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Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and has written extensively on ancient warfare, Western civilization, and contemporary politics.
Known for: The Case for Trump, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
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The Case for Trump
In this book, historian Victor Davis Hanson presents a scholarly yet provocative defense of Donald J. Trump’s presidency. Hanson argues that Trump’s unconventional style and populist approach were nec...
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
In The Dying Citizen, historian Victor Davis Hanson argues that the concept of citizenship, once the foundation of Western democracy, is being eroded by globalism, tribalism, and the rise of unelected...
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The Political Establishment
When analyzing the institutional framework that birthed the Trump rebellion, I begin with what I call the bipartisan establishment—an alliance of corporate, political, and cultural elites who, in my view, came to believe they transcended accountability. Both parties, Republican and Democratic alike,...
From The Case for Trump
The Forgotten Voter
In the heartland of America—those towns stretching from Appalachia to the Central Valley—resided the people I call the forgotten voter. They were not ideologues; they were pragmatic. They wanted work that paid well, borders that were secure, leaders who respected them. These voters were veterans, tr...
From The Case for Trump
Historical Foundations
Our story begins long before the American republic. In the ancient city-states of Greece and later Rome, citizenship was an innovation that upended older notions of belonging. No longer were individuals mere subjects of a king or members of a tribe; they were autonomous actors responsible for their ...
From The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
The Rise of the Bureaucratic State
The first great internal assault on the old conception of citizenship came not from an external enemy but from the modern administrative state. As bureaucracies expanded across the twentieth century, the citizen’s sphere of responsibility narrowed. Professional managers, regulators, and experts bega...
From The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
About Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and has written extensively on ancient warfare, Western civilization, and contemporary politics.
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