Victor Davis Hanson

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Author | Scholar | Historian | Sr. Fellow — Hoover Institution

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and chairs the Military History Working Group. He is an American scholar of ancient and modern warfare and has been a commentator on contemporary politics for various media outlets. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno, and the annual Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Visiting Fellow in History at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and was a recipient of the Bradley Prize in 2008. Hanson is also a farmer and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author of numerous books.

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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is historically rare—and was among America’s...

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September 8, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Birth Rate Effects

Last month, Jim Geraghty wrote about the “Five Non-Debt Problems That the U.S. Government is Largely Ignoring.” Most of those problems resulted from the decline in the U.S. birth rate. He documents ho...

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September 7, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Labor Day

Today is Labor Day. Although this day was set aside to honor trade and labor organizations, I believe it is a day when Christians can also consider how they view work and labor.

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