Victor Davis Hanson

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  • Dec 4, 2025
    Thank God. I mean, do you really believe that if you were a Christian, and there’s a few left in the West Bank, but if you were in the West Bank and you decided to go to the...
  • Dec 1, 2025
    Putin gambled on Western hesitation, and now a war born of miscalculation grinds on because neither Moscow nor NATO is willing—or able—to force a decisive end.  
  • Nov 21, 2025
  • Oct 15, 2025
    Trump’s unorthodox mix of pressure, power, and pragmatism shattered old diplomatic molds—delivering a rare moment of calm to the world’s most combustible...
  • Oct 3, 2025
    Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations--the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson--on many things.  
  • Oct 2, 2025
    It was scheduled to be 15 minutes—but on the other hand, if the U.N. membership was shocked at the candor of Donald Trump, Donald Trump had ample reasons to be candid...
  • Aug 29, 2025
    Europe faces a breaking point as illegal migration, welfare strain, energy crises, and defense demands collide with shrinking populations and stagnant economies.  
  • Aug 18, 2025
    Trump’s Alaska summit with Putin yielded no ceasefire, but it revealed the contours of a possible peace—where diplomacy, exhaustion, and hard limits define the...
  • Aug 15, 2025
    Apparently, this was a place that offered a great deal of security. It’s a smaller, controllable city. It’s in the United States, but on the other hand, it’s one of...
  • Jun 17, 2025
    Iran bet on bluff and delay—but lost its proxies, deterrence, and leverage, leaving a regime rich in threats but bankrupt in power.  
  • Apr 14, 2025
    China's trade war bluff may backfire as the U.S. pushes allies to choose between a rogue economic actor and a flawed but fairer partner with unmatched global power.  
  • Apr 10, 2025
    The real trade war wasn’t Trump’s—it was decades of lopsided deals, deficits, and double standards America tolerated while others profited.  
  • Apr 5, 2025
    Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. April 3, President Donald Trump announced it as “Liberation Day.” And by that he meant we were going to...
  • Mar 7, 2025
    Fable one: Trump is appeasing Russia?  
  • Mar 3, 2025
    Those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he obviously does not like or...
  • Jan 17, 2025
    Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America's stature abroad. In his now accustomed weird mix of...