Joseph Frame

“the central problem with global elites remains a sort of retrograde tribalism. For all the grand talk of being citizens of the world, they really owe their limited allegiances only to like kind—westernized elites with proper credentials—or rather, to the systems and fonts of their wealth and success. They are like the royal families of Europe before World War I, incestuously related and essentially more akin to each other than to their constituents.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

“Saving the world is a much more ambitious, ennobling, and ego-gratifying project than preserving the neighborhood.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

“Cameralists frequently advocated what amounted to ‘a programme of total regulation’. Their regulations drilled deep, laying down the types of crop and trees to be cultivated, where bridges and hospitals should be built, what people should eat to keep them nourished, and so on.”
― Martyn Rady, The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

“The clever globe-trotting fox learns many things about the world, the local burrowing hedgehog only one: the essential truth that people are people, and learning how to understand and serve them begins at home with those one sees and speaks with face to face.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America