The 20th century produced many great conservative writers, but none brought together wit, erudition, and humanity on a single page so well as Joseph Sobran. He was a remarkable man: even seeming quite frail at a gathering in his honor last December, he had a mind as accurate as precision clockwork, able to recall Shakespearean verses he had memorized decades earlier. He lived T.S. Eliot’s dictum that there are no lost causes because there are no gained causes, and he hated cant and injustice. News of his death today is a terrible shock, despite his long illness. He will be missed.
Joseph Sobran, 1946-2010
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I only learned recently of Joe’s passing. I’ll never forget a line of his that I use frequently. It went something like this: “If fifty years ago there were a country that did things like the U.S. is doing today, we would declare war upon it.”
May he rest in peace.