1 posted on
07/30/2009 7:45:43 AM PDT by
Tolik
2 posted on
07/30/2009 7:46:38 AM PDT by
Tolik
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3 posted on
07/30/2009 7:47:24 AM PDT by
Tolik
To: SunkenCiv
you might be interested ping
4 posted on
07/30/2009 7:53:47 AM PDT by
Tolik
To: Tolik
I have been traveling as a lecturer on a Hillsdale College Byzantium Cruise (from Venice to Athens, with several stops in the Adriatic, Mediterranean, and Aegean) for the last few daysThat is what I call a dream vacaction. Cruising the Med listening to VDH.
5 posted on
07/30/2009 7:55:54 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Tolik
I thought VDH's narrative about the decline of Venice was a bit thin. He completely omits the defeat of Constantinople and the Sultan's prohibition of trade between Christendom and Islam. Those two events just might had had something to do with the decline of Venice. Yes, the rise of the Atlantic states eclipsed Venetian trade; but the Atlantic states arose because of the the Sultan's embargo and the need for a new route to the east.
And I think all the neoconservatives, including VDH, have a fanciful view of republican government. Civil societies create republics, not the other way around. Venice was not great because it was a republic. It became a republic because it was great.
9 posted on
07/30/2009 8:07:57 AM PDT by
SeeSharp
To: Tolik
Thanks for posting. Bump for later read.
10 posted on
07/30/2009 8:10:50 AM PDT by
khnyny
("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
To: Tolik
A great column!! Thanks for posting and sharing.
11 posted on
07/30/2009 8:21:28 AM PDT by
madinmadtown
(Nuclear...better to mispronounce it, than not understand it.)
To: Tolik
Looks like VDH has become addicted to blogging. Issuing reports to his legion of fans
13 posted on
07/30/2009 8:28:41 AM PDT by
dennisw
(Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
To: Tolik
15 posted on
07/30/2009 8:41:47 AM PDT by
Savage Beast
(“Karma is a bitch.” -jrg)
To: Tolik
To: Tolik
The notion that the average American youth20 hrs a week before the video game or TV console, a product of a therapeutic education that seeks to ensure that he is sensitive rather than educatedwill inherit the lifestyle of his fathers seems to me dubious. This is a great analysis of our present situation. VDH at his best.
22 posted on
07/30/2009 12:16:53 PM PDT by
oldbrowser
(This is not an administration, it's a crime syndicate.)
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23 posted on
07/30/2009 5:39:17 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: Tolik
Our cynical intellectual elites are becoming ever more postmodern even as the undereducated majority becomes premodern.Money quote!
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