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The Ungracious—and Their Demonization of the Past

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The Ungracious—and Their Demonization of the Past
A worker cleans a statue of President Thomas Jefferson inside the Capitol on Aug. 4, 2021. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
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The past two years have seen an unprecedented escalation in a decades-long war on the American past. But there are a lot of logical flaws in attacking prior generations in U.S. history.

Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
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