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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.
By Victor Davis Hanson (May 05, 2011)
The welcome end of Osama bin Laden at the hands of helicopter-borne American military commandos raises a number of issues.
Americans rejoiced at news of the end of... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Apr 28, 2011)
Are high gas prices a good thing?
That is not as dumb a question as it sounds. Examine a few revealing past remarks from President Obama and the Cabinet officials who... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Apr 21, 2011)
Last week, President Obama reversed course once again and now wants to raise taxes on the "rich" making above $250,000 per year. Obama is in dire need of additional revenue... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Apr 14, 2011)
Barack Obama just gave a belated but stern warning about escalating debt -- a few weeks after he presented a 2011 budget with a $1.6 trillion annual deficit, the largest... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Apr 07, 2011)
President Obama has announced that America would stop attacking Col. Muammar Gadhafi's forces in Libya. He instead hopes that others can force out Gadhafi -- or that... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Mar 31, 2011)
By bombing Libya, President Obama accomplished some things once thought absolutely impossible in America:
a) War-mongering liberals. Liberals are now chest-thumping about... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Mar 24, 2011)
Gas is well over $4 a gallon in most places in California -- and soaring elsewhere as well. But are such high energy prices good or bad?
That should be a stupid question.... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Mar 17, 2011)
More than 400 years ago, William Shakespeare wrote a riveting tragedy about a young, charismatic Danish prince who vowed to do the right thing in avenging his murdered... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Mar 10, 2011)
The Obama administration figures that it has read the national mood well. This therapeutic generation of Americans loves to talk and worry about problems and then assumes... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Mar 03, 2011)
America seems trapped in an exploding Middle East minefield.
Revolts are breaking out amid the choke points of world commerce. Shiite populations are now restive in the... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Feb 24, 2011)
President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission -- and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Feb 17, 2011)
In times of massive deficits, why are we borrowing millions to subsidize profitable agribusiness? Lots of presidents have asked that question. George H.W. Bush tried to cut... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Feb 10, 2011)
California Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state's disastrous budget is a... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 27, 2011)
American reality has been turned upside down in just 20 years.
Americans no longer count on their news to be filtered and shaped by the Associated Press or the New York... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 20, 2011)
After the recent Tucson, Ariz., shootings, Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, a Democrat, almost immediately and without evidence claimed that conservative... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 13, 2011)
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and both the elder and younger George Bush all found the third and fourth years of their presidencies harder than the first and second. The nation... more
By Victor Davis Hanson (Jan 06, 2011)
In classical Athens, public life became dominated by clever and smart-sounding sophists. These mellifluous "really wise guys" made money and gained influence by their... more