This is something that Donald Trump has been very effective at exploiting because throughout our history, one of the things that was… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
We have had raucous moments in our history. And I think we're in one now. But it's not going to endanger the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism -… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Military history teaches us, contrary to popular belief, that wars are not necessarily the most costly of human calamities. The allied coalition… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes—toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
There's just no - nothing like this country, which is the only, really, multiracial country that's tried to share in a common… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the special interests… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Nicholas Monsarrat’s epic postwar novel of the Battle of the Atlantic, The Cruel Sea, is a quite different, nightmarish elemental story of men at… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Japan would live and die by the race card—defining (and demonizing) America as “white” and thus Japan as a kindred but clearly superior “yellow”… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
