“Hanson is a great thinker”
I’ll pass. I agree with what Paul Gottfried and the Chronicles crowd have said about VDH for years. VDH is a sloppy historian and a neocon hack. Even people who know his specialty, ancient Greece, say he gets away with all sorts of errors because the majority of us don’t know any better and just accept what he says at face value.
I don’t know anything about his specialties or his expertise in them, but I’ve found his commentary on current events and social issues thoughtful and compelling.