War And History

This week, the Hoover Institution's video series, Uncommon Knowledge, hosted by Peter Robinson, features Victor Davis Hanson discussing his new book, Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern. Hanson is an outstanding scholar who sees the American experience the same way Kurt Vonnegut's alien Tralfamadorians saw time: like viewing the Rocky Mountains. Few historians have such a holistic grasp of the context of western civilization and what it means to be in this great national experiment we call the United States. Here's your link.