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Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, columnist, and farmer. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for National Review, The Washington Times and other media outlets. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He chairs the Hoover working group on Military History and Contemporary Conflict as well as being the general editor of the Hoover online journal, Strategika. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College where he teaches an intensive course on world, ancient or military history in the autumn semester, as the Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History since 2004. Hanson is the author of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power , a New York Times best-selling book.

Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and was a presidential appointee in 2007–2008 on the American Battle Monuments Commission that oversees the cemeteries of and monuments of U.S. war dead abroad. Hanson is a student of current affairs, particularly regarding the U.S. in the Middle East, national defense issues and illegal immigration. He is also a fifth-generation farmer, growing almonds on a family farm in Selma, California, where he resides, and is a commentator on social trends related to farming and agrarianism.

✵ 5. September 1953   •   Other names ویکتور دیویس هاسون, ヴィクター・デーヴィス・ハンソン
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“[W]hat bothers the New York Times is not racism per se, but who is the racist and who are her targets.”

2010s, The Double Standards of Postmodern Justice (2018)

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“War itself is not a mere science but a more fickle sort of thing, often subject to fate or chance, being an entirely human enterprise…”

2000s, A War Like No Other - How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (2005)

“Every problem has a resolution — but often not a good one.”

2010s, Fundamentally Transformed (2016)

“It is time to step back from the apartheid brink…”

2010s, Diversity: History's Pathway to Chaos (2016)

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