.

April 13, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The politicization of the English language

Last week, French President Francois Hollande met President Obama in Washington to discuss joint strategies for stopping the sort of radical Islamic terrorists who have killed dozens of innocents in Brussels, Paris and San Bernardino in recent months. Mr. Hollande at one point explicitly referred to the violence as "Islamist terrorism."

April 6, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: College students renaming buildings for liberals

University students across the country -- at Amherst, Georgetown, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of California, Berkeley and dozens of other campuses -- are caught up in yet another new fad.

March 23, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama’s scapegoating

In a cover story in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine, President Obama offers astonishing scapegoating for his own foreign policy disasters.

March 16, 2016

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Colleges must return to educating not preaching

The public is steadily losing confidence in undergraduate education, given that we hear constantly about how poorly educated are today's graduates and how few well-paying jobs await them.

March 9, 2016