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Title: Victor D Hanson
Post by: Les on June 28, 2018, 10:25:20 AM

Nail.  On.  Head.  From late 2017, I know it's too long but I have a short attention span and even I watched it all the way through  :P  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VecswXsN08

Title: Re: Victor D Hanson
Post by: Nettles on July 02, 2018, 09:43:03 AM

He’s a smart cookie. My introduction to his work was his doctoral dissertation-come-academic monograph, the Western Way of War, in which he analyzed all the data (textual, iconographic, epigraphical, empirical) pertaining to the Ancient Greek hoplite form of warfare. He made some surprising conclusions that the field of Classics hasn’t accepted yet, but it was tough to argue against him because he was so thorough and was willing to reject the narrative everyone knew, in favor of what the evidence actually indicated.

I think he’s done the same with politics. One of the good guys, for sure.