Victor Davis Hanson

On the 28 August 2020's episode of Victor Davis Hanson's podcast, professor Hanson labeled the recent Republican Convention and President Trump's acceptance speech. The episode further brought the discussion on the motivations of thugs amok-running in American streets.

Similarly, Victor Davis Hanson's concerns on the burning issues of the United States were all poured in the 28 August's episode. It included the talks of political effects of the violence and Joe Biden's response, remarks on Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling's continuing public battle against the cancer culture. 

The Claremont Institute's new podcast series, The American Story and the Bradley Foundation's Conceived in Liberty video series, sponsored the latest episode of the Victor Davis Hanson's podcast.

Who Is Victor Davis Hanson Married To?

Victor Davis Hanson is married to his longtime wife, Cara Webb Hanson. The lovebirds tied their nuptial knot on 18 June 1977 and are together for forty-three years.

While in their nearly four and a half-decades of their married life, Hanson and his wife Cara Webb got blessed with their three children, namely, Pauline Davis Hanson Steinback, William Frank Hanson, and Susannah Hanson.

Victor Davis Hanson and his later daughter, Susannah Hanson (©: publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu)

The lovely pair had a family loss with the sudden death of their daughter, Susannah, in November 2017. Susannah was 27 when she took her last breath. She was a graduate with a BA in European history and a minor in classical studies from the University of California in Santa Cruz. Susannah also had a master's degree in Public Policy (MPP) from Pepperdine University.

Who Is Victor Davis Hanson?

Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and columnist. For several years, Hanson has served as a commentator on ancient, contemporary, and modern warfare politics for several publications, including The Washington Times, National Review, and others. Some of his works/articles are listed below;

1) Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Giardina (Pisa, Italy), 1983, revised edition, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1998.

2) (Editor) Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience, Routledge (New York, NY), 1991.

3) Fields without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea, Free Press (New York, NY), 1996.

4) The Wars of the Ancient Greeks and Their Invention of Western Military Culture, Cassell (London, England), 1999.

5) A War like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, Random House (New York, NY), 2005.

6) Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think, Doubleday (New York, NY), 2003.

Besides that, the 66-year-old classicist is also a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, and visiting professor at Hillsdale College. Moreover, he is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

You can follow him on his official website here, Victor Davis Hanson.

Know More About Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson was born on 5 September 1953 in Fowler, California, in the United States.

Hanson grew up in the San Joaquin Valley, outside Selma, California, in a protestant family. He is a son of Pauline Davis Hanson and her husband, who raised her along with her brother Nels and a fraternal twin Alfred.

His mother was a lawyer and a California superior court, and state appeals court justice while his dad was a farmer and a junior college administrator.