He writes:
In the short-term, all this posturing brings advantage, but in the long-term, Samson-like it is bringing down the temple of our basic institutions....
Read him here.
To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
VDH on the Emmys
Victor Davis Hanson reacts to the Dixie Chicks' Emmy sweep by noting something that has been bothering me a lot lately. The persistent leftist bias of many elite institutions has created a rewards system that validates political opinions rather than actual accomplishments. The result is to gradually erode the legitimacy of those awards and the institutions that grant them.
He writes:
Read him here.
He writes:
Read him here.
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