Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is a noted historian and social critic whose philosophies are rooted in classicism, agrarianism, and military history. An author, contributing editor and professor, Hanson writes a world affairs column syndicated by Tribune Media Services.
Hanson received his Ph.D. in classics from Stanford University in 1980, attended the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and graduated with a B.A., with highest honors in classics, from the University of California Santa Cruz. He is a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, a senior fellow in residence in classics and military history at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a fellow of Hillsdale College. In 1991, Hanson was awarded an American Philological Association Excellence in Teaching Award, and received in 1992-3 a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Center for Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Calif. Hanson is the author or editor of more than 350 articles and 16 books, including "Warfare and Agriculture," "The Western Way of War," "The Soul of Battle" and "Fields Without Dreams." His 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; his 2005 history, "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War," was named one of the 100 most notable books of 2005 by the New York Times. In 2002, Hanson received the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Hanson is a contributing editor to Arion, the Military History Quarterly and City Journal. His editorials and reviews have appeared in many periodicals, including the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. He has been interviewed on National Public Radio and has appeared on the news hours of PBS, MSNBC and Fox.
Victor Davis Hanson Samples
The un-Obama
Barack Obama's favorability in the polls falls when he is himself -- overexposed, hard left in his press conferences, and boastful about legislative achievements like Obamacare and a stimulus of more than $1 trillion. Then a strange thing happened.
Fidelity and the presidency
The news media seem obsessed with the serial affairs of a younger Newt Gingrich back in the last century. Do these marital dramas involving our leaders matter that much?
Civilization in reverse
In Greek mythology, the prophetess Cassandra was doomed both to tell the truth and to be ignored.
Defense spending is a shovel-ready investment
President Obama just ordered massive cutbacks in defense spending, eventually to total some $500 billion. Fairly or not, the cuts will only cement a now familiar stereotype of Obama's desire to retrench on the world scene.
2011: Out with a whimper, not a bang
It proved as hard to break up the bankrupt European Union as it was to create it. Meanwhile, the world's failed states, such as Iran, North Korea and Pakistan, just keep on failing.
The new old Europe
Nearly 10 years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld provoked outrage by referring to "Old Europe." Yet the more things change in Europe, the more they stay the same.
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