Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history -- comments, resources and discussion.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Blather or insight?
Read Michael Vlahos' The Fall of Modernityover at The American Conservative site -- if you can get through it -- and make up your own mind.
1 comment:
Anonymous
said...
Steve:
Well, I got through the first three paragraphs. . . .and skipped much of the rest. Because the guy does not appear to know the histories of any of the states he's "blathering" about. And that was just the first three paragraphs. As for the rest of it, it seems to be an amalgam of bad analogies and his personal dislikes. Yikes. Anne Gilbert
1 comment:
Steve:
Well, I got through the first three paragraphs. . . .and skipped much of the rest. Because the guy does not appear to know the histories of any of the states he's "blathering" about. And that was just the first three paragraphs. As for the rest of it, it seems to be an amalgam of bad analogies and his personal dislikes. Yikes.
Anne Gilbert
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