{"id":10967,"date":"2018-02-14T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=10967"},"modified":"2018-02-14T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:44:53","slug":"02-09-18-angry-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/02-09-18-angry-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"02\/09\/18 Angry Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

From An Angry(?) Reader:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings Professor Hanson!<\/p>\n

For many years now, I have followed you on talk radio, TV interviews, YouTube videos, books and published articles. I greatly appreciate your commitment to truth, accurate history and the application of those two principles to current events. Your reasoning and observations are always clear, astute and logical. Good job!<\/p>\n

However, I consider myself one of your angry readers, because you either show no interest in or have utterly failed to create 7,969 clones of yourself and get them elected to public office (1 President, 535 Congressmen and Senators, 50 Governors and 7,383 state legislators). I know there is a big drawback to all this, but your wisdom, knowledge and understanding more than make up for your willingness to live amongst the heathen there in California.<\/p>\n

Since cloning yourself doesn\u2019t seem to be a priority for you, could you do one other thing for me? Seriously, would you shoot me a \u201cshort\u201d<\/em><\/strong> list of your favorite classical literature dealing with the nature of man, war, religion and government? I would love to read them.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

All kidding aside, thank you for allowing the rest of [us] to benefit from all your hard work. Wherever they are, your folks must be very proud of you.<\/p>\n

God bless,<\/p>\n

JHL<\/p>\n

____________________<\/p>\n

John H. Lester<\/p>\n

Attorney at Law<\/p>\n

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Dear Not Angry Reader at All John Lester,<\/strong><\/p>\n

For your list: Thucydides, the so-called Old Oligarch, Plato, Apology<\/em>, Aristotle, Politics<\/em>, Sophocles Antigone<\/em>, Euripides Bacchae<\/em>, Virgil Eclogues<\/em> and Aeneid<\/em>, Tacitus Annals<\/em>, Petronius Satyricon<\/em>, Horace Odes<\/em> I-III.<\/p>\n

Everyone must know his limitations; mine are being somewhat of a duskolos<\/em> and recluse out on the farm. I would be a terrible politician, largely because they must have unusual patience, be on call 24\/7, know how to dress well and appear professional, possess superhuman energy and health, consort with the media, and enjoy city life\u2014but most importantly they so often have sacrificed precious time to read and write and think, given the demands put upon them. And, of course, their families cannot quite come first given their time away from home. I say all that partly in admiration of their sacrifices.<\/p>\n

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Victor Hanson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From An Angry(?) Reader: Greetings Professor Hanson! For many years now, I have followed you on talk radio, TV interviews, YouTube videos, books and published articles. I greatly appreciate your commitment to truth, accurate history and the application of those two principles to current events. Your reasoning and observations are always clear, astute and logical. 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I usually ignore them;today\u2019s on Nunes was pathetic. Mr. Hanson,you are a fraud and in a just world you\u2019d be condemned to occupy a spot in that special place down below where it\u2019s always hot... Delusional is\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11754,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-04-02-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":10967,"position":1},"title":"Angry Reader 04-02-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Dear Mr. Hanson, though your academic accreditations appear substantial, your view of history seems almost deliberately moronic. I generally don\u2019t like to wade into a debate with an ad hominem; but defending George Bush and his disastrous military policies?? The only rational explanations are intentional distortion\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11303,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/07-30-18-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":10967,"position":2},"title":"07-30-18 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Subject: NATO Maybe it\u2019s my old age but you seem to be contradicting yourself. You explain quite correctly how useless it is and then suggest that you think strengthen it is a good idea??? Looks like trump wants to dump it knowing Germany will never pony\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12130,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-01-09-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":10967,"position":3},"title":"Angry Reader 01-09-2020","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Subject: The Dangers of\u2026YOU Mr. Hanson, It appears that they let just about anyone submit an opinion even a Stanford grad. I guess you didn\u2019t have what it takes to get into Harvard. You are obviously a Republican and that is not a good thing right\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13052,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":10967,"position":4},"title":"The Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers From an Angry Reader, \"Keep your shit views to yourself.\u00a0 You disgust me - go kiss trumps ass somewhere else.\u00a0 The armed insurrection was leaderless and officer Sicknick only was \"allegedly\" murdered?\u00a0 ??! You're delirious you sick fuck\"-- Deb Chapple\u00a0\u00a0 Dear Really, Really Angry\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 70 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 70 comments","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-angry-reader\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11650,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-02-05-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":10967,"position":5},"title":"Angry Reader 02-05-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: You, sir, are a traitor, To call the FBI and the representatives of the United States \"Bolsheviks\" when the POTUS you seek to defend consistently lies about contacts with GRU officials; whose chief strategist Stephen Bannon claimed to be a Leninist because he was advocating the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10971,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions\/10971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}