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Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson

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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

Illustration on the redrawn map of the world by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Aggressive nations expanding sovereignty

Adolf Hitler started World War II by attacking Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. Nazi Germany moved only after it had already remilitarized the Rhineland, absorbed Austria and dismantled Czechoslovakia. Before the outbreak of the war, Hitler's new Third Reich had created the largest German-speaking nation in European history.

June 17, 2015
Illustration on the draw western political freedoms have for the world's tyrannized peoples by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Refugees prefer to be illegal in U.S.

TUSCANY, Italy -- Northern and central Italy are not on the southern Mediterranean. But somehow thousands of refugees from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are everywhere here -- as is true of much of the European Union. Some sleep on park benches. Many peddle knock-off electronic goods and counterfeit watches. Angry Italians shoo away refugee beggars from tour groups.

June 3, 2015
Illustration on the Cotton letter's impact on nuclear talks with Iran by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Tom Cotton will take blame if Iran nuke talks fail

The snarky quip attributed to 19th-century French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand — "It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder" — has recently been making the rounds to deride a letter written by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and signed by 46 other senators.

March 25, 2015
Hillary Rodham Clinton answers questions at a news conference at the United Nations, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Clinton conceded that she should have used a government email to conduct business as secretary of state, saying her decision was simply a matter of "convenience." (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Public officials break laws to avoid scrutiny

Former CIA Director David Petraeus plea-bargained to a misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material after having given classified government information to his onetime mistress, Paula Broadwell. How was Gen. Petraeus' transgression uncovered? By exposure of a nongovernment email account that he had set up with to communicate with Ms. Broadwell free of CIA scrutiny.

March 11, 2015
Illustration on Obama's political setback in the 2014 mid-term elections by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: A Democratic Waterloo

The Duke of Wellington said of his close-run victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo that the French "came on in the same old way, and we sent them back in the same old way."

November 5, 2014
President Kennedy confers with his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in 1962 during the buildup of tensions with the Soviet Union that became Cuban Missile Crisis. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

HANSON: The new missiles of October

In October 1962, America worried whether an untried young president, John F. Kennedy, could keep us safe from nuclear-tipped missiles from nearby communist Cuba.

October 22, 2014