Victor Davis Hanson: "All Fall Down"

PJ Media ^ | 05/06/2012 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Eccl 10:2]

The temple of postmodern liberalism was rocked these last few weeks, as a number of supporting columns and buttresses simply crashed, leaving the entire edifice wobbling.

[Jeff Chandler]

It’s odd. When I hear VDH on the Hugh Hewitt show, I can’t get enough of his brilliance. When I read his essays, they seem rambling.

[NonValueAdded]

depressing because it is so right

[98ZJ USMC]

degreed illiterates Best. Description. Evah!

[98ZJ USMC]

To a point, I agree. Perhaps, it’s just because I have been reading him so long that I can follow his literary train. His writing style, at least to me, brings complicated concepts down to an easy understanding.

[Aevery_Freeman]

I like VDH because he is usually calm and intellectual in his critiques - this was scathing, brutal and spot-on.

My wife says it's because of the full moon!

[Dave W]

What a completely ignorant comment - a commodity of increasing frequency at FR. Reread what you think you read.

[Dave W]

Gosh...even when given a chance, you choose to remain a colossal ignoramus.

[Aevery_Freeman]

...this is like saying that an exploding abdomen is a symptom of a deeper medical problem. At some point it doesn't matter. The Van Jones, Elizabeth Warren types are polyps in the festering colon of modern progressive politics...

Thanks, Bill. That is so beautiful, it almost makes me cry.

The perfect analogy for this colon-clogging clan. (sniff)

[aruanan]

In the book "The Wars of the Ancient Greeks: And the Invention of Western Military Culture" he writes that "that war criminal LeMay ......" Which was good enough for me to return the book at that point to the library.

Why is it that the only place that book title and "LeMay" shows up on a Google search is your post on FR but the terms "war criminal LeMay" and "Victor Davis Hanson" produces the result exactly as others above have quoted it?

[ImpBill]

Perhaps one of the best sentences I have read in a long time -

"... statist redistribution and intrusion are an insidious process, no longer specific just to Democrats, but bound up in the growing affluence and leisure of the West—both serving its various needs of alleviating guilt to the masses, subsidizing half the nation, and providing much envied power and lucre to a highly educated and technocratic elite who have little talent for acquiring either in the private sector."

[Jack Hydrazine]

The media co-conspirators also need to be shown the door.

[Oklahoma]

I suspect SkyDancer’s dislike of Victor Davis Hanson has less to do with what he claims he wrote of Curtis LeMay and more to do with something else. Maybe he can come clean and admit what that “something” is.

[SkyDancer]

Because you used Google. Get the book. Read it. Somewhere in the third or fourth chapter he calls LeMay a war criminal.

[Army Air Corps]

Bookmark.

[Randy Larsen]

Skydancer is a she if my eyes are correct.

[saywhatagain]

"Cross the border and you in theory can go from an impoverished Mexican national that lived a wretched material existence thanks to grandees in Mexico City to a “minority” with vicarious claims against the American system who is suddenly eligible for oppression-based, affirmative action recompense."

Amazing how just stating the obvious sounds so brilliant.

Enjoyed even more by your succinct and apt discription of the usual suspects. . .

"pack of degreed illiterates" and "intellectual weeds. enjoyed/agree your comments

[SkyDancer]

Gosh - when someone who says they read the book cannot come up with the comment he made. Golly.

[tumblindice]

Gee, I dunno.
I bought a book on the war in the pacific (WWII) and the English author wrote that American pilots in P-38s “murdered” General Yamamoto.
I was angry but too lazy to return it (and to get it now) so, “War is hell” and all that. There’s a lot to be said about the winners calling the shots, as Kurt “Panzer” Meyer found out.
So I’m sort of on his side and care enough to post something, but not really, and wasn’t this supposed to be about an article Victor Davis Hanson wrote?
He’s got his s*** wrapped in a tight little ball. I’ll read it later. Oh no, the apathy is hitting me in waves.

Oh, getting any rain there in God’s Country? Never mind.

[SkyDancer]

Since the post was about VDH I just commented on a book he wrote and his mentioning of LeMay. It was a “just saying” and people got their knickers in a twist.

[Lancey Howard]

"Max Power. He's the man!"

"So... How did you come up with the name, 'Max Power'"?
"I don't know... (shrug) ...I saw it on a hair dryer."