{"id":12250,"date":"2020-03-17T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12250"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:15:54","slug":"america-in-a-new-upside-down-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/america-in-a-new-upside-down-world\/","title":{"rendered":"America In a New Upside-Down World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world is changing at a pace not seen in years, and it is no time to become captives of fear despite the real and immediate dangers we face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coronavirus and the ensuing panic, at least for a few more weeks, have stagnated the economy and scared global financial markets, accompanied by both collateral, and independent and simultaneous, bad news. Rumor- and panic-mongers predominate; the rational and reasonable are written-off as na\u00efve and out of it. Thousands may die, but millions who will not are terrified into anxieties and sleeplessness that they will.<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/03\/15\/america-in-a-new-upside-down-world\/link\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID-19 itself has raised fundamental questions about the merits of globalization in general, and in particular the wisdom of any sovereign nation outsourcing key industries like high-tech, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and food processing to an autocratic, non-transparent\u2014and dangerous\u2014nation like China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/03\/15\/america-in-a-new-upside-down-world\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The world is changing at a pace not seen in years, and it is no time to become captives of fear despite the real and immediate dangers we face. The coronavirus and the ensuing panic, at least for a few more weeks, have stagnated the economy and scared global [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3bA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12272,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-logic-of-pottersville\/","url_meta":{"origin":12250,"position":0},"title":"The Logic of Pottersville","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In\u00a0director Frank Capra\u2019s 1946 holiday classic movie\u00a0It\u2019s a Wonderful Life, an initial bank panic sweeps the small town of Bedford Falls. 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