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1/2: #Rome: What do the cities of late antiquity tells us about decline in America? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution.

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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1/2: #Rome: What do the cities of late antiquity tells us about decline in America? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/02/the-woke-wrecking-machine/

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New York City, Manhattan, Chicago, San Francisco, three great cities of the American 20th century,

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now under extreme pressure by disorder.

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Victor Davis Hansen of the Hoover Institution, writing at American greatness and other distinguished publications,

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guides us to how this situation here in the 21st century, spookily resembles the situation of Middle Rome and late Rome,

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Rome itself and Constantinople.

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Victor is a classicist, I most enjoy his description of Rome because 2000 years later,

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our institutions, our style, our personalities are built on the foundation of that city and its offshoot Constantinople.

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Victor, a very good evening to you.

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What happened in Middle and late Rome?

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What happened in Middle and late Constantinople that resembles today?

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Good evening to you.

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Good evening.

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I take the latter first, I mean, Constantinople survived a thousand years, actually 1100 years longer than the Western Empire that fell in the four 70s AD.

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