Civilization

Ancient Virtues and Modern Sins

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Candor Aside from courage — the essential trait without which, as the ancients insisted, all other virtues are impossible — candor is now the most appreciated. Share This

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Young Westerners–Deprives or Decadent?

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services A once civil and orderly England was recently torn apart by rioting and looting — at first by mostly minority youth, but eventually also by young Brits in general. Share This

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Paralytic Western Society

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner It is fascinating to see how postmodern Western societies react to wide-scale rioting, looting, and thuggery aimed at innocents. Share This

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Foreign Thoughts

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Editor’s Note: These passages are drawn from recent articles on The Corner. Mexifornia, Quite Literally! “I love this country, it has given me everything that I have, and I’m proud to be part of it,” said Victor Sanchez, a 37-year-old Monrovia resident wearing a Mexico jersey. “But yet, I didn’t …

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An American Versailles

The liberal message ia all style and impotence. by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Editor’s Note: What follows is a collection of recent Corners from VDH. The Shape of 2012 to Come The outburst from Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the so-called Shanghai Cooperation Organization should close the chapter on the much bandied about “outreach” to Iran voiced …

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What We Might Remember This Memorial Day

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online  The world is a better place because Adolf Hitler did not preserve his conquest of the European continent, and because the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere of Hideki Tojo and his militarists imploded at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Share This

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The World Turned Upside Down–Again

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Every once in a while, the world is turned upside down in just a few years, whether by ideological ferment or force of arms. Share This

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The Fragility of Complex Societies

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Thoughts on Japan There is no more ordered, successful and humane urban society than found in Japan. Share This

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The Triumph of the Therapeutic Mind

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Beyond the political posturing over state and federal budgets, there looms an age-old philosophical divide over human nature, perhaps defined as the therapeutic versus the tragic view of our existence. Share This

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