{"id":11415,"date":"2018-09-22T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11415"},"modified":"2018-09-22T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T01:00:06","slug":"are-we-on-the-verge-of-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/are-we-on-the-verge-of-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We on the Verge of Civil War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span>mericans keep dividing into two hostile camps.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the country is back to 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, rather than in 2018, during the greatest age of affluence, leisure, and freedom in the history of civilization.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient historian Thucydides called the civil discord that tore apart the fifth-century\u00a0<span class=\"small_caps\">b.c.<\/span>\u00a0Greek city-states \u201cstasis.\u201d He saw stasis as a bitter civil war between the revolutionary masses and the traditionalist middle and upper classes.<\/p>\n<p>Something like that ancient divide is now infecting every aspect of American life.<\/p>\n<p>Americans increasingly are either proud of past U.S. traditions, ongoing reform, and current American exceptionalism, or they insist that the country was hopelessly flawed at its birth and must be radically reinvented to rectify its original sins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/09\/american-divide-culture-politicization-polarization\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Americans keep dividing into two hostile camps. It seems the country is back to 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, rather than in 2018, during the greatest age of affluence, leisure, and freedom in the history of civilization. The ancient historian Thucydides called the civil discord that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1132,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Y7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12169,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-there-is-no-normal\/","url_meta":{"origin":11415,"position":0},"title":"When There Is No Normal","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review One of the ancient and modern critiques of democracy is that radicals destroy norms for short-term political gain, norms that they themselves often later seek as refuge. 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