A lot of these cultural crimes I've been complaining about can be blamed on the baby boomers.

These people were given everything. Everything was handed to them.

And they took it all, took it all. Sex, drugs and rock and roll, and they stayed loaded for 20 years and had a free ride.

But now they're staring down the barrel of middle-aged burnout, and they don't like it.

They don't like it.

So they turn self-righteous, and they want to make things hard on younger people.

They tell them have stained from sex.

Say no to drugs.

As for the rock and roll, they sold that for television commercials a long time ago.

It's Tuesday, September the 24th, 2024, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover

institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen.

I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow, and I'll be your moderator today.

Join by two of our regular Goodfellows, that would be the economist John Cochran and the geostrategist,

Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster. We're going to have to do without Neil Ferguson today,

but that's Neil's loss because we have a very special guest today, joining us, a Goodfellow's fan favorite, the one and only Victor Davis Hansen. In case you don't know who Victor Davis

Hansen is, let me briefly explain. Victor is the Martin Ely Anderson senior fellow here at the

Hoover Institution, a frequent guest on TV, prolific columnist, and he is also now a podcaster

in his own right, the Victor Davis Hanson Show. If that's not enough, he also has a website,

Victor Hanson.com. It's VDH's Blade of Perseus.

Victor, I'm very curious if you're Perseus, what Medusa

you're trying to slay. But maybe we could get that in the show.

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