Elderly man in glasses speaking in front of bookshelves filled with various titles, including works by Victor Davis Hanson, with family photos in the background.

Elderly man in glasses speaking in front of bookshelves filled with various titles, including works by Victor Davis Hanson, with family photos in the background.

US Historian Victor Davis Hanson was on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to talk about where the United States is at its 250th year as a nation.

“How do you think we are doing as a country?” Bream asked.

“I think we are doing pretty well. Our Constitution has been under a stress test lately, but it’s durable. It’s the oldest Constitutional Republic in the world right now,” Hanson said.

“As a historian, I always look at the historical barometers of a healthy society, and they are pretty fundamental. Fuel, we are the biggest producer of oil and gas in the history of civilization. Food, we are the largest food producer,” Hanson continued.

“Our military recruitment is up. We are starting to stress quantity and different types of procurement in weaponry,” Hanson said.

“Our fertility rate Shannon has gone back up to about 1.71. It’s not where it should at the millennium. That is a good barometer,” Hanson explained.

“I think most of our worries are about unity. I think there is a little requiescence of tribalism,” Hanson continued.

“We need to get back to the melting pot, and kind of drop this salad bowl flirtation. So, I’m kind of worried about that, but otherwise, I think we are in good shape,” Hanson said.

Bream showed a Fox News poll about how well Democracy is working in the United States. A majority said they didn’t think it was working properly.

“We’ve got brand new Fox News polling,” Bream said.

“60 percent say they don’t think it’s working very well, or not at all,” Bream said.

“I think a lot of it is the 40 to 45 percent who are college educated. I spent 50 years of my life in the University but I must tell you that it’s no longer empirical and inductive reasoning anymore. It’s more indoctrination, especially in the social science and humanities,” Hanson explained.

“We’ve really got to address that and reintroduce civic education and basic history. We don’t teach history,” Hanson said.

“It’s very strange at how 50 million people and half of them come in here from, I’ll be frank, failed states, and yet, they are very critical of the state or nation, or culture that either they or their parents chose to embrace and come here, and yet they are so critical,” Hanson said.

“I think people have to be more explicit in their love of the country and to appreciate how different it is and how exceptional it is compared to the alternatives. And we don’t ask that of anybody anymore,” Hanson continued.

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