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| William F. Buckley is Dead Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 2/27, 1:06pm | ||
| The man we all loved to hate. With friends like this... and all that... His animosity for Objectivism was clear enough. We here learned to look at metaphysical differences between the conservatives and ourselves: religion cannot justify capitalism. Merely "conserving" was not enough: conserving what? blank out... From that perspective, Objectivism is a liberal, even radical philosophy. Rand wrote at the start that we are not "conservatives" but "radicals for capitalism." This, we all know. That said, some facts remain. For myself, Buckley was my introduction to a way of thinking about society. When liberalism was at its high point in American academic culture, young and brash William F. Buckley, Jr., founded National Review. His Firing Line television program (on PBS, ironically, or appropriately enough), won awards. It was on Firing Line that I heard Joe Cobb speak of his New Individualist Review. From reading Bill Buckley's newspaper columns in the mid to late 1960s, I learned of Burke and Hobbes and Ernst van den Haag. Via his Young Americans for Freedom, I met others of my generation who were dedicated to individual liberty in a context of constitutional society. Passing me in the halls of our high school, a fellow YAFer handed me Anthem. | ||
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