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The American Descent into Madness

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794. After the election of November 1860, in a matter of weeks, Americans went from thinking secession

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Class — The Word We Dare Not Speak

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness How often during the last year of woke, have middle- and lower-class Americans listened to multimillionaires of all races and genders lecture them on their various pathologies and oppressions?  Million-dollar-a year university presidents virtue signal on the cheap their own sort of “unearned white privilege.”  Multimillionaire Meghan Markle and

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Trump Winds and Biden Whirlwinds

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Victimizers quickly becoming victims is a recurrent theme of Thucydides’ history. In his commentary on the so-called stasis at Corcyra, he offers his most explicit warning about the long-term dangers of destroying legal institutions, customs, and traditions that serve the common good for short-term gain.  The historian notes that in the

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