Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and conservative political commentator, born in 1953 on a farm in Selma, California, where he worked as a full-time farmer before becoming a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, author of numerous books on ancient warfare, agrarian life, and contemporary issues, and a syndicated columnist. Hanson received the National Humanities Medal in 2007 and has held various visiting professorships at institutions like Stanford, Hillsdale College, and the U.S. Naval Academy.