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On Monday, July 18, one of the titans of postwar American conservative scholarship died. Peter Stanlis was a key figure in the revival of interest in Edmund Burke in the 1950s, and his Edmund Burke and the Natural Law was a powerful influence on Russell Kirk and other traditionalist thinkers. Stanlis also devoted much study [...]
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The great Catholic reactionary thinker Thomas Molnar passed away July 20. I had occasion to write about Molnar and his differences with Tocquevillian conservatives in February. An excellent obituary for Dr. Molnar can be found here.
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Writes Bill Kauffman, in Look Homeward, America, of Hopper’s signature film: I don’t really have to convince you that Easy Rider is a reactionary picture, do I? The only characters depicted as unqualifiably virtuous are the homesteading family, living on their own acreage, raising their own food, teaching their young. If they’re not Treichlers then [...]
Dr. Panichas, editor of Modern Age for a quarter century, died March 17. Though he shied away from the limelight, he was one of the leading traditionalist conservative literary scholars and philosophers of the past 50 years, a fact attested not only by his guidance of Modern Age, which steered away from the shoals of [...]
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The great Thomist scholar and author of the Father Dowling books died Jan. 29. His passing has been little noted in the American press, but the Scotstman has an excellent obituary here.
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Just about everything that needs to be said about Michael Jackson (RIP) was said by Michael Kinsley 25 years ago: What’s happened to Michael Jackson isn’t too different from what they used to do to young male singers in Europe a few centuries ago, to keep their voices sweet. In another way, it resembles the [...]
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From Victor Navasky’s NYT review of two books by or about William F. Buckley (thanks to Scott Lahti for an early link to the piece): It is probably no accident, as the old-left journals used to say, that both Buckley and Carey McWilliams, The Nation’s longtime editor, were fans of Albert Jay Nock, who after [...]
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Here’s the LA Times obit. My favorite Heston movie? Toss-up between “The Omega Man” and “Soylent Green.” I’d give the latter a slight edge.
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I met William F. Buckley Jr. on just a couple of occasions. He gave a talk at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis back around 2000 — one of his last campus talks. He had some spare time in his schedule, including time for a chat with my conservative group at Washington University (which is almost [...]
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I was saddened to hear of the death on Monday of E. Victor Milione. He was president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute for a quarter of a century, from 1963 to 1988; indeed, it would not be wrong to say that he built the organization. He had been one of the first scholarly young men [...]
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