Nevertheless his area of focus in his graduate work was Modern European History, his later alternate history novels focus on the Pacific Theater for that matter, he may simply have gotten bored of it, God knows my own specialty when I was in grad school is no longer of particular interest to me either. His thesis was on the Belgian government's influence on education in the Congo, so I'm going to take for granted he is heavily versed on modern European history.



Cynical, yeah, I think so, I'm not a big Newt fan, though I think he was badly maligned by the press back in the 90s, his various efforts at resurgence have not met with a lot of favor from many core conservatives and I'm no exception, I like him, but I wish he'd retire for real. The comment was made more towards Camilla's comments though. I've met a lot of politicians who were deep thinkers and a lot of professors who weren't, most who are both are though, and whether one likes what they say or agrees isn't particularly relevant to the claim. I don't much care for Karl Marx or Ayn Rand, both were deep thinkers.