Wednesday, February 27, 2008
"For Me, It Started with Buckley" [Iain Murray]
CEI’s Marlo Lewis reflects on Mr. Buckley's personal influence on him:
Though vastly outnumbered in high school by peers and teachers mouthing cliches of socialism, appeasement, and moral relativism, I confidently debated any and all comers, armed with facts and arguments from National Review, Firing Line, and a slew of books by WFB and other NR columnists, and emboldened by his courage, brilliance, and wit.
Very likely I would not have read Mises and Hayek in my teens, attended Claremont McKenna College (a school hospital to conservative students and faculty), studied there with Harry Jaffa (the great Lincoln and Aristotle scholar whom Buckley esteemed), or pursued graduate studies in political philosophy had WFB not opened my young eyes to the perils of statism and the excitement of the war of ideas.
Also, some reactions from across the pond.
02/27 03:15 PM
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