Why Victor Davis Hanson is Still Optimistic About America

Professor Victor Davis Hanson has studied the rise and fall of civilizations for fifty years. And his verdict on America right now might surprise you.

He's not here to tell you the country is dying. He's here to tell you it's in a Renaissance.

But VDH doesn't sugarcoat it. There are two things that genuinely alarm him: a $30 trillion national debt accumulating $3 billion in interest every single day — roughly equivalent to the entire defense budget — and a rising tribalism that is replacing the melting pot with identity-first politics that, historically, no large multi-ethnic democracy has ever survived.

The cure for both, he argues, exists. The question is whether America has the will to take it.