Why Blue States Aren’t Having Babies
November 29, 2025
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Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc have a fertile discussion on why blue states have a lower birth rate than red states.
Has the Military Lost Middle America
VDH's Blade of Perseus // Private Papers
Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender.
Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically “overrepresented” in offering the ultimate sacrifice to their country.
When generals, active and retired, have become controversial, usually conservative America could be counted on to stick with them.
The Left’s ‘Assassination Chic’ and the Inevitability of Another Attack
November 28, 2025
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The Fallacy at the Heart of Ken Burns’ ‘American Revolution’ Documentary
November 28, 2025
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VDH UltraD.C. Shooting Shows Law’s Diminishing Sanctity
November 28, 2025
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Can the Lost Generation Be Found?
November 27, 2025
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The Two Swords of Christ: VDH Interviews Raymond Ibrahim
November 27, 2025
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VDH UltraWhy Exactly Do Americans Support Israel? Part One
November 26, 2025
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VDH UltraThe Lost Generation of the New Alt-Right. Part Three
November 25, 2025
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What Six Democrats Didn’t Say in Their Anti-Trump Message to US Soldiers
November 25, 2025
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Insurrection Chic
November 24, 2025
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Venezuela Is No Panama, and Trump Knows This
November 22, 2025
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Did Trump Just Lure Democrats Into a Trap With Epstein Files Switch?
November 21, 2025
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VDH UltraLess Chamberlain – More Bonhoeffer
November 21, 2025
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Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007, and the Bradley Prize in 2008, as well as the Edmund Burke Award (2018), William F. Buckley Prize (2015), the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award (2006), and the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002).
