Articles by Victor Davis Hanson

Trump Has Become the Democrats’ Great White Whale

Victor Davis Hanson | May 30, 2019

One way of envisioning the Democratic obsessions with Donald Trump is as an addiction. We have seen the initial impeachment efforts; the attempt to get… Read More

LawCommentary

The Leaky Vessel of Trump-Russia Collusion Is Sinking

Victor Davis Hanson | May 23, 2019

The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John and Tony Podesta was mostly… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Similarities Between Declining Rome and the Modern US

Victor Davis Hanson | May 20, 2019

Sometime around A.D. 60, in the age of Emperor Nero, a Roman court insider named Gaius Petronius wrote a satirical Latin novel, “The Satyricon,” about… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Injustice of the Left’s Fury Against Barr

Victor Davis Hanson | May 09, 2019

Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr’s indifference to their hysteria over the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Barr recently released a brief summary of… Read More

LawCommentary

Why Clinton Might be Fixated on Maintaining Collusion Falsehood

Victor Davis Hanson | May 02, 2019

Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller’s massive report. She concluded of the report’s assorted testimonies and inside White… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Mueller Investigation Was Driven by Pious Hypocrisy

Victor Davis Hanson | April 25, 2019

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. Despite compiling private allegations of loud and… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Natural Limits of Identity Politics

Victor Davis Hanson | April 18, 2019

Economist Herbert Stein’s old adage—“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop”—still holds. Take illegal immigration. There are currently somewhere from 11 million to… Read More

EconomyCommentary

California’s War on Middle Class

Victor Davis Hanson | April 11, 2019

For over six years, California has had a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3%, the highest in the nation. About 150,000 households in a… Read More

LawCommentary

Left’s Proposed Voting Changes Are About Power, Not Principles

Victor Davis Hanson | March 28, 2019

Progressive candidates and new Democratic representatives have offered lots of radical new proposals lately about voting and voters. They include scrapping the 215-year-old Electoral College. Progressives… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Lessons of Waging War Against the Dead

Victor Davis Hanson | March 15, 2019

The 21st century is in danger of becoming an era of statue-smashing and historical erasure. Not since the iconoclasts of the Byzantine Empire or the… Read More

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