The well-intentioned social programs of the 1960s make no sense today.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Ideas of the 1960s have grown reactionary in our world, which is vastly different from the America of a half-century ago. Read more →
Are We Doomed?
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Sometimes societies find themselves in pernicious cycles in which the perceived medicine seems worse than the known disease. The Roman satirist Juvenal lamented the ill effects of free food and free entertainment for the masses (“bread and circuses”) in part because he knew there was no remedy for the pathology in sight — and thus only a slow decline toward fiscal insolvency or riots were on the horizon. Read more →
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