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“There is no certainty as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases…[that] there is any corresponding advance in wisdom or morality, much less radical improvement in innate human nature.” – Victor Davis Hanson

In this absorbing book by historian Victor Davis Hanson, he looks to our past to remind us of the long-term consequences of war. We are also reminded of how power in the wrong hands can lead to the genocide of entire peoples. In an era where many world leaders have forgotten the ripple effects of war which endure for centuries, and treat it like another government program, perhaps we should look to our ancestors and the fates that befell them.