If you aren't following Victor Davis Hanson, you should be. You can find his website, The Blade of Perseus, linked here (and on this blog's sidebar). Here's a caveat that if you start listening to his regularly posted podcasts, you'll receive so much solid information that you'll rapidly become addicted to his next offering.
Hanson's latest written piece, "The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization," is a sobering analysis of just how much trouble our society is in. The rot within our nation is in our faces, everyday.
As a recent example, consider the murder of FDNY EMT Lt. Alison Russo Elling, a first responder on September 11, 2001, who was looking forward to retirement. She was stabbed to death as she walked in uniform, one block from her station house, to buy lunch.
As Hanson often states on his podcasts when discussing such brutal events, "This is unsustainable." He is one brave voice crying out in our wilderness of chaos.
If you listen to Hanson, you'll know history. And if you know history, you'll know he is right.
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| The body of Lt. Russo-Elling with FDNY escort |
