[Billthedrill]

Strange article - the author is evidently unacquainted until recently with Hanson's work. He should lurk at FR more often.

[DarthMaulrulesok]

It's great that VDH is getting the recognition he richly deserves, but...didn't Athens lose? Do we really want to focus on a conflict where an admittedly imperfect democracy is destroyed by a totally militarized society?

Now that I think about it, yes we do! It could be a useful warning for us, at least the conservatives among us. (The liberals are a lost cause as far as reason and logic are concerned).

[Tolik]

We often ask around here a question if VDH has an ear in the Bush Administration. The article answers: YES!!

Victor Davis Hanson moral clarity huge BUMP  [please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to Victor Davis Hanson articles]

If you want to bookmark his articles discussed at FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/k-victordavishanson/browse

His NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp

[diotima]

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[metesky]

At a White House Christmas gathering, Bush approached him, asking, "How'm I doing?" Before the flustered Hanson could fully respond, he said, the president had assured him, "I'm not finished yet," and walked on to other guests. This pleased Hanson, whose historical heroes are decisive men ranging from the Athenian leader Pericles to Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, whose tactical brilliance at the Battle of Shiloh and brutal "March to the Sea" helped break the back of the Confederacy.

W, you da man!

[neverdem]

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[leadpenny]

Hanson first surfaced as a commentator on current events during a C-SPAN interview, and soon after launched his weekly column for the National Review, which quickly attracted the Bush administration's attention.

Mark your calendar! 07Mar04, 12:00 - 3:00 P.M. Eastern Time

In Depth: Victor Davis Hanson Live on C-SPAN2's BookTV

Description: Victor Davis Hanson is the guest on Book TV's March 7 In Depth program. Mr. Hanson is the author of numerous books, including "Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece," "The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece," "Hoplites: The Ancient Greek Battle Experience," "The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization," "Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea," "Who Killed Homer? The Decline of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom," "The Soul of Battle," "The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer," "The Wars of the Ancient Greeks," Bonfire of the Humanities," Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power," "Ripples of Battle: Moments that Changed the Centuries, "An Autumn of War," "Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, " and his new book,"Between War and Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq." Victor Davis Hanson teaches classics at California State University, Fresno, and is also the Coordinator of the University's Classical Studies Program. He is a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and writes a biweekly column about contemporary culture and military history for National Review Online. Call in during the show or e-mail your questions for Mr. Hanson to booktv@c-span.org.

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[BayouCoyote]

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