Stumbling over stubble, or misusing Darwin, number 456
By admin | February 29th, 2008Roger Kimball
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Weekend roundup of Encounter authors in print and online media:
The Unbought Grace of Life, City Journal, by Myron Magnet
“When I saw a headline a few months ago, A WORLD WITHOUT BILL BUCKLEY, my blood ran cold. A smaller, drabber world indeed, I thought. The appropriately adulatory text (a book review, as I recall) calmed me down, but anyone who had seen Bill recently knew that the smaller, drabber world was at hand…”
William F. Buckley Jr., Remembered, FrontPage Magazine, by David Horowitz
“Dear Bill,
It’s been twenty years since we both went up to Dartmouth to speak in support of the Darthmouth Review students whose battle was an early harbinger of the conservative tide that it is sweeping the campuses today…”
Man of Manifold Marvels, National Review Online, by Norman Podhoretz
“Nearly half a century ago, when I had only just joined the staff of Commentary as a lowly assistant editor, I scored a great coup by persuading Dwight Macdonald, one of the liveliest and wittiest polemicists of the day, to write an article about the first ten issues of a new magazine called National Review...”
Buckley Wasn’t a Conservative Catholic, Get Religion, by Mark Stricherz
“The death of William F. Buckley Jr. raises the question of what journalists mean when they use words such as conservative and liberal. Buckley was a Catholic and a conservative. But was he a Catholic conservative?…”
and more…
Global news is generally bad news. On the surface, the story is about war, poverty, ethnic and sectarian strife. Democracy movements advanced by the U.S. government seem to be stalled or even reversed. Yet just below the surface, more hopeful trends are brewing.
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