{"id":11549,"date":"2018-12-03T13:32:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11549"},"modified":"2018-12-03T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:32:54","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-on-contemporary-american-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-on-contemporary-american-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson On Contemporary American Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution<\/p>\n<p>Traditional values, whether manifested in public policy or contemporary culture, are besieged in today\u2019s America but can still be found in the right places, says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/profiles\/victor-davis-hanson\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/\">Hoover Institution<\/a>. His focus is on classics and military history. Last year, Hanson won the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/news\/hanson-wins-edmund-burke-award\">2018 Edmund Burke Award<\/a>, which honors people who have made major contributions to the defense of Western civilization. He is the author of the forthcoming book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Case-Trump-Victor-Davis-Hanson\/dp\/1541673549\">The Case for Trump<\/a><\/em>, and most recently\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Second-World-Wars-Global-Conflict\/dp\/0465066984\">The Second World Wars.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hanson was recently interviewed on the subject of traditional culture, public policy, and American culture, which he also wrote about in a\u00a0<em>National Review<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/11\/1960s-cultural-political-agenda-institutionalized\/\">essay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where in today\u2019s American society can parents look to find traditional culture\u2014art, literature, the humanities\u2014for their children?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The progressive agenda has largely captured popular culture, the media, entertainment, sports, and the university, so one must look to traditional atolls and castles\u2014formally, colleges like Hillsdale, for institutional support the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradleyfdn.org\/\">Bradley Foundation<\/a>, cultural and political journals such as\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/\">The New Criterion<\/a><\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/\">American Greatness<\/a><\/em>, as well as networks of traditional regions, communities, families, and organizations. Home schooling, traditional religion, and charter schools offer refuges\u2014again, we are talking about salvaging a hallowed Western culture that is either rejected, ignored, or defamed by the majority today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/news\/victor-davis-hanson-contemporary-american-society\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution Traditional values, whether manifested in public policy or contemporary culture, are besieged in today\u2019s America but can still be found in the right places, says\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson. Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the\u00a0Hoover Institution. His focus is on classics and military history. Last year, [&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":[1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-30h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11838,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-us-china-confrontation-will-define-global-order\/","url_meta":{"origin":11549,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: US-China Confrontation Will Define Global Order","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The United States is at a crossroads with an increasingly aggressive China, which could define America\u2019s security and the international order for decades to come, Hoover scholar\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson\u00a0says.Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the\u00a0Hoover Institution, studies military history and the classics. 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