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Let Down at the Top

by Victor Davis Hanson//National Review   Our Baby Boomer elites, mired in excess and safe in their enclaves, have overseen the decay of our core cultural institutions.   Since the Trojan War, generations have always trashed their own age in comparison to ages past. The idea of fated decadence and decline was a specialty of […]

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Trump’s Constructive Chaos

by Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas Almost daily, President Trump manages to incense the media, alarm the world abroad, and enrage his Democratic opposition. Not since Ronald Reagan’s first year in office has change and disruption come so fast from the White House. Let’s consider foreign affairs first. In response to North Korea’s nuclear threats

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Status Quo Blues

by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review   The public is turning away from the institutions that used to unite Americans — the NFL, mainstream news, late-night TV, movies . . .   The familiar cultural order of the last half-century is crumbling — partly because of larger forces beyond its control, partly from self-inflicted wounds,

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The Glass House of the NFL

by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review   The league’s national significance is rapidly diminishing, due to hypocrisy and hyper-politicization in a once-loved American establishment.   The National Football League is a glass house that was cracking well before Donald Trump’s criticism of players who refuse to stand during the national anthem.   The NFL earned

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The Progressive Octopus

Politics lost, culture won. By Victor Davis Hanson National Review It is the best and worst of times for progressives and liberals. Politically, their obsessions with identity politics and various racial and gender -isms and -ologies have emasculated the Democratic party: loss of governorships, state legislatures, the House, the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme

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Linguistic McCarthyism

By Victor Davis Hanson National Review Most Americans recoil from the statue-smashers and name-changers. ‘The Bard,” William Shakespeare, had a healthy distrust of the sort of mob hysteria typified by our current epidemics of statue-busting and name-changing. In Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Caesar — a story adopted from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives — a frenzied Roman mob,

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Monasteries of the Mind

When everything is politicized, people retreat into mental mountaintops — dreams of the past and fantasies of the future. by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review So long, it’s been good to know ya, So long, it’s been good to know ya, So long, it’s been good to know ya. This dusty old dust is a-gettin’

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