Historian Victor Davis Hanson warns that the same forces that collapsed Greece and Rome – debt, tribalism, decadence and declining virtue – are again pushing the modern West toward a new Dark Age.

The Dark Ages is a term generally applied to the early Middle Ages in Western Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture ...