Civilization in the Danger Zone (2023)

In Civilization in the Danger Zone, documentary filmmaker Gloria Z Greenfield explores through public intellectuals like Victor Davis Hanson how it is that, within one generation, liberal education has disappeared from our schools to be replaced by various forms of Marxism and other fundamentally anti-democratic ideologies like "trans-humanism." Greenfield has done so from her own American-Jewish perspective, which under normal circumstances in a color-blind and ethnically blind America, would go unremarked, as the Constitution is so heavily influenced by the Hebrew Bible. These are the thinkers that she has brought together in her wonderful film, leaving the viewer wanting more. They serve as our contemporary "Guide to the Perplexed." In addition to Professor Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, these gifted scholars and cultural critics include Kenneth L. Marcus, Larry P. Arnn, John Hinderaker, Heather Mac Donald, Moshe Koppel, Ruth Wisse, Eric Cohen, Rod Dreher, Christopher Rufo, Carol Swain, Peter Wyatt Wood, and others. Following the cold open, the film is organized in discrete but related sections: the fundamental family; the power of faith; the need for national identity; the legitimacy of national pride; the indoctrination of today's youth; the "hollowed out" university curricula; the manipulation of language and the rise of woke ideology and its doublespeak; a rising totalitarian tide aided and abetted by foreign powers; and finally, the need for clarity during a time of declining intellectual diversity.