Eighty years ago, Will Durant started writing The Story of Civilization. About 65 years later, I started reading it. This seemed right. If a man could devote 45 years of his life to writing the history of the world, I could devote two years of my life to reading it. More than a decade after finishing the eleven-volume Story of Civilization, I have finally gotten around to writing about it. The October 5, 2009 issue of National Review, available now to those with a digital subscription, features my lengthy article on Will and Ariel Durant, the apostate historians. Read it here @ National Review if you have a digital subscription. Get with the program, or just buy it at your local newstand, if you aren't digitally subscribed.

Is there a part in there about how nothing good has EVER come from underestimating Russia?

There probably is, but those thoughts never occur to the Apologizer in Chief and his merry band of community and world activist advisers, staffers and handlers.

So it all just seems to be going according to plan.

A great article, I just read it on Lexis. One of the few pieces of quality work at National Review these days, it definitely makes me interested to check out the works.