The Classicist

The Classicist With Victor Davis Hanson: “The New Dark-Age Mind”

The West enters an era of intellectual retreat.

The Classicist•June 12, 2015
The Classicist With Victor Davis Hanson: “The New Dark-Age Mind”

Victor Davis Hanson looks at the intellectual pathologies bred by Western affluence.

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Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson

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