Military historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson, speaking Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation, drew striking parallels between the empires of the past and the modern United States.
Hanson, a Daily Signal contributor, contended that, contrary to the assertions of the Left, “walls do work,” and that the United States is in need of cultural cohesion and consolidation.
“When we look at borders in antiquity, walls do really work, in the sense that they’re never designed for impenetrability,” he said. “They’re designed to allow fewer people to defend territory more efficiently.”
In Hanson’s view, empires and world powers occasionally go through periods in which they need to consolidate their realms in order to create stability at home.
Hanson spoke of a period in the Roman Empire when…
