The Water Wars, Part Three: Turn on the Pumps and Save the Crop!
Victor Davis Hanson By the 1930s and 1940s, drillers had mastered the challenges of drilling deeply, supplying metal and later plastic casing, and “developing” (blasting…
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Europe’s Decline Is Becoming Impossible to Ignore
Today, I sat down with Sami Winc to discuss the growing unrest in France, antisemitic…
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Ilhan Omar and the Stakes of the Midterms
The 2026 midterms will be a critical test of the direction of the Democratic Party…
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On The Current Riots In France
Victor Davis Hanson discusses the causes, effects, and implications of the recent riots throughout France.
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The Dangerous Decline of Western Civilization
Western civilization is facing a crisis of its own making. Across Europe, mass immigration, failed…
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The Water Wars, Part Two: Too Many Farmers, Too Little Water
Victor Davis Hanson I can remember as a teen irrigating with my grandfather by turning…
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The Deep Midterms
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness There are two ways of looking at the midterms, now…
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France Is Burning as Europe Reaches Its Breaking Point
France is burning once again, with violent riots spreading across Europe and raising serious questions…
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The Water Wars, Part One: Without Water, We Are Nothing
Victor Davis Hanson The American Southwest, and central and southern California especially, were blessed with…
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How the Left Took Over American Education
How did the ideas of European postmodernists like Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida find their…
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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).
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