Victor Davis Hanson

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 10 tough Trump tariff questions critics don't want to answer

Is Wall Street’s panic based on what might happen — or on what is happening? Is the Street’s meltdown a fear of what might happen? Or is it reacting to March’s latest jobs report?

Opinion March 29

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Key questions about the Signal psychodrama

Author and Professor Victor Davis Hanson has many questions about the Signal controversy involving key Trump administration officials.

Opinion March 2

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 10 bad takeaways from the Zelenskyy blow-up

Victor Davis Hanson lays out 10 takeaways from Friday's extraordinary Oval Office meeting between President Trump, Vice President Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Opinion January 12

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our long national Biden nightmare is almost over. Trump Invictus is now liberated

The train wreck of the last four years was force-multiplied by Biden’s own feebleness, masked by the most scandalous media-politico conspiracy of suppression of it in U.S. history

Opinion October 26

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 10 alarming signs we are in the middle of a cultural revolution

If we had learned in 2014 that elections could go on for months with most Americans casting their ballots ahead of Election Day, no one would have believed it. And that's not all.

OPINION October 5

Why the slow collapse of Harris-Walz won't stop before Election Day 

The vice-presidential debate didn't bail out the Harris-Walz campaign. Going forward, it's just a continued dose of bad news, including their poor response to the hurricane.

OPINION June 20

Trump vs. Biden: 6 reasons why the left is in a full, hysterical meltdown

Democrats know that a first-term novice Trump had a successful four years, and that he now is savvier four years later. They're worried he could win and overturn Biden's catastrophe.

OPINION April 5, 2024

11 ways Biden and his handlers are hell-bent on destroying America

If an enemy wanted to destroy America, could he or she do anything much more catastrophic than what is already currently happening in our country?

OPINION January 28, 2024

Victor Davis Hanson: $83M 'embarrassing farce' just a taste of what awaits Trump

The E. Jean Carroll defamation case and $83 million judgment against former President Donald Trump is a mere preview of left-wing criminal prosecutions to come.

OPINION November 3, 2023

Iran, Hamas leaders proclaim their evil plans. Take them at their words

Iran's foreign minister Hossein Amir-Adollahian has threatened America's leaders with violence over the Hamas terror attacks. Hamas' Ghazi Hamad has promised murder sprees to come.

OPINION October 13, 2022

Biden, Democrats use midterm mass-distraction strategy to hide counterculture revolution from angry voters

Biden, Democrats use midterm mass-distraction strategy to cover for failures on economy, crime and border and hide counterculture revolution from angry voters.

OPINION March 22, 2022

Heroic Ukrainians are shining light in the darkest hour of war

The outcome of Putin's invasion is not determined, and depends on staying confident while calm.

OPINION March 8, 2022

Putin's Ukraine invasion awakens once-sleepy Western nations

One of the most unexpected reactions to Vladimir Putin’s ruthless invasion of Ukraine has been the muscular response of a West supposedly in decline. 

OPINION December 20, 2021

The importance of work and the benefits of honest labor

The U.S. was founded on the idea of the inherent nobility of work. A nation of free, self-sufficient homesteaders believed their hard labor could ensure their prosperity, liberty and autonomy. 

OPINION October 5, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: The dangerous, diminishing power of the independent American citizen

The last two years seem to have been one continual crisis—well aside from the coronavirus pandemic.

OPINION September 13, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: Recall could save California – here's how Newsom, elites destroying once-thriving state

Even ideas eventually have consequences. Soon, even the left-wing paradise on the coast would be infected by the anarchy the rich had created for less important people elsewhere.

OPINION September 5, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: Our new woke Pentagon is hell-bent on losing America's trust – and wars

It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. President Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies and much of the country.

OPINION August 28, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: America's resilience and its resources are not infinite. Can it still work?

The United States just suffered a terrible and shameful defeat in Afghanistan. The catastrophe reminds us that the Biden administration had its politicized military and bureaucracy mostly fixate on diversity, equity and inclusion, and to root out supposed internal enemies.

OPINION August 21, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: If Biden were a Republican, Dems in Congress would have impeached him. They should

President Biden and his team in defeat threaten the victorious Taliban with possible ostracism from global diplomacy as the price of their illiberality. Really?

OPINION August 14, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: An American apocalypse – why people of all classes, races are filled with fear

For the first time in their lives, all Americans of all classes and races are starting to fear a self-created apocalypse that threatens their families’ safety and the American way of life.

OPINION August 8, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: COVID vaccinations – Team Biden should look in the mirror before pointing fingers

It was always going to be a Herculean task to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million people across a vast continent — in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news.

OPINION August 1, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: Critical race theory capitalists, rich CEOs and more -- what is US wokeness really about?

The woke movement is a slicker, more sophisticated and far more grandiose version of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson’s shakedowns of the 1990s.

OPINION July 31, 2021

Black, Bennett, Hanson: Biden, China and Taiwan – how will president respond if ally is attacked?

As China steadily raises the pressure on Taiwan, curiosity intensifies about the likely U.S. reaction in the event of an outright military invasion of Taiwan by the People's Republic.

OPINION July 24, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: How did the Democratic Party of JFK, Bill Clinton turn into a woke neo-Maoist movement?

In the old days, Democrats had predictable agendas, supposedly focused on individual rights, the “little guy” and distrust of the military-industrial complex.

OPINION July 17, 2021

Black, Bennett, Hanson: America and a tale of two wars – one in Afghanistan and one at home

President Biden is needlessly gambling with the survival of any non-Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The three of us agree on that.

OPINION July 17, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: The secret that Biden, Obama, Hillary won't say aloud about today's Democratic Party

The two political parties are switching class constituents. Some 65% of the Americans making more than $500,000 a year are Democrats and 74% of those who earn less than $100,000 a year are Republicans.

OPINION June 28, 2021

Black, Bennett, Hanson: China's naked aggression, provocation is at record levels. Where is US leadership?

The People's Republic of China has raised its level of naked aggression and provocation of the West to its highest point since President Nixon's trip to China in 1972.

OPINION June 26, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: Wokeism has spread like an awful wildfire across America -- here's what's really going on

There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire in 2020.

OPINION May 31, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: American madness of 2020 – will hysteria continue in post-COVID US?

The COVID-19 pandemic is ending with mass vaccinations. So is the national quarantine. The rioting, looting and arson that began in the summer of 2020 is finally sputtering out.

OPINION May 16, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: Biden flirting with disaster – here's where division at home, weakness abroad will lead

Human nature stays the same across time and space. That is why there used to be predictable political, economic and social behavior that all countries understood.