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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once upon a time long ago, we agreed there were certain immutable laws of human nature. These laws were based on facts, reality, and data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, we accepted common sense about the way the world worked according to logical and even \u201cscientific\u201d principles. That assumption defined us as \u201cenlightened\u201d rather than Dark Age reductionists and ideological- or myth-driven zealots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not now. \u201cProgressives,\u201d especially the media, are most often regressive, anti-Enlightenment, and intolerant people, who start with a deductive premise and then make the evidence conform to it\u2014or else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Once upon a time long ago, we agreed there were certain immutable laws of human nature. These laws were based on facts, reality, and data.  In other words, we accepted common sense about the way the world worked according to logical and even \u201cscientific\u201d principles. 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