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.
What a lame response! They can't argue the substance so they disparage the messanger - evidence that Hanson has them pegged right, (and behind their stuffy facade, they know it, too!)