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Future generations will learn whether human nature has remained constant—and thus enemies who face only a temporary loss of freedom will prove more, not less, bloodthirsty against both soldier and civ...

Victor Davis Hanson

Future generations will learn whether human nature has remained constant—and thus enemies who face only a temporary loss of freedom will prove more, not less, bloodthirsty against both soldier and civ...

Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our...

Victor Davis Hanson

Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our...

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About Author
Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American classicist, military historian, and conservative political commentator. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Washington Times, and other media outlets.
He is a professor emeritus of Classics at California State University, Fresno, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in classics and military history at the Hoover Institution, and visiting professor at Hillsdale College. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush and was a presidential appointee in 2007–2008 on the American Battle Monuments Commission.

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of wh...

Victor Davis Hanson

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of wh...

Tags: economics, income disparity, inequality, military history, progressivism, society, utopia, wealth, western culture

Military history reminds us that those who died on behalf of democratic freedom to stop totalitarian killing were a different sort than totalitarians who died fighting against it to perpetuate killing...

Victor Davis Hanson

Military history reminds us that those who died on behalf of democratic freedom to stop totalitarian killing were a different sort than totalitarians who died fighting against it to perpetuate killing...

In some sense, winning against impossible odds—when most others cannot or would not try—is the only mark of a great general.

Victor Davis Hanson

In some sense, winning against impossible odds—when most others cannot or would not try—is the only mark of a great general.

Officials were losing their jobs over their involvement in real collusion that as of yet lacked a special investigator or counsel.

Victor Davis Hanson

Officials were losing their jobs over their involvement in real collusion that as of yet lacked a special investigator or counsel.

No society in the present age is so self-critical, so ready to embrace foreign ideas, or so transparent and merit-based as the United States. Far more lethal to the U.S. military than a new form of IE...

Victor Davis Hanson

No society in the present age is so self-critical, so ready to embrace foreign ideas, or so transparent and merit-based as the United States. Far more lethal to the U.S. military than a new form of IE...

Hillary apparently never appreciated that when she went after Trump’s sins of the flesh, it would quickly prove a losing proposition.

Victor Davis Hanson

Hillary apparently never appreciated that when she went after Trump’s sins of the flesh, it would quickly prove a losing proposition.

It may be now blasphemous to concede that much of the current division in the country was deliberately whipped up by Obama. Often in mellifluous tones and with near academic authority, he accentuated...

Victor Davis Hanson

It may be now blasphemous to concede that much of the current division in the country was deliberately whipped up by Obama. Often in mellifluous tones and with near academic authority, he accentuated...

It proved almost impossible to square the circle of ensuring crew safety and comfort when trapped in a riveted or welded steel shell of stored gasoline, high-explosive shells and machine gun bullets,...

Victor Davis Hanson

It proved almost impossible to square the circle of ensuring crew safety and comfort when trapped in a riveted or welded steel shell of stored gasoline, high-explosive shells and machine gun bullets,...

The United States was born through war, reunited by war, and saved from destruction by war. No future generation, however comfortable and affluent, can escape that terrible knowledge. Our freedom is n...

Victor Davis Hanson

The United States was born through war, reunited by war, and saved from destruction by war. No future generation, however comfortable and affluent, can escape that terrible knowledge. Our freedom is n...

General George Patton and others lamented that the Second World War had broken out in 1939 over saving the free peoples of Eastern Europe from totalitarianism—only to end, through the broken 1945 Yalt...

Victor Davis Hanson

General George Patton and others lamented that the Second World War had broken out in 1939 over saving the free peoples of Eastern Europe from totalitarianism—only to end, through the broken 1945 Yalt...

We forget that even worse choices than those have confronted us in the past—like sending billions of dollars of aid to Joseph Stalin to stop Adolf Hitler, just a few years after the former had slaught...

Victor Davis Hanson

We forget that even worse choices than those have confronted us in the past—like sending billions of dollars of aid to Joseph Stalin to stop Adolf Hitler, just a few years after the former had slaught...

The United States, being a strong and wealthy society, and with unrivaled global influence, invites envy. The success of its restless culture of freedom, constitutional democracy, self-critique, secul...

Victor Davis Hanson

The United States, being a strong and wealthy society, and with unrivaled global influence, invites envy. The success of its restless culture of freedom, constitutional democracy, self-critique, secul...

Often the white elite signaled their disgust of the white privilege of the disintegrating middle class as a means of exempting their own quite genuine white privilege of insider contacts, professional...

Victor Davis Hanson

Often the white elite signaled their disgust of the white privilege of the disintegrating middle class as a means of exempting their own quite genuine white privilege of insider contacts, professional...

One can imagine what a candidate Trump would have done with the Wright-Obama connection had he been the 2008 Republican nominee.

Victor Davis Hanson

One can imagine what a candidate Trump would have done with the Wright-Obama connection had he been the 2008 Republican nominee.

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

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 that would guarantee that the...

Tags: civilization, consent, contract for service, government, politics, rome, soldiers, voluteer army, war, warfare

After fighting for four long years, we were completely surprised by the Soviets’ efforts to absorb Eastern Europe, and their rejection of almost all wartime assurances of elections to come.

Victor Davis Hanson

After fighting for four long years, we were completely surprised by the Soviets’ efforts to absorb Eastern Europe, and their rejection of almost all wartime assurances of elections to come.

General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn’t wrong when he bellowed, Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

Victor Davis Hanson

General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn’t wrong when he bellowed, Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

But wars—or the threat of war—at least put an end to American chattel slavery, Nazism, Fascism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet Communism. It is hard to think of any democracy—Afghan, American, Atheni...

Victor Davis Hanson

But wars—or the threat of war—at least put an end to American chattel slavery, Nazism, Fascism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet Communism. It is hard to think of any democracy—Afghan, American, Atheni...