Historian Victor Davis Hanson asks this question, for RealClearPolitics, “Can the dark ages return?”Spoiler alert, he concludes there is considerable evidence it could do just that.
Hanson marshals the evidence that our Western civilization is exhibiting several of the same signs of decay the late Roman Empire had, before Europe sank into the 500 years of societal retrogression we call the Dark Ages.
I hope you join me in wishing that he is unduly alarmist in this view. Sadly, all our wishing won’t make it so.
