VDH Delivers Again

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One of my very favorite writers is Victor Davis Hanson. He is a professor of history- and he specializes in military history. Very, very smart man. Here's his latest.

[[ Sometimes even the English language is without the right word to describe a commonplace occurrence. We don't, for example, have a term quite like the German schadenfreude: "Taking malicious delight in someone else's misfortune." The Arab world has no real word to denote constitutional democracy, and so uses our Anglicized form of the Greek dêmokratia. ]] (LINK to column)

Definitely worth the read... unless, of course, your eyes are all tired out from reading my earlier manifesto.

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