Commentary
Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises. Yet they are all self-inflicted—and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides.
Elderly women sit in a park in Thessaloniki on Sept. 11, 2025. A dramatic decline in the student population has led to the closure of hundreds of schools across Greece, Education Ministry data have confirmed. Greece's population has shrunk by more than 400,000 over the past 13 years, driven by declining birth rates, an aging population, and outward migration, according to data published on August. Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
Author
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.”
