[robowombat]

A hostile but well written analysis of an author regularly posted on FR.

[Diddle E. Squat]

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[omega4412]

"Wealth is not extracted from unfree men by the free; it is produced by the labor of all men."

OK, so wealth is produced by the labor of all men, slave and free. And then the wealth produced by slaves is taken by the slaveowners. I fail to see the distinction.

[meadsjn]

VDH related bump.

[Amerigomag]

Hanson must be gaining influence.

The first sign that you are effective against the left is the commencement of character attacks and this is among the first I've seen published. Expect more.

The other interesting note is the glaring absence of any reference to what will surely be judged to be Hanson's most influential work, contrary to this hackneyed authors opinion, a treatise on the 20th century, Mexican invasion of California.

My suspicion is that this incipient discredidation has nothing to do with the Greeks and the middle east but rather is an attempt to blunt the truth and popularity of the "Mexifornia" publication.

[x]

Between 1988 and 1993 Hanson wrote what is likely to remain his most important book, The Other Greeks: the Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization (Free Press, 1995). It is an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of classical Greece: the achievement of a lifetime, really, though produced by a man still in his thirties.

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At this point in his career Hanson was only forty-two years old and little known outside specialist circles. He had already achieved more than most scholars do in a lifetime. He could have rested on his laurels; perhaps he should have.

That is true. Unfortunately, after that it's pretty much been downhill for Hanson. And indeed, after these sentence it's downhill all the way for Devlin as well. Hanson at least had some real accomplishments to his credit before he convinced himself that he was some sort of military genius and set himself up as a propagandist. Devlin is a less accomplished, petty crank. Hanson's demonstrated that he can think when he wants to, but Devlin just seems to be repeating the fashionable buzzwords of his cult.

[Noumenon]

"The American military, while powerful, is a force designed for conventional fighting."

That statement alone displays the author's ignorance of both the transformation of war and the American military. In his haste to sneer at VDH, he trips over his own distaste for Western civilization. He should try reading Ralph Peters' and Martin VanCreveld's works.

[lainde]

bump for weekend!

[Tolik]

Critical, sometimes very critical, but indeed well written analysis of Hanson's work.

Victor Davis Hanson PING

[tpaine]

If the valleys of Dark Age Greece had been inhabited by the present citizens of Equatorial Guinea, whose average IQ is said to be 59, the result would not have been the classical city-state, self-rule under law, tragedy, philosophy, and the Parthenon.

Hanson, unfortunately, has milked the "antiracial" aspect of his own thesis for a great deal more than it is worth.
He never misses an opportunity to reiterate that Western Civilization is a matter of "culture, not race"—as if informed racialists were unaware of anything besides biology.

The truth, of course, is that writers for publications such as this one are interested in race because of their concern for Western culture. And whatever Hanson may think, race is no exception to the rule that one ought to know something about a subject before endeavoring to instruct others.

Sadly, Hanson knows less about racial differences than I do about raisin production.

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Raisins? -- I'd say our author has a vast knowledge of sour grapes, along with his obvious racism.
-- 59 is the 'average' IQ in a country of over half a million? Mindboggling. Where does nasty crap like this come from?

[tpaine]

A Class War (Victor Davis Hanson)

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[SunkenCiv]

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[Yaelle]

Hope to read this later bookmark.