{"id":13202,"date":"2021-04-23T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13202"},"modified":"2021-04-22T18:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:23:26","slug":"how-much-ruin-do-we-have-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-much-ruin-do-we-have-left\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Ruin Do We Have Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any nation\u2019s well-being\u2014as Americans know from their own illustrious history\u2014hinges on only a few factors. Its prosperity, freedom, and stability depend on its constitutional and political stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A secure currency and financial order are also essential, as is a strong military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps most important, however, is a first-rate, inductive educational system. Of course, nothing is possible without general social calm, often dependent on a reverence for the past, along with present secure borders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ability to produce or easily acquire food, fuel, and key natural resources ensures a nation\u2019s independence and autonomy.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately in the last few months all of those centuries-old reasons to be confident in American strength and resiliency have now been put into doubt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/04\/21\/how-much-ruin-do-we-have-left\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Any nation\u2019s well-being\u2014as Americans know from their own illustrious history\u2014hinges on only a few factors. Its prosperity, freedom, and stability depend on its constitutional and political stability. A secure currency and financial order are also essential, as is a strong military. Perhaps most important, however, is a first-rate, inductive [&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-3qW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12510,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumps-reactive-engagement\/","url_meta":{"origin":13202,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#8217;s Reactive Engagement","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The United States and indeed the Western world face four quite different challenges on the horizon: China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea. 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