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I think a good description of 2026, culturally, economically, socially, and politically, is that we are in a modern medieval world.

One part of our society is advancing at lightning speed into the future and progressing. But the other part is regressing, and regressing at a phenomenal pace back to what I would call the medieval period.

America has never been richer, more technologically advanced, or more capable of solving basic problems, yet its cities are increasingly plagued by crime, disease, homelessness, and public disorder, and members of its “progressive” class continue to excuse blatant killers, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

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In a retort to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's refusal of a recent trade deal with the United States, President Trump renamed Lake Ontario to "Lake America."

This political renaming of natural landmarks and wonders is not original to Trump. Barack Obama renamed Mount McKinley. Earl Warren's name was stripped from the Legal Institute. Even hundreds of years ago, Romans renamed landmarks.

Trump is only reacting to a long tradition, one mostly embarked on by the Left in recent years.

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Canada’s growing confrontation with the United States is about much more than just tariffs. Trade imbalances, Chinese goods entering the American market through Canada, taxes on U.S. companies, and Mark Carney’s political strategy have pushed relations with Washington to a new low.

At the same time, Canada faces weak economic growth, enormous immigration pressures, separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec, and continued dependence on the United States for its defense. Picking a fight with America will not solve those problems.

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It's August, so we have the annual debate over the dropping of two atomic bombs, one on August 6, the uranium bomb called "Little Boy" that was dropped on the dual-use target, military and industrial Japanese city of Hiroshima, and then three days later on Nagasaki with a plutonium bomb.

“The dropping of the atomic bomb, it was not a satanic enterprise...Good men made a bad weapon to stop far worse men from killing innocents,” argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

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Most Americans used to be supportive of legal immigration because most immigrants loved the country that welcomed them in. Today’s immigrants, such as Hasan Piker and Ilhan Omar, are somehow ungrateful yet refuse to return to their home country.

“You set one foot in here or your parents set one foot in here, and immediately you lodge complaints against the gracious host that welcomed you in and welcomed you in with security, prosperity, and freedom that you did not have.”
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