Victor Davis Hanson on Hypocrisy and Civilization

June 19, 2007
Hypocrisy That Undermines Civilization
By Victor Davis Hanson

There is only a thin veneer that separates civilization from man's innate barbarity. Some 2,500 years ago the historian Thucydides once warned us about the irony of revolutionaries and insurrectionists destroying this fragile patina of culture, as if they themselves might be exempt from ever wanting it back again.

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