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

HANSON: When a quiver of indignation is empty

Don't step over the line and remilitarize the Rhineland. Absorbing Austria would cross a red line.

February 26, 2014

HANSON: On campus, diversity begets not celebration of differences, but intolerance

Diversity has become corporatized on American campuses, with scores of bureaucrats and administrators accentuating different pedigrees and ancestries.

February 19, 2014

HANSON: An Orwellian nation of Obamathink

The nightmare societies portrayed in the George Orwell novels "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm" gave us the word "Orwellian."

February 12, 2014

HANSON: A tale of two California droughts

Despite recent sporadic rain, California is still in the worst extended drought in its brief recorded history.

February 5, 2014

HANSON: The cowardice of politically correct anti-Semitism

An obscure academic organization called the American Studies Association not long ago voted to endorse a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli universities. The self-appointed moralists were purportedly outraged over the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.

January 15, 2014

HANSON: China’s version of the old imperial Japan

In the 1920s, Japan began to translate its growing economic might — after a prior 50-year crash course in Western capitalism and industrialization — into formidable military power.

January 8, 2014

HANSON: The year of the dud

Lots of things that should have happened in 2013 did not.

January 2, 2014

HANSON: Why don’t politicians care about America’s vital middle class?

On almost every left-right issue that divides Democrats and Republicans — as well as Republicans themselves — there is a neglected populist constituency.

December 26, 2013

HANSON: The lost generation

There are all sorts of time bombs embedded within Obamacare.

December 18, 2013

HANSON: The menace of nuclear gangbangers

The hermit state of North Korea became a nuclear power in 2006-07, despite lots of foreign aid aimed at precluding just such proliferation — help usually not otherwise accorded to such an isolated dictatorship.

December 11, 2013

HANSON: History casts doubt on Iran nuclear pact

According to our recently proposed treaty with the Iranian government, Iran keeps much of its nuclear program while agreeing to slow its path to weapons-grade enrichment. The Iranians also get crippling economic sanctions lifted.

December 4, 2013

HANSON: America shrugs off its world leader role

The United States has ridden — and tamed — the wild global tiger since the end of World War II. The frantic ride has been dangerous to us, but a boon to humanity. At the same time, America's leadership role has been misrepresented and misunderstood abroad and at home, including by some of our country's own leaders. Accordingly, our current president, Barack Obama, has decided to climb down from the tiger, with the certain consequence that it will run wild again.

November 13, 2013