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Victor Davis Hanson is a noted historian and social critic whose philosophies are rooted in classicism. An author, contributing editor and professor, Victor Davis Hanson writes a world affairs column syndicated by Tribune Media Services.
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Victor Davis Hanson (May 24, 2012)
Who could not despise the tottering Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria?
The Syrian strongman has killed some 10,000 protestors over the last year; thousands of Syrians... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (May 17, 2012)
The newly elected French Socialist president, Francois Hollande, is warning Germany that Mediterranean ideas of "growth," not Germanic "austerity," should be the new European... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (May 11, 2012)
Sometimes a trivial embarrassment can become a teachable moment. It was recently revealed that Harvard professor and U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren had... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (May 03, 2012)
We've had some unusual Cabinet secretaries in past administrations -- Earl Butz, John Mitchell and James Watt come to mind -- but never anything quite like the present... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Apr 26, 2012)
Almost daily we read of America's "waning power" and "inevitable decline," as observers argue over the consequences of defense cuts and budget crises.
Yet much of the new... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Apr 19, 2012)
Administration meltdowns are hardly novel. In almost every presidency there comes a moment when sheer chaos takes hold, whether self-induced or as a result of an outside... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Apr 12, 2012)
In 2008, a mostly unknown Barack Obama ran for president on an inclusive agenda of "hope and change." That upbeat message was supposed to translate into millions of green... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Apr 05, 2012)
2012 should prove to be an ideological election about the economy. Not all campaigns are so clear cut. Sometimes moderate Republicans raise taxes (like George H.W. Bush did);... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Mar 29, 2012)
The world was reinvented in the 1970s by soaring oil prices and massive transfers of national wealth. It could be again if the price of petroleum crashes -- a real... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Mar 22, 2012)
When the summer driving season starts soon, and tension heats up over Iran, gas may reach $5 a gallon. Nothing bothers voters more than paying an extra $20 or $30 every time... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Mar 15, 2012)
In so-called "March in March" protests, thousands of students in California universities recently demonstrated in outrage over spiraling tuition costs.
At both the... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Mar 08, 2012)
Americans -- left, right, Democrats and Republicans -- are all sick of thankless nation-building in the Middle East. Yet democratization was not our first choice, but rather... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Mar 01, 2012)
The European Union and the United Nations, as well as globalization and advanced technology, were all supposed to trump age-old cultural, geographical and national... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Feb 23, 2012)
Jeremy Lin is the New York Knicks basketball sensation whose so far brief but amazing performance on the court has set the world on fire in a mere month.
Most NBA... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Feb 16, 2012)
President Barack Obama recently assured El Salvador that the United States would not deport more 200,000 Salvadorans residing illegally in the United States. As the election... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Feb 09, 2012)
On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Barack Obama once called for a "reset" policy with Iran. Supposedly, the unpopularity of the Texan provocateur George W. Bush... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Feb 02, 2012)
Barack Obama's favorability in the polls falls when he is himself -- overexposed, hard left in his press conferences, and boastful about legislative achievements like... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 26, 2012)
The news media seem obsessed with the serial affairs of a younger Newt Gingrich back in the last century. The anger of his second of three wives mysteriously became national... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 19, 2012)
In Greek mythology, the prophetess Cassandra was doomed both to tell the truth and to be ignored. Our modern version is a bankrupt Greece that we seem to discount.
News... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 12, 2012)
President Obama just ordered massive cutbacks in defense spending, eventually to total some $500 billion. There is plenty of fat in a Pentagon budget that grew after 9/11,... more
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Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 05, 2012)
It proved as hard to break up the bankrupt European Union as it was to create it. For all the hundreds of stories predicting the imminent end of the union, insolvent Greece,... more