Wm. F. Buckley Jr.
#1
Posted 28 February 2008 - 04:10 PM
http://latimesblogs....02/buckley.html
And to also say that that man was something else. Leave his politics out. What a mind. What a wit. What a vocabulary. Not a bad fiction writer either.
I gotta say, he had what appears to be a life well-lived. I only wish he could have had a little more of it and little better health toward the end.
Thanks for everything, Bill.
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#2
Posted 28 February 2008 - 04:45 PM
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Posted 28 February 2008 - 05:08 PM
#4
Posted 28 February 2008 - 05:38 PM
Not all of us share positive memories of his beliefs, here is a quote from just one of many who disagreed.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith never did know much about anything. But below is a link to a story about the Buckley-Galbraith debate in 1982, where Galbraith claimed that Reagan's policies would lead to severe inflation. Need I say that inflation at the time was double digit, and at it's peak?
http://www.thecrimso...aspx?ref=346304
RIP Bill.
Edited by IndexTrader, 28 February 2008 - 05:40 PM.
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Posted 28 February 2008 - 05:46 PM
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Posted 28 February 2008 - 05:57 PM
#7
Posted 28 February 2008 - 06:34 PM
And, Norton, from what I've read of Galbraith (and bear in mind that I studied economics under Jon Hughes and Joel Mokyr at NU), he's been proven wrong as well as philosophically bankrupt (IMO). I've no great respect for his work at all.
Then again, if Galbraith was as entertaining and broadly talented as Bill (whom I had many core disagreements with), I'd laud him as well.
But he wasn't. We're talking about Bill Buckley. De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
So, anyway, a few words of appreciation about an interesting and entertaining intellectual. Leave the politics at the door.
Mark
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#8
Posted 28 February 2008 - 07:06 PM
Hey, one can laud one who has passed for his accomplishments without waxing political.
And, Norton, from what I've read of Galbraith (and bear in mind that I studied economics under Jon Hughes and Joel Mokyr at NU), he's been proven wrong as well as philosophically bankrupt (IMO). I've no great respect for his work at all.
Then again, if Galbraith was as entertaining and broadly talented as Bill (whom I had many core disagreements with), I'd laud him as well.
But he wasn't. We're talking about Bill Buckley. De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
So, anyway, a few words of appreciation about an interesting and entertaining intellectual. Leave the politics at the door.
Mark
okay Mark but if someone that i will miss much more like mick jagger or teddy kennedy kicks the bucket i expect the same courtesy .
ed rader
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Posted 28 February 2008 - 07:12 PM
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#10
Posted 28 February 2008 - 07:27 PM
Edited by norton, 28 February 2008 - 07:28 PM.