The Declaration of Independence and the Fight For America’s Future with Victor Davis Hanson

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  He is a fifth-generation rancher in California's San Joaquin Valley,

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  one of the country's most esteemed historians of the ancient world, and a pundit on contemporary affairs.

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  The remarkable Victor Davis Hanson on Uncommon Knowledge Now.

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  Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.

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  I'm Peter Robinson.

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  A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Victor Davis Hanson is the author of more than two dozen books,

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  including his classic study of the Peloponnesian War, A War Like No Other,

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  his history of the Second World War, which is titled The Second World Wars.

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  And his book on contemporary America, The Dying Citizen.

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  In 2020 and 2021, Dr. Hansen, who holds his doctorate in classics from Stanford right here,

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  in 2020 and 2021, he served on the president's advisory 1776 commission.

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  Victor, thank you for driving down from the valley.

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  Thank you.

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  July 4th, 1776, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal,

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  that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.

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  That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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  First question to you as a historian.

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  The flourishing of democracy in Athens in the 5th century BC, the rule of law as enshrined

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  in Justinian's code in the 6th century, Magna Carta in 1215. Where does the Declaration of Independence stand?

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  Is it a world historical event like those?

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