For the past few weeks, I have been watching a number of youtube videos, discussions of various sorts. I stumbled rather by accident into the lectures by Prof. Victor Davis Hanson, a military historian. His articulation of western civilization is superb.
In the video "Why Greece Matters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-pOwv6ZIbM he describes in great detail the various aspects of modern western culture which find their origins in the Greek city states.
In a presentation at the Hoover Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go8uMp-gUsY he explains a number of the foreign conflicts currently being waged around the globe as the Greeks woul