Great, great article.
We're blessed with true heavyweights on our side - Steyn, Hanson, David Warren, Coulter...
I can't think of one on their side that comes close to these!
Interestingly one of the most common attacks by Euroepan and British pundits on VDH, which I had foreseen and which has been proven true, is that "he is a classics professor, but he is ignorant of modern European history and I don't trust anything he says about Europe and the world post 1648!".
But I beg to differ from them. After all, human nature is unchanging and lessons from classics are equally applicable to modern world as human nature is still the same. And besides, from what I have read he is equally knowledgable about Napoleon and German history (he is good buddies with many near-modern and modern history academics eg Steven Ozment) so I think the attack by Euro pundits is invalid.
The skill of the conservative writer is amplified by the soundness of the position they advocate. But no matter how well a liberal writes his whine, it is still no more than a whine.