This is CBS High in the World.

I'm John Batser with Victory Davis Hanson, Professor of Victory Davis Hanson of the Hoover

Institution of Classicist.

His new book is The Dying Citizen, a progressive elites, tribalism and globalization are destroying

the idea of America.

Once upon a time in the Roman Empire, there was a group of people very rich, very male,

the optimates and their wives, all powerful.

And the popularities, the people of Rome, were empowered with limits, with severe limits.

This is during the Republic replaced by the imperial system.

Today, what we have is a situation where the elites of the earth don't even gather in

Washington.

They gather at a Swiss village, which I'm told by people who have been there, it's not

very attractive, called Davos.

And hence Davos Man, Victor, who is what is Davos Man?

And how does he or it or she rule?

These are people who feel that they're singular in their own particular countries.

And they're usually captains of industry, billionaires, members of governments, celebrities,

actors.

They all feel that their own particular country, and they're mostly to be frank in Europe

and in the United States and North America, and to a lesser extent in Japan, etc.

And they feel that because they have been so blessed, they have this singular wisdom

that the way the world should be run, and the world is not being run that way on issues

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