Victor Davis Hanson
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Selma, CA
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A classicist and military historian, he is the author of more than 24 books including 'The Case for Trump.'
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian serving as the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he chairs the Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict. He received the National Humanities Medal in 2007 from President George W. Bush and the Bradley Prize in 2008.
Hanson served as a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, where he launched the classical studies program in 1984. He took early retirement in 2004 to focus on political writing and popular history. He has written or edited more than 24 books on topics ranging from classical warfare to contemporary American politics.
A fifth-generation farmer, Hanson owns and operates a family farm in California's Central Valley, where his great-great-grandmother homesteaded 180 acres in 1870. This agrarian background informs his perspective on American working-class concerns and his analysis of the disconnect between elite policy and everyday American life.
Hanson is a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services and a weekly columnist for National Review Online. He has appeared on the Kim Monson Show multiple times to discuss topics including California's decline, political realignment, inflation, and the cultural dynamics underlying contemporary American politics.
Books by Victor Davis Hanson
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3 appearancesMay 27, 2022
Are We a Free Society or a Compliant Society
Allen Thomas on states' rights. Victor Davis Hanson on political realignment. Lauren Fix on the energy crisis. May 27, 2022.
“I can't afford to live. I can't afford rent. This is not political anymore. This is existential.”
May 11, 2022
The World Health Organization and National Sovereignty: Resetting the Great Reset
Dr. Lyons-Weiler warns about FDA vaccine mandates for children. Dr. Victor Davis Hanson analyzes the Great Reset. May 11, 2022.
“They know that their policies are very unpopular. Each of the issues of the border or foreign policy or inflation or oil and gas, they're not achieving 50 percent from the poll. And Joe Biden himself, he's making things work. He's not popular as a person, as a leader. And yet, as ideologues, they would rather be politically correct and unpopular than pragmatic and popular.”
“I think the Democrats just didn't believe it, and now they believe it. And it's going to be very dangerous because in the next four or five months, they are trapped. They're sort of tied on railroad tracks by their own ideological rope, and they can see this locomotive called the midterm election coming right at them.”
October 11, 2019
The Case for Trump and California’s Cautionary Tale
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Victor Davis Hanson analyzes California's decline and Trump's 2016 victory. Kim Monson examines Colorado corporate welfare.
“Everybody wants to go solar, but they haven't figured out when that happens, who's going to pay and how much the monthly fee to keep the power generation lines open for everybody. And the result is they have no money.”
“His supporters felt that they needed chemotherapy to battle the cancer of the administrative state.”
“There's a reason why people are coming to the United States illegally from all over the world. And we better just take a deep breath and understand that's because we're the best country.”
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