{"id":74,"date":"2013-02-04T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com.108-166-28-151.mdgnetworks.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2013-04-23T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:32:22","slug":"bruce-s-thornton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-contributors\/bruce-s-thornton\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce S. Thornton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com.108-166-28-151.mdgnetworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Thornton.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"75\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-contributors\/bruce-s-thornton\/thornton\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Thornton.jpeg?fit=150%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Thornton\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Thornton.jpeg?fit=150%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Thornton.jpeg?fit=150%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-75\" alt=\"Thornton\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com.108-166-28-151.mdgnetworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Thornton.jpeg?resize=150%2C225\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Bruce S. Thornton, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, grew up on a cattle ranch in Fresno County, California. He received his BA in Latin from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1975, as well as his PhD in comparative literature\u2013Greek, Latin, and English\u2013in 1983. Thornton is currently a professor of classics and humanities at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of nine books on a variety of topics, including\u00a0<i>Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization; Searching for Joaquin: Myth, Murieta, and History in California;<\/i>\u00a0with Victor Davis Hanson,\u00a0<i>Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age;<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Decline and Fall: Europe\u2019s Slow-Motion Suicide.<\/i>\u00a0His numerous essays and reviews on Greek culture and civilization and their influence on Western civilization, as well as on other contemporary political and educational issues, have appeared in both scholarly journals and magazines such as the\u00a0<i>New Criterion, Commentary, National Review,<\/i>\u00a0the\u00a0<i>Weekly Standard,<\/i>\u00a0and the<i>Claremont Review of Books.<\/i>\u00a0Thornton is also a regular contributor to online magazines such as\u00a0<i>City Journal<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Advancing a Free Society<\/i>. He has lectured at many colleges and universities and at venues such as the Smithsonian Institute, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Army War College, and the Air Force Academy; he has also appeared on television on the History Channel and ABC\u2019s\u00a0<i>Politically Incorrect<\/i>. His latest book, published in March 2011, is titled\u00a0<i>The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama&#8217;s America.<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce S. Thornton, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, grew up on a cattle ranch in Fresno County, California. He received his BA in Latin from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1975, as well as his PhD in comparative literature\u2013Greek, Latin, and English\u2013in 1983. Thornton is currently a professor of classics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":80,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P466Sb-1c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/about-vdh\/","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":0},"title":"About Victor Davis Hanson","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. 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