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The Real Reason Golden Ages Collapse—and How the U.S. Can Avoid It

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31.12.2025

Freedom

John Stossel | 12.31.2025 12:30 AM

While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, "We're a nation in decline."

Now that he's president, the left agrees.

"We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire," says Cornell West.

Are the predictors of doom correct? Will America collapse like so many civilizations before us?

If we don't learn from history, says historian Johan Norberg, that might happen.

"It's a clash within every civilization on whether they should keep going, be open to innovation and progress, or whether they should retreat and decline," he says in my new video.

His book, Peak Human: What We Can Learn from........

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