THEY RARELY NAME NAMES

War Whore Victor Davis Hanson writes this absurdity in the NRO:

3) In academic circles the last two decades, pirates have been romanticized in a variety of contexts—as in pirates being contrarian individualists, admirable anarchists, Marxist redistributionists, sexually ambiguous, cross-dressing, transgendered libertines, and Lotus-eater-like sensualists, rather than as murderous criminals. Who knows, maybe such esoteric theorizing has filtered down to the U.S. State Department.

Notice that VD doesn't mention even one source to back up this idiotic claim. Even Crazy Davy Horowitz is better than that.