Victor Davis Hanson

LATEST STORIES BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

HANSON: How COVID prompted politics of disinformation

From the moment COVID-19 appeared, the pandemic became inseparable from politics.

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January 13, 2022 Columnists

U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks to the media following Senate Democratic lunch, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Jan. 13, 2022.

HANSON: Who are the real insurrectionists?

Recently, Democrats have been despondent over President Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers. His policies on the economy, energy, foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all have lost majority support.

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January 6, 2022 Columnists

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the one year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, during a ceremony in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2022 in Washington, DC.

HANSON: Why is the Left suddenly worried about the end of democracy?

What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on the Left? Some are warning about its possible erosion in 2024. Others predict democracy’s downturn as early 2022, with scary scenarios of “autocracy” and Trump “coups.”

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December 16, 2021 Columnists

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the White House COVID-19 Response Team in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 16, 2021.

HANSON: The 'woke' got what they wanted - and then what?

The “woke” movement was giddy after January 20, 2021. The Left controlled both houses of Congress.

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December 9, 2021 Columnists

A poll worker helps a voter put as she drops off her mail-in ballot at an official Miami-Dade County drive-thru ballot drop box at the Miami-Dade County Election Department in Miami, Florida on November 3, 2020

HANSON: Third Worldizing America

In a recent online exchange, the YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s-hole of a city.”

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December 2, 2021 Columnists

A woman looks through the shattered glass window of the Jonathan Adler interior design store that was looted on August 10, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.

HANSON: Losing confidence in the pillars of our civilization

Millions of citizens long ago concluded that professional sports, academia, and entertainment were no longer disinterested institutions, but far Left and deliberately hostile to Middle America.

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November 25, 2021 Columnists

U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers remarks on the importance of COVID-19 vaccine requirements, during a visit at a Clayco construction site, in Elk Grove Village, Ill., Oct. 7, 2021.

HANSON: FBI should leave D.C. to avoid political interference

The Washington, D.C.-based Federal Bureau of Investigation has lost all credibility as a disinterested investigatory agency. Now we learn from a whistleblower that the agency was allegedly investigating moms and dads worried about the teaching of critical race theory in their kids’ schools.

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November 19, 2021 Columnists

HANSON: History will grind out the truth

“History will figure that out on its own.” That is what Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) recently replied to Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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November 12, 2021 Columnists

In this file photo taken on July 24, 2019 former Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller testifies before Congress in Washington, DC.

HANSON: The ignoble lie

In a controversial passage in Plato’s Republic , Socrates introduced the idea of the “noble lie” (“gennaios pseudos”). A majestic fiction, he says, could sometimes serve society by persuading uninformed citizens of something good for them.

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October 28, 2021 Columnists

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., July 20, 2021.

HANSON: One man's anarchy is another's road to justice

Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan — the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labour-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out?

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October 21, 2021 Columnists

US President Joe Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks at a ceremony marking the 10th Anniversary dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial, in Washington, DC, on October 21, 2021.

Victor Davis Hanson

LATEST STORIES BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

HANSON: How COVID prompted politics of disinformation

HANSON: Who are the real insurrectionists?

HANSON: Why is the Left suddenly worried about the end of democracy?

HANSON: The 'woke' got what they wanted - and then what?

HANSON: Third Worldizing America

HANSON: Losing confidence in the pillars of our civilization

HANSON: FBI should leave D.C. to avoid political interference

HANSON: History will grind out the truth

HANSON: The ignoble lie

HANSON: One man's anarchy is another's road to justice

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