Victor Davis Hanson has been everywhere, lately, it seems, and he has been writing at a tremendous clip. (I don’t know how a man of his years can maintain such a pace.)
Here’s a jeremiad of his, from a couple of weeks ago, that I’d overlooked until now: Epitaph for a Dying Culture. (There’s nothing in it, really, that we haven’t been saying here for ages, but it’s a nice summary from one of our leading gloominaries.)
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“We Are Living Nineteen Eighty-Four”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/kavanaugh-nomination-battle-like-orwells-1984/
Part of the problem is that our elites are not interested in Western Civilization the way they once were. Harry Truman, although he never went to college, was very well-read in history and applied its lessons throughout his career. (“The only things that are new is the history you don’t know,” he once quipped.) JFK was not really a Catholic in my mind but instead a Stoic and a Epicurean, one who constantly looked to the ancient Greeks for examples. He liked to paraphrase Aristotle by saying that happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. Sadly, this respect for the West doesn’t seem to exist as much now among many of our “best and brightist.”