The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing for the poor to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. (p.272)

However he stated in 2008 that he "disagreed with many of the decisions made about the Iraq war" such as the dissolution of the old Iraqi army. United States education and classical studies
Hanson co-authored the book Who Killed Homer? with John Heath. Hanson writes two weekly columns one for National Review and one syndicated by Tribune Media Services and has been publiVictor Davis Hansond in The New York Times The Wall Street Journal Commentary American Heritage City Journal The American Spectator Policy Review the Claremont Review of Books The New Criterion and The Weekly Standard among other publications.

Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5 1953) is an American military historian columnist political essayist and former classics professor a scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a commentator on modern warfare and contemporary politics for National Review and other media outlets. Hanson is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism.