Victor David Hanson, Signs of Decay, Fears of Decline

Victor David Hanson   Part One – June 6, 2023   We can calibrate the decline in the quality of American life by comparisons to both societies of the past and contemporary civilization elsewhere. And the result is not encouraging for Americans.   I believe I may have visited 80 percent of the so-called first world countries in Europe and the Middle East, and in most of the major capitals and large cities—Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Nicosia, Paris, Prague, Rome, Warsaw, etc., as well as the…

Dr. Eowyn, The New York Times admits: Democrat-run cities are unlivable

Dr. Eowyn Dr. Drew predicts major epidemic in filthy Los Angeles this summer The filthy conditions of Democrat-run U.S. cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are so alarming that even the New York Times is acknowledging that fact. On May 22, 2019, the New York Times published an op/ed, “America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals,” by the paper’s opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo, calling “progressives” hypocrites for abandoning “progressive values in their own backyards”. (H/t FOTM reader Big Lug) Manjoo writes: When the cost of living is taken into account, billionaire-brimming California ranks as the most…