Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; his focus is classics and military history. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

Hanson was previously a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University (1991–92), the Visiting Shifron Professor of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy (2002–3), and the William Simon Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University (2010). Hanson has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Post, National Review, Washington Times, The Washington Post, American Heritage, New Criterion, Daily Telegraph, and has been interviewed on NPR, PBS Newshour, Fox News, and CNN.

Hanson is the author of hundreds of articles, book reviews, and newspaper editorials on Greek, agrarian, and military history and essays on contemporary culture. He has written or edited 24 books, the latest of which is The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America (Basic Books, 2021).