Victor Davis Hanson

HANSON: Bomb or occupy — or neither?

Wars usually end only when the defeated aggressor thinks it would be futile to resume the conflict. Lasting peace follows if the loser is then forced to change its political system into something other than what it was.

October 1, 2014

HANSON: Where have all the allies gone?

The so-called Islamic State has left destruction everywhere that it has gained ground.

September 17, 2014

HANSON: Why the democracies can never relax

The world seems to be falling apart.

September 4, 2014

HANSON: Obama fails history 101

President Obama doesn't know much about history.

August 27, 2014

HANSON: Fanning the flames of racial unrest

Violence following the recent fatal shooting of an unarmed robbery suspect in Ferguson, Mo., has tragically followed a predictable script.

August 20, 2014

HANSON: Occupation hypocrisy: Gaza vs. Cyprus

Cyprus is a beautiful island, but it has never recovered from the Turkish invasion of 1974.

August 13, 2014

HANSON: Will NATO end with a whimper?

April marked the 65th birthday of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, formed at the height of the Cold War to stop the huge postwar Red Army from overrunning Western Europe.

August 6, 2014

HANSON: When America fell apart

The summer of 2014 will go down in history as the season when America fell apart. Let's take a tour of the disasters.

July 16, 2014

HANSON: The hypocrisy of pro-amnesty elites

Liberals condemn open-borders resisters while insulated from the risks and dangers

July 10, 2014

HANSON: Obama wants out of the Middle East

In his first term, President Obama all but declared victory in America's Middle East struggles.

July 2, 2014

HANSON: Revisionist history prevails on Iraq invasion

So who lost Iraq?

June 25, 2014

HANSON: Bergdahl and the U.S. departure from Afghanistan

Soon we shall get to the bottom of the swap of five Taliban kingpins from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for one Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

June 11, 2014

HANSON: The monotony of thought in the modern university

Employment rates for college graduates are dismal. Aggregate student debt is staggering. At the same time, university administrative salaries are soaring.

June 4, 2014

HANSON: The operational miracle of D-Day

Seventy years ago this June 6, the Americans, British and Canadians stormed the beaches of Normandy in the largest amphibious invasion of Europe since the Persian king, Xerxes, invaded Greece in 480 B.C.

May 28, 2014

HANSON: President Obama’s ethical vacuum

Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki cannot get a handle on the recent scandalous treatment of veterans in Veterans Affairs hospitals.

May 21, 2014

HANSON: Why Putin grabs what isn’t his

Vladimir Putin's Russia is a disaster of a declining population, corruption, authoritarianism, a warped economy and a high rate of alcoholism.

May 7, 2014

HANSON: The overdue end of affirmative action

Sometimes doctrines just vanish, once they appear as naked as the proverbial emperor in his new clothes.

April 30, 2014

HANSON: Harry Reid makes Joe McCarthy look good by comparison

We should ask Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid the same question once posed to Sen. Joseph McCarthy by U.S. Army head counsel Robert N. Welch: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

April 23, 2014

HANSON: The new Inquisition of political correctness

What if you believed that the planet might not have warmed up the past two decades, even though carbon-dioxide emissions reached all-time highs?

April 9, 2014

HANSON: For left, PC trumps reason on ‘settled’ science

President Obama entered office promising to restore the sanctity of science. Instead, a fresh war against science, statistics and reason is being waged on behalf of politically correct politics.

March 5, 2014