Victor Davis Hanson Warns of Cultural Collapse
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Guests: Victor Davis Hanson, Jay W. Richards, & Jeremiah Regan
Host Scot Bertram talks with Victor Davis Hanson, the Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, about America’s recent decline and his article “A Culture in Collapse.” Jay W. Richards, director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation, discusses the unlikely coalition of believers and non-believers against gender ideology and his new book Fight the Good Fight: How an Alliance of Faith and Reason Can Win the Culture War. And Jeremiah Regan, recent graduate of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale College, summarizes his dissertation on the manly virtues of the American Founding.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:24.8 | When Texas closes their border with bobwire and people start to re-examine sanctuary cities, it doesn't mean that the influxes stopped. |
| 0:34.6 | We're having some record-level, illegal entries at the San Diego |
| 0:38.5 | border in Southern California. This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the Radio |
| 0:43.6 | Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. And that's Dr. Victor |
| 0:49.4 | Davis Hanson, the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale |
| 0:53.9 | College, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and also author of the upcoming book, The End of Everything, How Wars Descend into Annihilation. We talk in depth with Dr. Hansen today about two recent essays about American culture. Dr. Hansen, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:13.6 | Look forward to our talk today and also look forward to talking soon when the end of everything |
| 1:18.2 | is released. We talked today about a couple of your recent writings, one at American Greatness |
| 1:23.9 | called A Culture in Collapse and a recent column, American Paralysis and Decline. |
| 1:30.1 | In that piece, you begin by telling us about the Roman Republic, reaching this point where the |
| 1:35.6 | very idea of what was needed for restoration, the hard medicine, and the reaction to it made |
| 1:42.2 | it impossible to save the patient. |
| 1:45.0 | Here we are today talking about cookie monster and shrinkflation and perhaps arguing of parsing, polling data. |
| 1:53.6 | When must we? |
| 1:55.5 | Is it too far to get to the point where we return to serious discussions about our republic? |
| 2:03.2 | Pretty soon. |
| 2:04.7 | And I quoted the historian Libyan, he continues on with the analysis, but the problem is, |
| 2:11.8 | it's not just that you think the medicine is more dangerous or more discomfort, brings more to comfort than the disease, but the |
| 2:22.2 | violation of norms has led to a unsustainable but enjoyable affluence leisure. |
| 2:29.6 | And people know that that can, like an addiction of some type of habitual drug or something or activity, |
| 2:35.9 | they know it can't continue, but it's very enjoyable while it can. |
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