Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He was a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has also been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004.

Prof. Hanson is a prolific author of such books as The Case for Trump, The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, Culture and Carnage: Landmark Battles in the Rise of-Western Power, and numerous others.

Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. He is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism.

Articles by this Author

Wars of Annihilation, November/December 2024 | Vol. 69, No. 5

With bloody conflicts in so many hot spots around the world, we should remember that the erasures of civilizations are not mere memories from a distant past.

The Impeachment of Trump is Divisive and Unnecessary, February/March 2021 | Vol. 66, No. 2

What is this latest impeachment gambit really about? Of course, it is meant to discredit President Trump’s supporters and perhaps stop him from running for president again.

The Longest War, February/March 2002 | Vol. 53, No. 1

The fight we’re in didn’t begin on September 11; it started thousands of years ago. It’s the struggle between East and West, and history can both encourage and help us—if we read it properly.

The Meaning of Tet, May 2001 | Vol. 52, No. 3

A historian argues that, in Vietnam, America’s cause was just, its arms effective, and its efforts undermined by critics back home, and that this is how things must work in a free society.

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