JOHN: I welcome Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, writing most recently in American Greatness. I am following Victor's identification of cultural collapse these last years: perhaps purposeful, perhaps a remnant of chaos.
It's alarming to read that the dollar is in trouble. That the credit of the United States is unworthy. The question is, is this purposeful on the part of those in authority in Washington and across the culture? Do they want to undermine our confidence in our prosperity?
VICTOR: I don't have the answer to that because so many things are inexplicable. The border is wide open. All of our cultural reference, William Penn to Shakespeare, to servants or statues or references, have been changed or taken down. And we have three genders instead of two. So it's a cultural revolution.
But I don't see the tangible results yet, because it's superimposed on a border that doesn't exist. A budget that's two trillion in deficit, thirty-five trillion national debt. We're heading toward foreign policies, disasters like Afghanistan. Crime is rising. The whole statute, the whole idea of jurisprudence is under attack. So we're in a revolutionary time. But I think everybody's worried because the center is not holding. There's no referent that they've grown up with or that they've known that's not under attack by this Jacobin movement.
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The End of Everything by Victor Davis Hanson on Amazon
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Cultural Collapse with Victor Davis Hanson