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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (18063)2/5/2002 8:12:07 PM
From: tekboy  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hanson is an example of a larger type: a serious scholar who often writes outside his specialty about larger or current issues. His work on classical military history is quite important (I was a classicist before I was a policy wonk), and has made a major contribution to that field. He has gone beyond that to expound on military history more generally, and recently to current politics and anything under the sun. The further he goes from classics, the less authority he deserves to have.

That doesn't mean he's necessarily wrong, just that when he starts opining about the price of tea in China (or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), he's just another guy on a soapbox, not a professional talking about his own area of expertise.

Others who have trod a similar path, and whose scholarly and popular contributions should be evaluated differently, include Donald Kagan, Paul Kennedy, Thomas Sowell, Glenn Loury, and David Gelernter.

tb@thoughtpolice.com
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