More on the writer:
About Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He was a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
Lots of fancy words.
Not quite sure this is the essay of the week: mostly a verbose rewriting of what’s been on the conservative commentary menu for a year or so.
I guess we get very impressed these days when academic-sounding rhetoric meets conservatism.
Hanson is awesome generally.
Thanks for the post, though!