Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

The FBI Has Become Dangerous to Americans

Victor Davis Hanson | August 12, 2022

The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Take the FBI’s… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

No Wonder We Lost Trust in the Expert Class

Victor Davis Hanson | August 05, 2022

For years, European policymakers had assured the world that the relatively rapid “transition” to “green” energy was the world’s preordained future—regardless of the costs. Accordingly,… Read More

SecurityCommentary

The Ukrainian Verdun

Victor Davis Hanson | July 29, 2022

Five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the war is now reduced to one of attrition. The current dirty, grinding slog is fought mostly with artillery… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Left Should Be Happy With Biden

Victor Davis Hanson | July 22, 2022

The left should be ecstatic that President Joe Biden has given them everything they wanted. The left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Gavin Newsom’s Weird Idea of ‘Freedom’

Victor Davis Hanson | July 15, 2022

In a run-up to what is likely to be a 2024 presidential bid, California Gov. Gavin Newsom hit upon the bizarre idea of boasting in… Read More

SocietyCommentary

What Explains the Disappearing American?

Victor Davis Hanson | July 07, 2022

“Help wanted” and “Now hiring” signs are everywhere. Flights, construction projects, and health care services are delayed—or unavailable—due to labor shortages. Hourly and monthly wages… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Crybaby Leftist Mind

Victor Davis Hanson | June 30, 2022

Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority. Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify almost any means necessary to achieve them. Among the elite, the… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

What the Jan. 6 Committee Might Have Been

Victor Davis Hanson | June 17, 2022

Congress should investigate fully the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol—and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites. But unfortunately, it never will. Why not?… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Subordinate Citizen

Victor Davis Hanson | June 10, 2022

I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

A Cabinency of Dunces

Victor Davis Hanson | May 26, 2022

As the nation sinks inexplicably into self-created crisis after crisis, debate rages whether President Joe Biden is incompetent, mean-spirited, or an ideologue who feels the… Read More

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