The Dying Citizen How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

Victor Davis Hanson, James Edward Thomas

eAudio - 2021

The New York Times bestselling author explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship Most of human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, or tribes. The concept of the "citizen," an idea we take for granted, is historically quite rare - and was, until recently, amongst America's most profoundly cherished ideals. But without shock treatment, warns historian and conservative political commentator Victor Davis Hanson, American citizenship as we have known it for well over two centuries may soon vanish. In The Dying Citizen, Hanson outlines the forces that have brought us to the twilight of American citizenship, and led to the deeply fractured politics of the present era. Over the... last half-century, numerous forces from both above and below have conspired to undermine the value we place in the idea of citizenship - and our vigilance in protecting it. To be self-governing, citizens must be... more