{"id":8699,"date":"2013-06-19T15:13:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/19\/the-new-american-enemies-list\/"},"modified":"2013-06-19T15:13:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:13:35","slug":"the-new-american-enemies-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/19\/the-new-american-enemies-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The New American Enemies List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson writes yet another report<\/a> on the Decline of the West.  This owl of Minerva catalogs and explains from the comfort and security of his Hoover Institution perch, but I would like to hear some suggestions from him as to what can be done to stop or slow down the slide.  Perhaps nothing.  Perhaps all we have are the pleasures of scribbling and understanding.  Hanson and I are now old men who have it made.  Twilight time is not so bad as long as health and eyesight hold out, as long as one's faculties permit the enjoyment of the vita contemplativa<\/em>.  The life of otium liberale<\/em> is delicious indeed.   It ain't dark yet<\/a>, and we have a few years left.  We can hope to be dead before unbearable night. <\/span><\/p>\n

But what about the young?  What can they do, Victor?  And how can we help them? <\/span><\/p>\n

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Victor Davis Hanson writes yet another report on the Decline of the West.  This owl of Minerva catalogs and explains from the comfort and security of his Hoover Institution perch, but I would like to hear some suggestions from him as to what can be done to stop or slow down the slide.  Perhaps nothing.  Perhaps … Continue reading “The New American Enemies List”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}