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Israel-haters’ selective outrage exposes the hypocrisy of their lies

The libels of genocide and ethnic cleansing being cast at the Jewish state apply far more accurately to a host of other nations.

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Spare Us the Selective Outrage

Spare Us the Selective Outrage

Since October 7, we have been lectured nonstop about the supposedly singular sins of Israel. The campuses, the left-wing media, and the new Democratic...

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Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

America Is Not Caught in a 'Thucydides Trap'!

America Is Not Caught in a 'Thucydides Trap'!

The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article "The Thucydides Trap," argued that often in...

26.05.2026 4

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: America Is Not Caught In A ‘Thucydides Trap’!

So, we are not caught in a 'Thucydides Trap.'

26.05.2026 1

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

The ‘America-worst’ crowd cheers for China — but here’s what they forget

According to nearly every historical measure of power, the United States leads China by sizable margins — in wealth, economic output, fuel, food and...

21.05.2026 7

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

America: The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

America: The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

One American view of China – now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd – is that the...

20.05.2026 5

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

How the left’s ‘perfect storm’ infected America with Jew hate

Demographics, DEI and the woke Jacobin agenda produced the poisonous antisemitism now shredding the West.

15.05.2026 6

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

The Four Horsemen of the New Antisemitism

Few predicted that blaming Israel and the Jews who support it would flare up in the early 21st century – and in America of all places, where there...

14.05.2026 6

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

How our ‘new’ Democratic Party is really a blast from the Jacobin past

Today, supporting Israel and calling for campuses to stop their institutionalized antisemitism is Democratic political suicide.

11.05.2026 20

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live The Jacobins!

The new Jacobins destroyed the southern border.

07.05.2026 10

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!

For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar...

07.05.2026 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Same Old, Same Old: Target Trump

At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt — this time in full view...

30.04.2026 6

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: From One Assassination Attempt To The Next —Mainstreaming Violence Against A President

So deep runs their hatred.vic

30.04.2026 10

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

How the delusional Democrats are creating an alternate left-wing universe

The Democratic Party spins up its own version of reality — and demands upending the political system itself rather than working within it to appeal...

27.04.2026 20

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Pseudo-Heroes

It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to either its generic Trump...

23.04.2026 20

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Iran – A Longer View

The prognosis of the Iran War is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go...

16.04.2026 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

‘War crime’ hysteria smears plenty of presidents — except for one

Now that the left has called for investigations of war crimes, by all means let them begin.

09.04.2026 10

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

By All Means Let the War Crimes Trials Begin!

The Left and some on the Right went crazy over President Donald Trump's recent tweet. He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking...

09.04.2026 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Trump didn’t wreck NATO — he just exposed its anti-US hypocrisy

When NATO members in the past operated unilaterally to defend their own interests, they've often called on the United States for overt help.

03.04.2026 20

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

A Foolish NATO Was a Big Loser in the Iran War

NATO members are not legally required to join any member's military operations that are not formally sanctioned by the alliance or not aimed at...

02.04.2026 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Who Was Cesar Chavez — and Who Will He Become?

Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers, eventually became the symbolic leader of the entire Mexican-American community of the 1960s and...

26.03.2026 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson: Who Was Cesar Chavez — And Who Will He Become?

So, the Left is on the horns of a dilemma.

26.03.2026 20

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Why today’s immigrants to America are so hostile to their new country

Immigrants used to feel blessed and grateful they got to America and were allowed in. Yet something has gone terribly wrong with immigration — an...

22.03.2026 10

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Our New Ungracious Immigrants

Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla,...

19.03.2026 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Trump challenged 50 years of Iran fears — and revealed the rotten, decaying truth

No one — except Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu — apparently realized that beneath its shell, theocratic Iran was rotten and decayed.

15.03.2026 20

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Our Long Road to War With Iran

Until last year, for some 46 years, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: always unpredictable, reckless,...

13.03.2026 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Long Road To War With Iran

All that said, was it really ever all that formidable?

12.03.2026 20

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Trump has ordered a new way of warfare — and it’s working

Trump's novel way of waging Western war against America's foreign enemies means hitting fast, hitting hard, going right for the top — and keeping US...

08.03.2026 30

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Trump’s Way Of War

Trump uses his strikes as global reminders of American prowess.

05.03.2026 10

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Trump's Way of War

War is the use of arms to settle differences – tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material – between organized groups. It is unchanging....

05.03.2026 20

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

Why the left’s serial insanities keep becoming the law of the land

Self-destructive fits of society-wide insanity follow a multi-step process, and the travel time from an outlandish idea to liberal status quo is a...

01.03.2026 30

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Graveyard Of Destructive Ideas

Groupthink and mob mentality prevail.

26.02.2026 10

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Here’s the REAL reason the left favors a wide-open southern US border

Why would any president destroy the US southern border?

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Why Exactly Did They Destroy The Border?

Yet the triumphant Left never imagined a Trump reelection.

19.02.2026 20

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Super Bowl halftime shows have grown predictable, boring and nonsensical — see Bad Bunny

In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows.

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

China’s Quiet Infiltration of America

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our...

13.02.2026 200

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Our Super Bowl Satyricon

12.02.2026 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Super Bowl Satyricon

In sum, same old, same old Super Bowl Satyricon.

12.02.2026 20

The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Minnesota Insurrection Proves ‘Blue State Model’ Has Failed

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our...

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The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson: Vance vs. Rubio

Victor Davis Hanson returns to weigh the balancing act Vice President JD Vance faces in a potential 2028 run in weeding out antisemitism from...

10.02.2026 20

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Democrats’ ICE hysteria hides their deepest midterm fears

Without the smokescreen of the ICE psychodramas, the party's very real weaknesses could derail its plans for midterm victory.

09.02.2026 20

New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Midterm Palpitations

06.02.2026 20

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Midterm Palpitations

Voters still support closed borders.

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The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson: Slouching Toward Fort Sumter?

In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction... Read More...

03.02.2026 20

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Minnesota ignores history’s warnings and slouches toward another Fort Sumter

Once sanctuary states began nullifying federal immigration law, they began a logical — and dangerous — descent into open defiance of the federal...

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New York Post

Victor Davis Hanson

Slouching Toward Fort Sumter?

02.02.2026 10

Townhall

Victor Davis Hanson

‘I Hope to Post Things Now and Again’: Victor Davis Hanson Offers New Health Update

Notes In Absentia I want again to thank everyone for the wonderful expressions of concern and reassurance that I have received from listeners and...

02.02.2026 20

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Slouching Towards Fort Sumter?

Not all Unionists believed that war was inevitable.

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The Daily Caller

Victor Davis Hanson

Ivy League Prof: ‘Black Lives Matter Was Created From a Fabrication’

“Black Lives Matter was created from a fabrication,” Bill Jacobson, founder of Legal Insurrection and professor of law at Cornell University,...

25.01.2026 40

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson

Why ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ Is the Greatest Book of the 20th Century

On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” David J. Mahoney explains to co-host Jack Fowler why he believes Aleksandr...

24.01.2026 20

The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson