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2020-04-25 Science & Technology

The scab & the wound beneath by Victor Davis Hanson

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 08:34|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 In times like these, for once it was deemed wiser to live in Sparta or in rural Utah than in the bustle of cosmopolitan Athens or Manhattan.

A key takeaway, but only one of several.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-25 09:01|| 2020-04-25 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 I want all hipsters to bitterly cling to their beloved vibrant urban neighborhoods. To the death.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-25 09:37|| 2020-04-25 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 What a great article. I look forward to AOC's dissenting essay about Thucydides.

Posted by Matt 2020-04-25 10:46|| 2020-04-25 10:46|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Schnork!

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-25 11:01|| 2020-04-25 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 A key takeaway, but only one of several.

Perhaps not of Athens, GA.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-25 12:29|| 2020-04-25 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 I agree with grom about A War Like No Other. It took me a while to accept that it was written like no other history book (I ever read).

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-25 12:41|| 2020-04-25 12:41|| Front Page Top

#7 VDH tears them all a new one.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-25 12:45|| 2020-04-25 12:45|| Front Page Top

#8 #6's not me.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 12:47|| 2020-04-25 12:47|| Front Page Top

#9 The book ref was mine. It's a great book. VDH makes history accessible and entertaining

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-25 13:06|| 2020-04-25 13:06|| Front Page Top

#10 ^To my eye, you & Glenmore have the same color.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 13:16|| 2020-04-25 13:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Fred assigns the colors. Mine is light green. His has blue, but yeah, they're close

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-25 14:09|| 2020-04-25 14:09|| Front Page Top

#12 VDH is a national treasure. An honest, wise and courageous man who refuses to partake in the academic / media / political Shitshows.

There must be a classical figure he resembles but I lack his erudition and can't think of the right one...

Posted by Lex 2020-04-25 14:14|| 2020-04-25 14:14|| Front Page Top

#13 Procopius?

Posted by Clem 2020-04-25 14:16|| 2020-04-25 14:16|| Front Page Top

#14 #11 Yea, well, my ex wife tells me I've partial color blindness.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 14:22|| 2020-04-25 14:22|| Front Page Top

#15 #8 - missed the color, in my excitement to agree.

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-25 17:15|| 2020-04-25 17:15|| Front Page Top

#16 "...that in terms of deaths per million, a 330-million-person America was not “first,” given that almost all European countries, with the exception of Germany, had suffered a far higher fatality to population rate."

That is not true though. Only 9 European countries (11 if you want to include San Marino and Andorra) have a higher fatality to population rate.

Posted by European Conservative 2020-04-25 17:32|| 2020-04-25 17:32|| Front Page Top

#17 ^So, how many countries in Western Europe?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 17:36|| 2020-04-25 17:36|| Front Page Top

#18 ... and when we say "countries", we mean real countries with a beer, an airline, and a football team/nukes.

Posted by SteveS 2020-04-25 18:31|| 2020-04-25 18:31|| Front Page Top

#19

Posted by Thruque Scourge of the Veps9595 2020-04-25 20:31|| 2020-04-25 20:31|| Front Page Top

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