In a controversial passage in Plato’s “Republic,” Socrates introduced the idea of the “noble lie” (gennaios pseudos). A majestic fiction, he says, could sometimes serve… Read More
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Author: Victor Davis Hanson
The Ideology Behind Biden’s Disastrous First 9 Months
Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves… Read More
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Is America Repeating the Cultural Split Between Rome and the Byzantine Empire?
In A.D. 286, the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively—and peacefully—under the control of two emperors. A Western empire included… Read More
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Does Citizenship Mean Much Anymore?
This Columbus Day, October 11, we should expect the now accustomed fury over any commemoration of the European “discovery” of America. Misinformation now seems always to accompany any celebration on this date—as if history must be puerile melodrama rather than tragedy—and as if in childish fashion we are to count up the importation a half-millennium […]
Globalism Won’t Westernize The Planet, It Will Internationalize America
What toxic forces and pernicious ideas have brought American citizenship — a 233-year-old idea able to transcend the conditions of its birth and accept women and those of races and ethnicities different from the majority culture fully into the political commonwealth — to the brink? Today the modern suburban everyman is becoming a nostalgic ideal […]
At Home and Abroad Alike, Civilization Requires Deterrence
Deterrence is the ancient ability to scare somebody off from hurting you, your friends, or your interests—without a major war. Desire peace? Then be prepared… Read More
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