Yes, Victor Hanson is one of the more interesting American classicists, along with Donald Kagan. One of his major contributions is the current understanding of the development of the hoplite as a product of the new middleclass farmer family unit, the
oikos, and its relevance to the emergence of the power structure of the polis, replacing the kings and palace culture of the Mycenaean Greeks.
Interesting tidbit about Donald Kagan is that he turned away from liberalism in 1969 when he witnessed Cornell University being pressured into starting a Black Studies program by gun-wielding black students seizing the student union building on campus: "Watching administrators demonstrate all the courage of Neville Chamberlain had a great impact on me, and I became much more conservative."
A few other good Victor Davis Hanson videos on politics and culture: