Every time I come across a reference to Victor Davis Hanson's work, it seems to me (as a lefty, European non-historian) so ridiculously ideological, archaic and frankly racist that I can't believe that he's actually a bona fide classical historian. What's the deal? Is his work on classical and military history considered mainstream in those fields? Was it when it was published? Do contemporary historians really think there's any merit to his idea that the West dominates the world stage because of "superior values"?