Friday, June 15, 2012

I'm thinking the Founders would be appalled....

.....as Victor Davis Hanson gives a new--or really a very old--name for the legions of under-educated, over-indebted graduates (and non-graduates) of our higher education institutions.

Helots

Let's just hope, for the sake of our modern day Helots, that the apprentice Hoplites in DC don't remember the classical initiation ceremony into the Spartan army.  Or perhaps, some of the helots might see it as more humane than what they were used to.  Ouch!

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