Victor Davis Hanson

Blog Posts

Trump, Tariffs, Trade—and a Taboo?

(April 2025)

Rogue Prosecutors’ Fate: What Goes Around Comes Around

(April 2025)

The Method Behind the Madness of Trump’s So-Called Tariff Wars

(April 2025)

Seeing Red About the Sea of Red Ink

(April 2025)

What Is Democratic Legality?

(April 2025)

Advice for Ivy League Universities: Take the Trump Deal, Before It’s Too Late

(April 2025)

The Mainstream Media’s Everlasting Love Affair With Joe Biden

(April 2025)

Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?

(April 2025)

Trump’s Counterrevolution Strategy: Flood the Zone, Drain the Swamp

(April 2025)

Will Europe Side With China or the US?

(April 2025)

Will Harvard Go Full Hillsdale?

(April 2025)

Maine Gov. Janet Mills Doesn’t Know It Yet, But She’s an ‘Insurrectionist’

(April 2025)

Harvard’s Radicalization: Lower Standards, Middle Eastern Cash, Politicization

(April 2025)

Trump’s Campus Crackdown Is Long Overdue

(April 2025)

China Would Lose a ‘Trade War’ With the US—’Gradually, then Suddenly’

(April 2025)

The Nature of War

(April 2025)

With Loss of Power in Congress, the Left Turns to Theatrics

(April 2025)

Ten Tariff Questions Never Asked

(April 2025)

Why Is Wall Street Panicking?

(April 2025)

What Would It Take to Destroy the United States?

(April 2025)

Don’t Like Trump’s Plan for the Economy? Let’s Hear Yours

(April 2025)

The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda

(April 2025)

Other Countries Seem to Like Tariffs. So Why Are People Opposed to Trump’s Tariffs?

(April 2025)

What Was the Purpose of Opening Our Southern Border?

(April 2025)

All the Ukrainian Known Knowns

(April 2025)

Strategy to Trump China on the World Stage

(April 2025)

The European Left Takes Out Conservative Politicians

(April 2025)

Pfizer COVID-19 Bombshell Puts 2020 Election Into Context

(April 2025)

Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in America

(March 2025)

How Donald Trump Is Reshaping America in Just 7 Weeks

(March 2025)

The Real Oligarchs Who’ve Been Running Our Country

(March 2025)

From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Porn

(March 2025)

Trump Admin, Don’t Try to Befriend People Who Despise You

(March 2025)

The Left’s Tesla Terrorism Agenda

(March 2025)

Left-Wing Judges Try to Stymie Trump

(March 2025)

California and Its Collapsing Blue-State Democrat Model

(March 2025)

What More Can Musk Do?

(March 2025)

The Lengths Democrats Are Willing to Go to Stop Trump

(March 2025)

The Left’s Lies Did Terrible Damage to America

(March 2025)

The Left Knew They Were Lying to Us All Along

(March 2025)

Gavin Newsom’s California in ‘Existential Freefall’

(March 2025)

The Trump Counterrevolution’s Next Moves Abroad

(March 2025)

What Are the Left’s Solutions for the Problems They Created?

(March 2025)

Yes, Mr. Khalil, Your Actions Have Consequences

(March 2025)

A Perfect Storm Threatens Universities

(March 2025)

Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?

(March 2025)

Why Won’t Europe Step Up and Help Ukraine?

(March 2025)

Trump Has Many Reasons to Be Upset With Mexico

(March 2025)

Our Closest Friend Is Becoming Our Frenemy

(March 2025)

The Joe Biden ‘Now They Tell Us’ Phenomenon

(March 2025)

MSNBC Is a ‘Money-Losing Operation’

(March 2025)

Five Ukrainian Fables

(March 2025)

The Only Immigrant Democrats Don’t Support: Elon Musk

(March 2025)

Pentagon’s Partisan Letter Against Trump, Hegseth Debunked

(March 2025)

Zelenskyy Bites the Hand That Feeds Him Billions of Dollars

(March 2025)

Who Really Politicized the Pentagon?

(March 2025)

10 Takeaways From the Zelenskyy Blowup

(March 2025)

Trump’s Righteous Criticism of Zelenskyy

(March 2025)

The Left’s DOGE Tantrum

(February 2025)

Who Caused the Counter-Revolution?

(February 2025)

Germany’s Election Results and the Marginalized Conservatives

(February 2025)

MAGA Foreign Policy and the Iranian Regime

(February 2025)

Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope

(February 2025)

The Lost Agrarian World

(February 2025)

Pete Hegseth’s Military

(February 2025)

Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennan, and the European Ministers—Reveal It All

(February 2025)

Trump’s Counterrevolution in Washington

(February 2025)

JD Vance’s Message to European Leaders: Listen to Your People, Don’t Go Hard Left

(February 2025)

Is There a Democrat Blueprint to Regain Power?

(February 2025)

Ukraine, It’s Time to Make a Deal

(February 2025)

The Left Can’t Stop Creating Drama

(February 2025)

Germany Is Self-Imploding

(February 2025)

Mythologies About Musk

(February 2025)

Here’s Why Obama Created DEI

(February 2025)

Commentary Sorry, Liberals. DOGE Is 100% Legal. Here’s Why

(February 2025)

How To Commit Democratic Party Suicide

(February 2025)

Even Never Trumpers Are Warming Up to The Donald

(February 2025)

Mexico Is Our Enemy and We Should Act Accordingly

(February 2025)

Trump’s Tariff Diplomacy Is Working

(February 2025)

Trump Has Become 21st-Century George Patton

(February 2025)

When the FAA and DEI Don’t Mix

(February 2025)

Silicon Valley Is Fed Up With DEI

(February 2025)

Are Trump’s Tariffs Really Tariffs?

(February 2025)

Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public

(February 2025)

The Harder the Change, the Tougher the Vote

(January 2025)

Mexico—Friend, Enemy, Neutral, or Something Else?

(January 2025)

Trump and His New Frenemies, Abroad and at Home

(January 2025)

The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left

(January 2025)

Biden’s So-Called ‘Oligarchs’

(January 2025)

Joe Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy “Achievements”

(January 2025)

Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California

(January 2025)

America and Europe Can Hang Together—Or Hang Separately

(January 2025)

Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine?

(January 2025)

Germany’s New Morgenthau Plan

(January 2025)

Devin Nunes Reemerges

(December 2024)

What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election?

(December 2024)

Fixing the Biden Border

(December 2024)

Dronomania

(December 2024)

Are the Years of Madness Ending?

(December 2024)

The Evaporation of the Obama Mystique

(December 2024)

Biden’s Paranoid Pardons and Leftist Morality

(December 2024)

What the Trump nominees Have Not Done—And Will Not Do

(December 2024)

Yes, Mexico Knows Exactly What It Is Doing

(December 2024)

Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality

(November 2024)

The Immorality of Illegal Immigration

(November 2024)

The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity

(November 2024)

Can Trump End Ukraine’s ‘Endless War?’

(November 2024)

Restoring Deterrence Will Prevent Endless Wars

(November 2024)

The Fault, Dear Democrats, Is in Yourselves

(November 2024)

Harris Was Always Doomed

(November 2024)

From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’—Why the 16 years of Vilification?

(November 2024)

Once Joyful Harris Now Goes the Full McCarthyite

(October 2024)

The Ordeal and Triumph of Mr. Netanyahu

(October 2024)

Kamala’s Inane Talking Points

(October 2024)

A Media Beyond Caricature

(October 2024)

Election 2024: Those Who Lecture Versus Those Tired of Being Lectured

(October 2024)

When Is Blowing Up the World A Success?

(October 2024)

We Are in Need of Renaissance People

(October 2024)

How To Blow Up the Middle East War in Five Easy Steps

(October 2024)

Our Ukrainian War Narrative—Paradoxes, Obsessions, and Disconnects

(September 2024)

October/September Surprises!

(September 2024)

Our So-called ‘Experts’ and their Silly Group-speak Letters

(September 2024)

Can Harris’s Cynical, Run-out-the Clock Campaign Succeed?

(September 2024)

An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus

(September 2024)

A Forgettable Warped Debate

(September 2024)

The Biden-Harris World Is Afire

(September 2024)

The Media Lies Add Up

(September 2024)

Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris in 70 Days?

(September 2024)

New Rules for Radicals: How to Reinvent Kamala Harris

(August 2024)

The Quiet Before the Storms in Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan?

(August 2024)

Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’

(August 2024)

The Myriad Projections of the 2024 Campaign

(August 2024)

The Weird, Creepy, Surreal—and Dangerous—2024 Campaign

(August 2024)

Our Three Silent Mice

(August 2024)

The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip

(August 2024)

How Trump Can Win—or Lose—the Election

(August 2024)

Harris Is Recycling the 2020 Democrat Campaign

(August 2024)

America’s Lab Rats?

(July 2024)

Coup Upon Coup Upon Coup

(July 2024)

A Decade of Conspiracists?

(July 2024)

Can We Let the Voters Decide—Not the FBI, CIA, DOJ, Lawyers, Prosecutors, and Judges?

(July 2024)

The Biden Titanic

(July 2024)

Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left

(July 2024)

Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union. . .

(July 2024)

Bidengate and the Doom Loop

(July 2024)

Ukraine and the Winter War, 1939-1940

(July 2024)

The Lies We Have Lived Through

(July 2024)

A Short Anatomy of a Biden Disaster

(June 2024)

Stop the Ukrainian Meatgrinder?

(June 2024)

The Logic in All the Madness

(June 2024)

How California’s Paradise Become our Purgatory

(June 2024)

How Left-wing Conspiracies Work

(June 2024)

The West Is Sick of the New Woke Jihadism

(June 2024)

The Left Knows Leftism Doesn’t Work

(June 2024)

The Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do with the Prosecutions of Trump

(June 2024)

Proving America’s Weakest Link

(June 2024)

Our Revolutionary Times

(May 2024)

Fear Trump—or Bust?

(May 2024)

Loose Talk About the End of Everything

(May 2024)

The Disgrace and Fall of the American Elite Campus

(May 2024)

The Biden Reelection Strategy

(May 2024)

The Fall of the House of Presidential Persecutions

(May 2024)

Try a Little Honesty About Israel

(May 2024)

The End of Old Left-wing Mythologies

(May 2024)

Can The Current Universities Be Saved?

(May 2024)

The Travesties of the Trump Trials

(April 2024)

Iran’s Nightmares

(April 2024)

War By Affirmative Action?

(April 2024)

Are Iran’s Nine Lives Nearing an End?

(April 2024)

Gaming The 2024 Campaign

(April 2024)

DEI Cronyism and Woke Grifters

(April 2024)

Is The Great Illusion In Ruins?

(April 2024)

11 ways Biden and his handlers are hell-bent on destroying America

(April 2024)

Americans Differ on Ukraine and Gaza

(April 2024)

With ‘Friends’ Like Mexico’s Obrador, Who Needs Enemies Like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un and the Ayatollahs?

(April 2024)

Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies

(March 2024)

Will DEI End America—or America end DEI?

(March 2024)

Biden’s Border Blowup

(March 2024)

Guilty!—But Not Really Guilty?

(March 2024)

Elite Heaven or Real Hell on Earth?

(March 2024)

The Anti-Democratic Democratic Left

(March 2024)

Gearing Up for ‘Biden’ Versus Trump: Not If, But When and How to Replace Biden

(March 2024)

American Paralysis and Decline

(March 2024)

Russia! Russia! Forever: An Anatomy of a Left-wing Obsession

(February 2024)

Blue Laws for Red Citizens

(February 2024)

The Strange Disconnect Between Israel and Ukraine

(February 2024)

How to Ensure a Big, Ugly War With Iran

(February 2024)

2024 – America’s Year of Living Dangerously

(January 2024)

Sacrificing Democracy to Destroy Trump

(January 2024)

A Culture in Collapse

(January 2024)

We Are Well Beyond Hypocrisy

(December 2023)

Civilization Versus the New Nihilists

(December 2023)

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