Historian Victor Davis Hanson on the Farmer’s Virtues

Historian Victor Davis Hanson on the Farmer’s Virtues
Davis Hanson in his study room. Samira Bouaou
Channaly Philipp
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It’s nearly a 200-mile commute home for historian Victor Davis Hanson from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he travels once a week, to his quiet family farm in the fertile Central Valley of California.

As a classicist, he’s at ease with the ancient world but often brings a historian’s insightful perspective to current events. And he’s also a fifth-generation farmer.