VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: A Tour Through Recession America. “In one of the most highly regulated, highly taxed regions in America, noncompliance at every level seems the norm. . . . I am as worried about the elite upscale yuppie as the poor illegal alien. The former have lost almost all connection with physical labor, the physical world, or the ordeal that civilization endures to elevate us from the savagery of nature.”