Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and author of the book "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won." You can reach him by e-mailing [email protected].
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Donald Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf. As a result, not… Read More
InternationalCommentary
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is desperate to translate the British public’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union into a concrete Brexit. But… Read More
SecurityCommentary
World War II ended 74 years ago. But even in the 21st century, the lasting effects endure, both psychological and material. After all, the war… Read More
SocietyCommentary
“Socialist” is no longer a McCarthyite slur. Rather, the fresh celebrity “squad” of newly elected identity politics congresswomen—Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ayanna Pressley,… Read More
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Some 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, formally known as the “Treaty of nonaggression… Read More
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has bragged on two occasions that he would like to beat up President Donald Trump. In March 2018, Biden huffed:… Read More
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919. Neither the winners nor the losers of World War I were happy… Read More
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The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
President Donald Trump recently ordered and then called off a retaliatory strike against Iran for destroying a U.S. surveillance drone. The U.S. asserts that the… Read More
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What is going on with the unending Brexit drama, the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s election, and the “yellow vests” protests in France? What drives the… Read More
