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What the January 6 Committee Might Have Been

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What the January 6 Committee Might Have Been — From left, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.); Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol; and Vice Chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), during a hearing in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington on June 13, 2022. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Victor Davis Hanson

6/17/2022|Updated: 12/29/2023

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Commentary

Congress should investigate fully the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol—and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites.

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Victor Davis Hanson

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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.”