{"id":12665,"date":"2020-10-16T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12665"},"modified":"2020-10-16T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:13:35","slug":"destroying-the-institutions-we-inherited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/destroying-the-institutions-we-inherited\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying the Institutions We Inherited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;the 21st century, hallmark American and international institutions have lost much of their prestige and respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politics and biases explain the lack of public confidence in organizations and institutions such as the World Health Organization, the Commission on Presidential Debates, the Nobel Peace Prize, the Pulitzer Prizes, and the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overseers entrusted with preserving these institutions all caved to short-term political pressures. As a result, they have mostly destroyed what they inherited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization\u2019s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is the first person without a medical degree to hold that position. Why? No one really knows.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/10\/destroying-the-institutions-we-inherited\/\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In&nbsp;the 21st century, hallmark American and international institutions have lost much of their prestige and respect. Politics and biases explain the lack of public confidence in organizations and institutions such as the World Health Organization, the Commission on Presidential Debates, the Nobel Peace Prize, the Pulitzer Prizes, and the [&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-3ih","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12701,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/hanson-elite-media-and-pollsters-culpable-for-erosion-of-trust-in-institutions\/","url_meta":{"origin":12665,"position":0},"title":"Hanson: Elite media and pollsters &#8216;culpable&#8217; for erosion of trust in institutions","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Interview with\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson\u00a0via\u00a0Fox News Watch the latest video at foxnews.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11731,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ivy-league-schools-wither\/","url_meta":{"origin":12665,"position":1},"title":"Ivy-League Schools Wither","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review A\u00a0\u00a0number of liberal bastions are daily being hammered \u2014 especially the elite university and Silicon Valley. 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