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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

HANSON: Same old, same old in Syria

U.S. interventions have been all over the map, and so have their results

September 5, 2013

HANSON: The Israeli Spring

Israel could be forgiven for having a siege mentality — given that at any moment, old front-line enemies Syria and Egypt might spill their violence over common borders.

August 30, 2013

HANSON: Triviality versus reality

Two quite different 21st-century Americas are emerging. The nation is not so much divided by "wars" between the rich and poor, men and women, or white and non-white. Instead, there is the world of reality versus that of triviality.

August 22, 2013

HANSON: Why the president doesn’t know where he is

In Sam Cooke's classic 1959 hit song "Wonderful World," the lyrics downplayed formal learning with lines such as "Don't know much about history ... . Don't know much about geography."

August 16, 2013

HANSON: Giving new meaning to ‘let’s roll’

We all run across the pill bug in our gardens. At the first sign of danger, the tiny, paranoid crustacean suddenly turns into a ball — in hopes danger will have passed when he unrolls.

August 9, 2013

HANSON: Lifeless populism

Occupy Wall Streeters claimed that they were populists. Their ideological opposites, the Tea Partyers, said they were, too.

August 2, 2013

HANSON: Back to the 20th-century future

We may be in the era of Facebook and fracking, but 2013 is still beginning to look a lot like the cataclysmic century we just left behind.

July 26, 2013

HANSON: The cruel cynicism of Mexican emigration

There are many strange elements in the current debate over illegal immigration, but none stranger than the mostly ignored role of Mexico.

July 19, 2013

HANSON: The crime of hate thought

When do insensitive words destroy reputations? It all depends.

July 12, 2013

HANSON: The press and its Faustian deal

In the old Dr. Faustus story, a young scholar bargains away his soul to the devil for promises of obtaining almost anything he wants.

July 5, 2013

HANSON: Coasting on the fumes of past greatness

By A.D. 200, the Roman republic was a distant memory. Few citizens of the global Roman Empire even knew of their illustrious ancestors. Something likewise both depressing and encouraging is happening to the United States

June 28, 2013

HANSON: When dishonesty undermines democracy

Truth is the lifeblood of democracy. Without honesty, the foundations of consensual government crumble.

June 21, 2013

HANSON: America’s vast margin of error

The Obama administration is facing scandals everywhere - using the Internal Revenue Service to punish political enemies, seizing the phone records of Associated Press and Fox News reporters, monitoring phone and email accounts of millions, and making up stories about what happened in Benghazi, Libya.

June 14, 2013