An impersonator of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin walks past a hammer-and-sickle red flag in central Moscow on Nov. 21, 2016. Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”