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Historical Complexity & The Need for Nuance

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Published July 25, 2024

Victor Davis Hanson cautions students against the “good” and “evil” dichotomy promoted by woke ideology, insisting for a more nuanced approach that acknowledges the complexity of human beings and their actions. Without understanding human complexity, everything can become categorically good or categorically bad. Such judgement by contemporary standards that ignores the context of the past has led to the toppling of statues, renaming of schools, and risks deeper erasure of American History.

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a classicist, and military historian. He is the author of hundreds of articles, book reviews, and newspaper editorials on Greek, agrarian, and military history and essays on contemporary culture.

Check out more from Victor Davis Hanson:

  • Read "How California's Paradise Become Our Purgatory" from Victor Davis Hanson here.
  • Watch "American vs. European Conservatism" with Victor Davis Hanson here.
  • Read The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America from Victor Davis Hanson here.

 

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