Dancusa--though we obviously don't agree on certain issues, I find your comments to hold many relevant insights and truths. Thanks for the discussion and not resorting to calling me some dirty liberal or something to that nature.
Though I respect your high holding of Dr. Hansen, I think you should possibly consider taking multiple views into account on certain controversial foreign issues in which the truth is often lost through muddled liberal and conservative lenses. Many fine authors have specialized in refraining from digging themselves into philosophical and rhetorical understandings of history and events and yet still doing something that goes beyond the common view, yet still through a black and white lens. An example, conflicts of genocide and identity politics in many nations outside the visible moral spectrum of many Western liberals or conservatives....
Either way, thanks for the discussion so far.
I am pretty sure that Victor Davis Hansen is a democrat. That doesn't prevent him from writing great conservative analysis. Everybody has a certain bias or agenda when it comes to writing history or about any subject. The only un-biased people I can think of are umpires and referees. Thats why they are little noticed (unless they blow a call). I never heard of a book written called "Great Moderates in History".