Victor Davis Hanson

I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear,…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.

— Victor Davis Hanson

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Nicholas Monsarrat’s epic postwar novel of the Battle of the Atlantic, The Cruel Sea, is a quite different, nightmarish elemental story of…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark…

— Victor Davis Hanson

For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we…

— Victor Davis Hanson

A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Japan would live and die by the race card—defining (and demonizing) America as “white” and thus Japan as a kindred but clearly…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism -…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography,…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I think there's a group of students - whether it's the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa,…

— Victor Davis Hanson

It's radical Islamic terrorism. And yet, when you see the last eight years, something's gone wrong to call it violent extremism or…

— Victor Davis Hanson

It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I…

— Victor Davis Hanson

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

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

Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

— Victor Davis Hanson