The world turned upside down

Though I would have thought they had little in common, my parents and the parents of Victor Davis Hanson both inculcated remarkably similar lessons in liberalism and liberality in their kids. The lessons still apply, but viewed in their light it appears as though the world has turned upside down: “When I was young…”:

The world has changed. What was once liberal is now illiberal, and the old progressivism has become mean-spirited and opportunistic. What was once idealistic is seen as calculating. When I read about the

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