What has your trip to campus this year looked like? “I’ve never been more hurried. I will be here for 14 days, and I teach a three-and-a-half hour class on World War II four days a week. Yesterday I met with the Alexander Hamilton Society. And then I have to write about 3,000 words a...
Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a military historian, and a visiting professor at Hillsdale College. His latest book is “The Case for Trump.” He gave a lecture at Hillsdale College on Wednesday titled “Plague, Panic, and Protests—The Weird Election Year of 2020.” The past few months...
With all the talk about Russia these days, one might forget that there are other countries that pose a threat to the United States — a far greater threat, perhaps. That’s the point Victor Davis Hanson, a visiting scholar from the Hoover Institution, made last Thursday during the Alexander Hamilton Society’s first event of the...
When Germany invaded Poland, Adolf Hitler believed the war would simply be a border war. However, once Germany invaded the Soviet Union, things changed. At least, according to historian Victor Davis Hanson, who presented his speech “How a Border War in Europe Led to World War II” to more than 400 students, faculty, and campus...
Victor Davis Hanson is the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College where he teaches a course on history and classical culture every fall. He is also the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Hanson spoke at...