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Nov242008

Decline and fall of California

Victor Davis Hanson is what the Romans called a laudator temporis acti. But at least he can write decent English...

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All the old media brands of our youth have been tarnished and all but discredited. No one picks up Harpers or Atlantic expecting to read a disinterested story on politics or culture.

I'm pretty sure NATIONAL REVIEW has made a much swifter decline than those other two magazines. And I don't know in which sublunary realm a writer has ever written a "disinterested" story on politics and culture. He is a praiser of times not past, but nonexistent.

November 24, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterSantiago

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