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Why Ideology Is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization

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Why Ideology Is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization
After a peaceful march of hundreds to the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on May 29, 2020, protesters returned to the area around the CNN Center and confronted police amid outrage over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution/TNS
Victor Davis Hanson
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What ultimately destroyed the evil empires of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were bankrupt dogmas. Crackpot ideology destroyed free expression. It ruined meritocracy and ensured unequal application of the laws—and so paved the way for far worse.

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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