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VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Civilizational Death or Renewal?

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers History is replete with examples of societies in crises that either imploded or were destroyed, through internal and external forces—as well as those that met such dangers and endured. Life or Death? Controversies remain over why the Western Roman Empire broke apart by the end of the 5th-century AD, […]

VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Assessing America in the Age of Woke

9 Comments / June 19, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two Culturally The Left has atomized traditionalist American culture. Campus curricula are designed to indoctrinate and graduate cultural Marxists. Society itself is already seeing the result in a general decline in services and professions as the academic quality of college graduates continues to erode. When we get official