Victor Davis Hanson

LATEST STORIES BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

HANSON: A five-step plan to aid America's financial recovery

The current U.S. budget deficit could soon exceed a record $4 trillion. The massive borrowing is being driven both by prior budget profligacy and a hurried effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to pump liquidity into a quarantined America.

May 29, 2020 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement about U.S. trade relations with China and Hong Kong in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 29, 2020.

HANSON: Across the wide, growing American divide

Red- and blue-state America was already divided before the coronavirus epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the East Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out much in between.

May 24, 2020 Columnists

A Donald Trump supporter waves an American flag while waiting to catch a glimpse of the U.S. President after his visit to a Ford Motor Co. plant after it reopened from the coronavirus disease restrictions in Ypsilanti, Michigan, May 21, 2020.

HANSON: As in 1944, Democratic running mate selection seems pivotal

Few Americans can remember past vice-presidents such as Charles Curtis, Charles Dawes or Thomas Marshall. In more recent memory, almost no one can recall vice-presidential nominees who lost such as William Miller, Sargent Shriver or Lloyd Bentsen.

May 1, 2020 Columnists

In this file photo taken on May 18, 2019, former U.S. vice-president Joe Biden greets supporters during the kick off of his presidential election campaign in Philadelphia, Pa.

HANSON: Pandemic is but one of America's security concerns

The world was a dangerous place before — and will be after — the coronavirus pandemic.

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April 23, 2020 Columnists

United States and China two flags together realations textile cloth fabric texture

HANSON: We are approaching COVID-19 gut-check time

We are a few days away from a rendez-vous with some tough conclusions about COVID-19.

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April 17, 2020 Columnists

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19.

HANSON: America still a global leader even in a time of crisis

A current global myth alleges that America under the Trump administration is not leading the world fight against the coronavirus in its accustomed role as the postwar global leader.

April 3, 2020 Columnists

A flag flies beside the marquee at The Anthem music venue reading "We'll Get Thru This" referring to the battle against the coronavirus pandemic in Washington April 2, 2020. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

HANSON: What we don't know about the coronavirus is what scares us

The recent spread of the coronavirus is causing a global panic. Our shared terror arises not so much from the death toll of the new flu-like disease — more than 3,000 people have died worldwide — but from what we don’t know about it.

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March 5, 2020 Columnists

Colombian migration office staff wear protective face masks to avoid contracting coronavirus, at El Dorado international airpot in Bogota, Colombia March 5, 2020.

HANSON: Trump's chances for re-election are looking better and better

Donald Trump has at least five strong historical arguments for his re-election.

February 27, 2020 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump, second from left, gestures, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence, right, after speaking at a news conference on the COVID-19 outbreak at the White House on Feb. 26, 2020. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

HANSON: China's government is like something out of '1984'

The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large.

February 20, 2020 Columnists

A security guard wearing a facemask to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in Wuhan, stands beside a portrait of the late Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong at a shopping centre in Beijing on January 27, 2020. (NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)

HANSON: Is Trump's unorthodoxy becoming orthodox?

When candidate Donald Trump campaigned on calling China to account for its trade piracy, observers thought he was either crazy or dangerous. Conventional Washington wisdom had assumed that an ascendant Beijing was almost preordained to world hegemony. Trump’s tariffs and polarization of China were considered about the worst thing an American president could do.

February 3, 2020 Columnists

US President Donald Trump speaks about the United States - Mexico - Canada agreement, known as USMCA, during a visit to Dana Incorporated, an auto supplier manufacturer, in Warren, Michigan, January 30, 2020.

Victor Davis Hanson

LATEST STORIES BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

HANSON: A five-step plan to aid America's financial recovery

HANSON: Across the wide, growing American divide

HANSON: As in 1944, Democratic running mate selection seems pivotal

HANSON: Pandemic is but one of America's security concerns

HANSON: We are approaching COVID-19 gut-check time

HANSON: America still a global leader even in a time of crisis

HANSON: What we don't know about the coronavirus is what scares us

HANSON: Trump's chances for re-election are looking better and better

HANSON: China's government is like something out of '1984'

HANSON: Is Trump's unorthodoxy becoming orthodox?

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