{"id":510,"date":"2007-11-15T09:47:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T13:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2007-11-15T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T13:47:15","slug":"dont-know-much-about-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t know much about history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloodthirsty historian Victor Davis Hanson might be familiar to some who read this blog.  It turns out that in addition to being a <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?cat=47\">rather sloppy thinker<\/a>, he&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/altercation\/200711140006#4\">a downright crappy historian<\/a>.  What makes a good historian?  Mastery of facts.  <\/p>\n<p>For instance:<\/p>\n<p>>Because this is my wrap-up essay, I must apologize for the disjointed nature of some of the material I am bringing up now. We have already noted how, when writing about his own period of specialization, the Classicist Victor Davis Hanson is both sloppy and inconsistent. (Mixing up, for example, the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens, who died at Adrianople in 378 AD, with Emperor Valerian, who was captured by the Sassanids in 260 AD. This is akin to confusing the current conflict we are in with the Spanish-American war because, you know, they&#8217;re pretty close in time.) But mistakes like these do not really annoy me as much as another problem, the lack of documentation in Carnage and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing, as well as previous installments, is well worth the read.  Makes one wonder whether we ought to have a special category for <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?cat=53\">Hoover Institution Scholars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloodthirsty historian Victor Davis Hanson might be familiar to some who read this blog. It turns out that in addition to being a rather sloppy thinker, he&#8217;s also a downright crappy historian. What makes a good historian? Mastery of facts. For instance: >Because this is my wrap-up essay, I must apologize for the disjointed nature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t know much about history<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-that-are-false","category-vdhanson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}