Victor Davis Hanson is a noted historian and social critic whose philosophies are rooted in classicism. An author, contributing editor and professor, Victor Davis Hanson writes a world affairs column syndicated by Tribune Media Services. Victor Davis Hanson received his Ph.D in Classics from Stanford University in 1980. Victor Davis Hanson is a Professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, a Senior Fellow in Residence at the Hoover Institution and a fellow of Hillsdale College. In 1991, Victor Davis Hanson was awarded an American Philological Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Victor Davis Hanson was a visiting professor of Classics at Stanford University from 1991 - 1993 and a visiting professor of military history at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland during the 2002 - 2003 academic year. Victor Davis Hanson is the author of more than 350 articles, book reviews and newspaper editorials on Greek agrarian, the military and contemporary culture. Victor Davis Hanson has written or edited 15 books, including "Warfare and Agriculture," "The Western Way of War," "The Soul of Battle" and "Fields Without Dreams." Victor Davis Hanson's book, "Land Was Everything" was a Pen semi-finalist in 2000 his book and "Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power" appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List. In 2002, Victor Davis Hanson received the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism. Victor Davis Hanson is a contributing editor to Arion, the Military History Quarterly and City Journal. Victor Davis Hanson's editorials and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Wilson Quarterly, the Weekly Standard, the National Review, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, City Journal, the Washington Times and Country Living. Victor Davis Hanson has been interviewed on National Public Radio and has appeared on the news hours of PBS, CSNBC, MSNBC and Fox. A native to farming, Victor Davis Hanson lives on a forty-acre tree and vine farm near Selma, California. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:01:00 GMT Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Who caused the American financial panic and the wild swings in our financial system -- and what are we going to do about it in the long term after the markets settle down? Republicans point to Fannie Mae and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/10/16/its_the_debt,_stupid 1544e556-088d-4632-bb24-22b4b3eef5c7 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:01:00 GMT Until the past few weeks, the financial panic was still mostly far away on Wall Street. But not now. Car loans, mortgages and college financing are suddenly harder to come by. Millions are stuck in houses not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/10/09/wall_street_101 0fe1bdfc-f19b-461c-adf5-3e34fac5bbac Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:01:00 GMT Ancient thinkers from Thucydides to Cicero insisted that money was the real source of military power and national influence. We've been reminded of that classical wisdom these last three weeks. In a manner not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/10/02/americas_nervous_breakdown_-_and_the_worlds f2f6c602-4092-4fb9-9ce1-b83625bba2b3 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:01:00 GMT When the mortgage bubble burst, Americans were "shocked" at how many Wall Street buccaneers had been gambling in a vast pyramid scheme with someone else's money. Paper fortunes were made buying and selling questionable... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/09/25/dr_frankensteins_wall_street 016ba8fb-0c4c-4967-8391-14cdde05baf7 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT The media went hysterical over Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and Republican nominee for vice president. She may have appeared to the public as an independent, capable professional woman, but to a particular elite she... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/09/11/what_was_feminism 77947ce3-7214-4282-9254-d1b2c12d7f42 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT The 2008 presidential campaign is supposed to be a referendum on "change" -- who brings it and who doesn't. Real change, however, hasn't yet proven to mean new politics. The "hope and change" Barack Obama sounds... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/09/04/want_real_change_quit_nominating_lawyers! 12c9aa35-ef8d-40b1-b39b-d4fabbd61c5a Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT When I was growing up in the 1960s, we had a majestic Santa Rosa plum orchard on my family's farm. The trees were 40 years old and had grown to over 20 feet high. My grandfather would proudly recall how its once-bumper... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/08/28/farewell,_nato bfc6810c-e154-40b2-a7a9-e84cd1554d79 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Everyone is distracted by the Olympics. The squabbling here on the campaign trail consumes the media. Two presidential candidates and a lame-duck president all are weighing in on foreign policy. No wonder Vladimir Putin... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/08/21/blame_everyone_but_russia! 0f9e1ac2-a14d-46be-a253-1cfaeb3130c7 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Russia invades Georgia. China jails dissidents. China and India pollute at levels previously unimaginable. Gulf monarchies make trillions from jacked-up oil prices. Islamic terrorists keep car bombing. Meanwhile, Europe... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/08/14/brave_old_world b9b6d1bf-10f5-4772-b792-be22af01433d Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Barack Obama and John McCain are running neck and neck. Impossible? It would seem so. Republican President Bush still has less than a 30 percent approval rating. Headlines blare that unemployment and inflation are up... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/08/07/hillarys_growing_shadow fc14b687-e6d6-409c-909a-b15a5cdda6d2 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT There is a growing confidence among officers, diplomats and politicians that a constitutional Iraq is going to make it. We don't hear much anymore of trisecting the country, much less pulling all American troops out in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/07/31/what_if_iraq_works 808ff47a-0278-441f-9de0-6955095a2173 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT What more can anyone say about the 1960s and all its legacies? Those who protested some 40 years ago often still congratulate themselves that their loud zeal alone brought needed "change" to America in civil rights,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/07/24/the_60s_wont_go_away 94c9c749-739e-4e5e-89a9-6e309df802fe Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:01:35 GMT In the last 20 years, we were lectured constantly about "post-industrial" America. Experts proclaimed that the United States had evolved into an "information society" of "high-tech jobs." The traditional sources of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/07/17/america_is_not_post-anything dd66b9b9-30ca-4593-a853-8f2b855420b0 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Almost everyone is talking about Barack Obama's flip-flops, as the Senate's most liberal member steadily moves to the political center and disowns firebrands like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger. But... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/07/10/barack_w_bush a47cc08d-f386-4ed6-986b-f9b0fd54973f Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT One way to envision the McCain-Obama presidential race is as a boxing match -- particularly like the famous Mohammed Ali championship fights. The deliberate McCain is like a Sonny Liston or George Foreman trying to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/07/02/imagining_the_election 6727150f-6940-40df-bd81-6b781d96946c Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:19:59 GMT By this point in the presidential campaign, the public knows that a charismatic Barack Obama wants sweeping "change." While the national media have often fallen hard for the Illinois senator's rhetoric -- MSNBC's Chris... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/06/19/obama_promises_change_-_but_what_kind ed60d9d7-776c-486a-9ad9-69b383901383 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT The other day in southwestern Fresno County, a poor part of Central California, I talked with a number of folks at a rural gas station. Most drove second- and third-hand pickups, large cast-off sedans or used SUVs.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/06/12/do_the_right_thing_start_drilling! 3e10fd65-2958-4c3c-bbac-cb279f7e188a Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT NORMANDY, France -- Questioning the past is a good thing, but rewriting it contrary to facts is quite another. In the latest round of revisionism about the Second World War, the awful British and naive Americans, not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/06/05/the_bad_war c843eb15-2a7e-4949-a825-ca55fc85f757 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Here is how our baby-boom generation solves problems: - Recently, George Bush went to Saudi Arabia to ask the ruling House of Saud to pump more oil. That request had about as much chance of success as the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/05/29/all_about_me 2a836815-073f-40d4-ae39-365663c858c6 Thu, 29 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Who becomes a general - and why - tells us a lot about whether our military is on the right or wrong track. The annual spring list of Army colonels promoted to brigadier generals will be shortly released. Already,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/05/22/do_we_still_have_grants_and_shermans 1c4ee52b-64ae-46e8-bd7c-165f8e809233 Thu, 22 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT The war in Iraq is in its sixth year -- and we, the public, are in our sixth year of reading warring accounts about it. The most recent is Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's "Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story." Sanchez, a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/05/15/the_war_over_the_war 6e99dcd3-6f25-41f4-b28f-f551fda27915 Thu, 15 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT We are in one of the longest presidential campaigns in modern memory -- and haven't even started focusing on the general election. It's been enough to drive most of us mad, but if there's one person in particular... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/05/08/presidential_pariah 39477bba-1cdb-4077-9032-dd0467264d23 Thu, 08 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT The gloomy election-year refrain is that America is mired in Iraq, took its eye off Afghanistan, empowered Iran and is losing the war on terror. But how accurate is that pessimistic diagnosis? First, the good news. For... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/05/01/the_half-won,_half-lost_war c379d2b5-068a-4bfd-b157-3047f85d73bd Thu, 01 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Tuesday was Earth Day, and it reminded us how environmentalism has helped to preserve the natural habitat of the United States -- reducing the manmade pollution of our soils, air and water that is a byproduct of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/04/24/a_new_environmentalism 58a243ef-39dd-4d94-bb77-55f67a6ecf16 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT It is only four months into 2008, but the presidential campaign -- already too long and nasty -- is still a long way from over. And the casualties are mounting. First, George Bush's popularity remains dismal --... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/04/17/casualties_of_the_campaign e722e5a2-b967-4e1e-99ac-8b47f69955b1 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT These days Democrats are not sounding very liberal. Classic liberals, after all, would support free markets, internationalism and the universal desire for constitutional government, while downplaying racial affinity.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/04/10/where_have_all_the_liberals_gone f5153a36-d2d0-440c-98dc-6a59f0c6fee5 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT 2008 was supposed to have been an ideal year for the Democratic Party. There's an unpopular, lame-duck Republican president presiding over an iffy economy and an unpopular war. Plus, the Democrats won big in the 2006... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/04/03/the_year_that_wasnt 1a41650f-8661-49a7-b358-d24437f95e32 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT Had Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., just said the following words last week in his speech on race in America, his problems with his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would probably now be over: "You have all heard the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/03/27/a_speech_sen_obama_could_have_given 38a090d2-ed0b-4264-bfc3-7e164709b603 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT "I think the magic is over." That's what French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner recently said about the United States' global reputation. It's never been a great idea to rely on the assessments of French... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/03/20/hope_and_change_amid_despair 832e2e8a-3edd-48ac-a930-e09505697701 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT Gaza erupted in celebration last week to the news that a Palestinian had murdered Jewish religious students in Jerusalem. And almost daily terrorists send rockets from Gaza into nearby Israeli cities, hoping to kill... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/03/13/the_tired_gaza_two-step 011fd6ed-3c09-4bc2-b686-d21757507d88 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT When President George Bush leaves office, will America once again be liked by most of the world? Not necessarily, since most current problems are either already getting better or not our fault. When the next... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/02/28/the_world_in_2009 75179ba0-e00f-4420-9233-02357a1fe088 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT The rhetoric of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton about the sad state of America is reminiscent of the suspect populism of John Edwards, the millionaire lawyer who recently dropped out of the Democratic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2008/02/21/ivy_league_populism 42d23428-afe7-4809-8fbc-d76fca1b83a6 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT