Articles by Victor Davis Hanson
Republican pundits and conservative activists are debating whether they can win in 2024 with the successful Trump agenda but without the controversial former President Donald Trump as their nominee. Published June 23, 2022
Shares As the nation sinks inexplicably into self-created crisis after crisis, debate rages whether President Biden is incompetent, mean-spirited or an ideologue who feels the country's mess is his success. Published May 30, 2022
Shares Court-packing -- the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes -- used to be a dirty word in the history of American jurisprudence. Published May 5, 2022
Shares Americans, like the planet's other 7.5 billion people, are not prone to talk or think much about nuclear weapons. Published April 14, 2022
Shares Even a truncated Russian Federation has four times the pre-war population of Ukraine. It enjoys well over 10 times the Ukrainian gross domestic product. Russia covers almost 30 times Ukraine's area. Published April 7, 2022
Shares President Biden believes the Ukraine war will mark the start of a "new world order." In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Klaus Schwab and global elites likewise announced a "great reset." Published March 24, 2022
Shares The new AT age -- "After Trump" -- began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented. Published January 27, 2021
Shares The newly formed President's Advisory 1776 Commission may be short-lived with the change of administrations, given that it was born in the chaos of the divisive present. Published January 20, 2021
Shares Two days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody head of a decapitated Donald Trump. Published January 13, 2021
Shares Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture.
Published January 6, 2021
Shares The year 2020 is now commonly dubbed the annus horribilis -- "the horrible year." The last 10 months certainly have been awful.
Published December 30, 2020
Shares After Nov. 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones? Published December 23, 2020
Shares Joe Biden will be our next president. But he will face Nemesis in a way that few other presidents have ever encountered the cruel Greek god. Published December 16, 2020
Shares This Hydroxy Effect -- hysterical disavowal of anything Mr. Trump has endorsed -- is dangerous to the country at large. Published December 9, 2020
Shares A half-century ago, progressives used to push limitless free expression, blasting conservatives for their allegedly blinkered traditionalism. Published December 2, 2020
Shares Donald Trump is nearing a crossroads. Those who allege that he has endangered the tradition of smooth presidential transitions by not conceding immediately after the media declared him the loser suffer amnesia. Published November 25, 2020
Shares Where has the coronavirus gone? Nowhere. The pandemic has gained a second wind, even as it is mysteriously scarcer in post-election headlines. Published November 18, 2020
Shares I once wrote that whenever Donald Trump exits office, he will likely leave as a "tragic hero." Published November 11, 2020
Shares In traditional presidential campaigns, the two major parties offer contrasting ideas and policies. The Democratic and Republican candidates barnstorm the nation to make their cases.
Published October 28, 2020
Shares The coronavirus, widespread quarantines, an unprecedented self-induced recession, and unchecked rioting, looting and protesting -- all in a presidential election year -- are radically disrupting American habits and behavior.
Published October 21, 2020
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