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Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization

Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization

Column By Mark Steyn The following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 26, 2021, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Franklin, Tennessee. I live about 20 minutes south of the Canadian border, which used to be called the longest undefended frontier in the world. People moved freely back and forth across […]

Victor Davis Hanson: Let Down at the Top

Victor Davis Hanson: Let Down at the Top

By Victor Davis Hanson Our Baby Boomer elites, mired in excess and safe in their enclaves, have overseen the decay of our core cultural institutions. Since the Trojan War, generations have always trashed their own age in comparison to ages past. The idea of fated decadence and decline was a specialty of 19th-century German philosophy. […]